Art Appreciation

Son #2 had his first meeting of the after school art club yesterday.  There were eleven kids in the group.  They were taught how to make 3-D paper ornaments to decorate the school for winter.  You have to begin with a square, fold it, and then make some cuts as if you were making a snowflake, but not quite.  When the cutting is finished, you carefully unfold the paper, wrap it around, and tape it to create the 3-D effect.

How do I know all this?  Because all three kids were using a bunch of our laser printer paper, basically all night long (with breaks for eating and showering) to create them.  Many of the pages ended up as candidates for recycling because the square wasn't perfect enough (!) or mistakes were made while snipping away.  Lots of grunts and whining heard about failures, but oh when they managed to create a good one:  "Mom!  Mom!"  I'm not sure what we're going to DO with all of the ornaments they made, but hey -- they were happy.