King of the Kitchen

I have started taking James to a toddler art class at the Longmont Museum each week.  It has a different theme each week with 3-4 different craft/activity stations that go with the theme and then a painting easel, a sensory table filled with something new each week, a puppet stage, a castle play house and a center with something like ooblek, play-doh or clay.  Although James rarely has a long enough attention span to get through a complete craft at one of the stations, he has been having a good time. And the best part is that it was only $25 for a punch card for 10 classes! This week the theme was Kingdom/Royalty and 2 of the craft centers were making a crown and making a "royal robe" (I kept calling it a cape and kept getting corrected by the lady in charge-oops).  When we got home James and I made cupcakes to test out a new recipe before his birthday party.  He wanted to wear his crown and "royal robe" as we cooked.  Things started out neat enough.

And here he is about 3 minutes later (I was making the real cupcakes on the other side of the kitchen, James just had his own bowls and spoons with flour).

An even bigger hit than making a huge mess with flour was "helping" with the dishes.  By the time he was done there were soap bubbles all over the floor and even some on the ceiling.

Flinging bubbles continued to be a hit until he took a spoon and tried drinking a spoonful of the soapy dish water. Yuck!