Home Depot Kids Projects
I regularly take the kids to Home Depot on Saturday to do kid’s projects. It’s great dad time: work a little project, and hang out. No muss, no fuss. Plus it gets Tara a little time to herself.
We get these really cool badges that the kids get to put on their aprons. I think of them as Daddy-badges.
I have a bit of a scar in this area. Dad and I only did two projects together: a pinewood derby that came in last (he did all the work – I wasn’t allowed to touch much of it) and a set of bookends that we got only through the first step on before he quit. When we cleaned out the office after he died, they were still there in basement on top of the safe.
So, I take things like this seriously. I love the fact that they are going to remember holding nails, whacking dad’s hand, and cleaning up spilled glue.
This time Tara got in the action as well.
There’s time to be silly and have fun. Nice thing is that there isn’t any clean up. I love the show-up-and-be-dad model.
This week’s project was a piggy bank that was supposed to look like a Home Depot shed – it looked more like an outhouse to Tara and I though. Note all the badges on Jake and Emma.
…and (per normal) we managed to leave something at the store (Abby’s outhouse bank) and had to come back.
True story: when Abby was younger, I used to bring her along but she was too little to do the projects. To keep her from wandering, I’d put her in one of the orange buckets.
