Such a simple thing made for a very unique gift!
Christmas was just a couple of weeks ago, but doesn’t it seem like eons ago already? It makes me just a little bit sad, but like we always say, “If Christmas was every day, we would not appreciate it.”
Right?
Right.
The good thing is that even though Christmas is over, we now have the whole year to enjoy our gifts. I know I’ve certainly been enjoying mine, and I know my kids have been enjoying theirs also.
I thought that today I’d share with you a unique gift that Elizabeth received in her stocking from my mom and dad.
A roll of blue painters’ tape.
Yup.
She took it out of her stocking, looked at it, and put it aside and kept going. I don’t think she quite knew what to think, but she didn’t say anything. She was the only one of the three girls to receive this gift.
After the gifts were opened, my mom said, “Let me tell you about the roll of tape.”
It turns out that my mom had seen a link showing all unique gifts for kids and on it was painters’ tape. The link went on to explain that with painters’ tape, kids can create cool designs on the walls, anywhere in the house. As long as the tape is removed in a week or so, it won’t leave any residue.
Immediately my kids were intrigued. They are constantly “creating” things for our walls. As I sit right now there is a four foot mural taped to the wall in front of me in the dining room. I’ll have to show that another day though.
Back to the painters’ tape.
Elizabeth grabbed her tape and the girls went to town. They each did their initials on our wall at the top of our stairs in the living room (which together spells out Elizabeth’s initials also) and then she moved into her room, which is newly painted white as of this summer. She had her walls covered in posters but took some down to make some space.
Below are some photos of her creations. They are still up, so we will have to see how long is too long before we need to deal with the residue. We’re definitely pushing the one week limit but she wants to leave it up just a little longer.
Painters’ tape. Inexpensive, unique, hours of fun.
Great gift!
Their initials and a little house. I love the smoke coming out of the chimney on the house!
Some of the bedroom artistic creations
Back of the bedroom door
The Whole bag of Chips 
This is awesome! Your mom is great! Maybe she should have been an occupational therapist! I am going to tell my OT dept about this..it’s a great creative, bilateral fine motor activity! Ripping tape is challenging for the kids on my caseload, so this is perfect! Will tell their parents, too! Thank you!
Glad you like it!
great idea, they can be easily entertained with this 😉 like it a lot 🙂 your mom is great 😉
Thanks! I actually thought of you, thought you might like this one!
Thank you, mine is still small but told my hubby about it and we might get him this 😉