Family Projects for Reed's TK class

When we had parent orientation in September for Reed's transitional kindergarten class one of the things they told us about was that each month there would be a family craft project. It would relate back to what they would be teaching in school the coming month and it should be something all the members of the family contribute to. For the most part we enjoyed working on these projects. Usually we would get the assignment and I would search Pinterest for some ideas, show Reed the pictures, and he would pick an idea (or combination of ideas) for us all to execute. We made sure Kieran worked on at least a little of each project but to be honest his attention span didn't last very long. My only complaint about the family projects were sometimes we were given them on Monday or Tuesday and had to turn them in by Thursday. This is a pretty fast turn around for families with working parents, kids in after school activities, and/or kids with homework - all three of which apply to us. Add the fact that we live in a small town with the nearest craft store about 30 minutes away and we definitely had to get "creative" sometimes. Looking back it was a good experience and not something we would have made time to do as a family otherwise.