Another question could be "how much work do you think you could do with 5 kids under the age of 6 in the house when it rains all day?"  The answer is - VERY LITTLE! 

Our 4 year old quadruplet grandbabies (kids as they tell me) and their 6 year old big brother are here for 3 days, and today it rained most of the day.  Well, these guys LOVE projects and "activities", so I always try to have something we can bring out during bad weather!  Today we first brought out a box of books that had been put away during most of July because of our son and his family coming here to visit (we wanted the house to look like something besides an exploded day care center!), and they acted like they were all new books.   Then they started picking out the ones they liked best and we spent some time reading and looking at the books.  After that excitement was over, we did our project - making crowns.

My sister had gotten a bag of various shaped "jewels" - hearts, squares, stars, triangles, circles, etc in all colors that had a little sticker on the back, which turned the jewels into stickable jewels when the backing was removed.

I made crown shapes our of card stock for them to dress up, then we stapled them to fit each child's head.  Here is a picture of the super crowns!  Notice how differently each one of them has decorated the crowns.



This project took them over half an hour to complete - and we still had to wait on Sarah to finish hers -- she's the one that had to have everything in a straight line.  Is this an awesome group of kids or what????