Guess what the art project was this day...

My kids had fun making themselves (out of a roll of that cheap brown paper you can get at home improvement stores). 

I saw a suggestion to make 2 cut-outs per person, one for the front and one for the back, and then staple them together, stuffing old newspapers in between.  That idea sounded good  (although I had images of the kids using their paper-people as Taekwondo dummies.... and then images of brown paper and newspapers strewn all over the floor)  but we didn't do it.  The amount of effort it took to coordinate all 3 of them in their tracing, cutting, and coloring was more than enough for me.  I was too tired at the end to try and double all that effort!

So our characters are flat and still -- unlike the characters who made them.

For someone who has more storage space than I do, I think this would be a fun thing to do each year, and then keep to show the the kids as they grow.