Keeping a two-year-old and four-year-old busy all day can be quite a task. We can’t spend all day at the park, no matter how much I would like to. And the day can feel pretty long if we do the same things over and over. So I’ve been looking for little projects and activities to fill our days.

I was wondering through a random store the other night when I glanced down the craft aisle and spotted these wooden letters. I can’t remember the exact price but I know they were somewhere around a dollar a piece and the paints were about $0.45 each. I let the boys each pick two colors to buy. The boys loved painting their letters and I think we might slowly work through their entire first names. We had a great afternoon (or at least 20 minutes of the afternoon) of painting and literally watching paint dry. They turned out great and the serious looks on the boys faces while they were hard at work totally made my day.