What do you do when....

.....you have a budding domestic goddess for a daughter but you don't have a single crafty bone in your body? I don't have the foggiest idea. I do know that I learned the hard way not to allow them to check out books at the library full of wonderful craft ideas that they want to get crackin' at right away and then you have to admit that you don't have a clue how to help them. Poor Princess. :) I leafed through the book searching for anything that I could help her do. I settled on sewing a doll. Honey Bunch wanted in on the action and Dude did too, only he wanted to sew a Ninja, not a doll. So off we headed to Wal-Mart for fabric and stuffing. Princess was a natural and is already begging to sew another one. Dude was excited for a finished project but was frustrated with the time it took. He decided huge stitches would take less time, so his doll, I mean Ninja, ended up looking pretty realistic. Not intended, but fun nonetheless. Honey Bunch did a good job sewing but grew bored pretty quickly so I "helped" her quite a bit. Here's what they looked like before faces/clothes. (Dude's is the farthest on the left, notice the arm sticking up in the "hi yaw" pose.)
Princess really wanted to sew faces on but our Wal-Mart doesn't carry embroidery thread at the moment, so she reluctantly agreed to draw on a face with markers.
Dude hasn't drawn a face on yet, and he wants to make a Ninja outfit out of some extra black fabric we have so I'll post a finished picture of his later. He did make this castle with a battle between a ninja and a knight today, though.
And here's a picture of Megaman who napped all through our doll making but wanted a picture taken anyway.