Since the girls were so fascinated with weddings and the marriage of Ariel to Prince Eric in the movie "The Little Mermaid," of course I had to develop a fun activity to support this interest. Their great-grandmother gave them a wedding kit which folds out as a backdrop. We set that up on the sofa and assembled the cardboard archway. I explained to the girls that a couple sends invitations to invite friends and family so we set about making invitations. Next, the girls delivered and "read" the invitations to all the dolls they could find in the house. We dressed them and arranged them seated on either side of the gazebo. One of the male princes was pressed into service as the minister. I voiced all the parts the first time,
hummed the wedding march, and told the girls how to manuever the dolls for the different parts of the ceremony. After that, they tooks turns doing the wedding
parts themselves. They did it over and over!
Afterwards, we held a "reception" complete with tiny sugar candy cakes and cranberry juice. It was the wedding of the century! I think the girls will continue to play wedding for weeks afterward. Now I just have to convince my son that I be allowed to buy a wedding dress up set for the girls! (He doesn't like all this wedding talk. He doesn't want to think of his girls EVER getting married.)
