December Kitchen Table
The kitchen is where everyone ends up in the last week of December, and the table is wanted for baking, wrapping and eating in turns. A paper cloth that is also an activity fits that pattern: it stays down between uses, gets colored whenever somebody sits, and keeps icing sugar and tape residue off the surface in the meantime. Nobody has to clear an art project away before the next tray of cookies.
Taped Beside the Tree
Finished, the sheet belongs on a wall near the tree as a holiday decoration rather than folded away in a drawer. Its length is enough to fill the space behind a food table or to run along a hallway at child height. Children who colored it tend to point it out to visitors, which is a good deal more attention than a bought decoration gets.
Paper Made to Last
Paper for a project this size has to survive being pulled and leaned on for a whole afternoon. The stock is thick, cleanly printed and slow to tear at the edges, so it stays in one piece through a house full of children. Color does not drain out of the printed lines while the sheet sits on the table for several days.
School Party Week
School parties before the break use it the same way, with the sheet laid across two tables so a whole class works on one piece rather than on separate pages. At home it fills a December morning with nothing to prepare beyond a box of crayons and a clear surface. Rolled up, it travels to a grandparent's house, which is where a good many of those afternoons are actually spent.
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