The kids made picture frames to put their camping trip picture in. My mom cut out the wood frame and I had the kids paint the frame. Then they glued acorns that they found camping and other random stuff that grandma and I had. A fun way to remember a great trip.
Ellie had some help ;-)
Miles is the sweetest!! I did not tell him to put that! Ha Ha!!! I didn't even help him with the spelling :-)
The boys got a kit to make a volcano for Christmas. They were impressed and had lots of fun!
Mason didn't like the smell of vinegar :-)
Miles was VERY excited!!!
These were included in the kit too!
I picked this book up at Lakeshore Learning Store along with multi colored stamp set. My kids love arts and crafts. A great gift idea! We also have a drawing book from the same artist. The kids use it a lot! Most of kids drawing books are hard for the little kids to do but Miles could follow along each step all by himself back when he was 4. Mason is 7 and really enjoys it too!
Miles was home sick again today, but is looking much better this afternoon. He was cutting out paper and I went to go see what he was making. I asked what it was. He said "It is a blood cell shooting antibodies". What in the world!!! Where does he get this stuff?? Here is his project.
Then I remembered a week ago I read him this book. Most of the time he doesn't seem to be really listening or paying attention when I am reading to him. I guess he proved me wrong this time!!!! Do you remember this crazy lady?
Did you read what it said? "White blood cells are shooting antibodies at us". Boy he has a great memory and is scary smart sometimes!!!!
I found these cool craft kits at Target. They also had some other different ones like monster puppets. Perfect for little boys :-)
We hung them from the top of the stairs...
this is how I usually like our spiders, dead - but I will make an exception for the boys just for a few days :-)
The boys made these last Monday. We cracked the top off the eggs, scooped the guts out, shoved a cotton ball inside, sprinkled seeds on top of the cotton, and watered daily. Look what happened in just 7 days! The boys had great fun making these.
Here they are at Day 1. Mr. Egghead on the left had some sort of tiny ground cover flower seeds (sorry I forgot the name). They started to spout only after 2 days but never grew very tall. The middle 2 eggheads had chive seeds which were not very spectacular . But Mr. Egghead on the right was the most impressive. We put cat grass seeds in him. I was really doubtful that anything was going to happen with this one because the seeds were so big. But within 2 days they started to spout and grew like crazy!
Day 7: On the left are some sort of small tiny flower seeds and on the right are chives.
Day 7: The cat grass seeds.
Tell me why we live here again? I can't seem to remember! I think I have a medical intolerance to this horrible heat (ha ha). At least I am not living in Yuma where it is 95 degrees at 9:30 PM! So with all this inclement weather (that is what they call days like this at the boy's school) we are not wanting to leave the air conditioned house. This weekend the kids made these incredibly simple paper chains from all the scrapbooking paper that I will probably never use. They are so easy yet it kept the kids busy for hours! They ended up hanging them from the top bunk to make a curtain. Lots of fun for the boys. BTW: use a glue stick not glue from a bottle, dries a lot faster.
I think this is actually the first year that we dyed eggs with the boys! Mason did one egg and Miles did the rest. Mason didn't like the vinegar smell at all. I like Hannah's idea of silk dyed eggs. And then there is Grandma Kristie who dyed her baby chickens different colors for Easter! I wish I had a picture of that!
