Leaf Art

The other day I gathered some leaves on my way home from my run. I put them in a pile, plugged in a hot glue gun and gave Sydney some card stock paper and googly eyes. This is what Miss Creative came up with....

W, X, Y and Z

We finally finished our alphabet crafts!
W is for watermelon, X is for x-ray, Y is for yarn and Z is for zebra.






I organized and decluttered our craft storage yesterday. This huge pantry will be missed when we move out of this house!

S, T, U, V

I'm not quite as enthusiastic about these letters anymore...it was fun at first, but 20 letters later, it's becoming a chore. For me, anyway. I guess the girls are still having fun.

S is for squirrel (Syd) and snake (Kay), T is for turtle, U is for umbrella (ironically it was a beautiful, sunny day when we did this one!) and V is for vase.

O, P, Q, R

And the alphabet continues...

O is for Owl, P is for Popcorn (this was Syd's idea and she was so excited!), Q is for Queen and R is for Rainbow (my favorite so far)

Monkeys and Noodles

Letters J, K and L

Three more letters...

a jeweled J, Kangaroo K (I know the pouch looks more like a pregnant belly!) and Ladybug L

More Letter Crafts

G is for Glitter, H is for House and I is for Ice Cream. This is about all the homeschooling I could handle this week.

More Letter Crafts

D is for duck, E is for envelope and F is for flag. I think the envelope is my favorite so far. The girls wrote letters on small pieces of paper to put in their envelopes. Kayleigh's were random and Sydney had fun spelling out her name, Kayleigh's name and "I Love You".

Letter Crafts

Last week I stumbled on a new blog called Pocketful of Posies...it's full of ideas for teaching little ones. I just love their letter crafts and decided to give it a try with my girls. The day before we started, a friend posted pics of her boys making an alligator out of the letter A! She got the idea from a different site called No Time for Flashcards. I've put buttons on the side of this blog that will lead you to these sites if you want to check them out for yourselves!

Here's what our letter crafts look like so far.

A is for alligator, B is for bee and C is for caterpillar

Winter Wonderland

Turkeys and Somersaults

Both girls have learned how to do somersaults and actually do them quite well. The following videos are combinations of dancing and somersaulting...

Butterflies, Bicycles and Bird Nests

Enjoying some sunshine...





Sydney's worm...


Kayleigh's mushroom...



The girls were watching Sid the Science Kid this morning, and the characters on the show made nests. I was listening to the materials they used and realized we had all of them in our craft drawer so....




Garage Project....
I'm pretty sure I broke some "Don't Touch the Tools" rule by doing this, but I did it out of love. The garage needed some serious organizing. I would love to "minimize" what we have in the garage, but Kevin says we need it all.

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