Valentine's Flowers

Last year I found this activity in the February 2010 Family Fun Magazine and loved them.  This year I decided to take them in the institute nursery that I was in charge of.  It was a little ambitious and next time I think I would just make them in advance and let them color them there.  Today I cut everything out in advance, then let the kids color the hearts (flower petals) and then I taped them together.  It was a little exhausting but they just turn out as such cute Valentines.  The ones I did in nursery were with construction paper and I had a leaf on the back with a name or message on it.

Just cut out three hearts, a 5 petal flower for the middle and a leaf for the back.  Put a hole punch through each.  Crease the hearts in the center and then put a dum dum sucker through each and tape it secured how you want it.  Write a Valentine message on the leaf.

Happy Groundhog's Day

I found this little activity off of http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mgroundhog.html.  You use toilet paper rolls, the template is a little smaller than it should be to fit a roll perfect but oh well.

Willard had a lot of fun with it and I combined it with another idea I saw for a pop up groundhog.  Willard loved sinking the groundhog back into his cave then popping him up to see his shadow...thats right, the groundhog saw his shadow at our house...what a surprise, six weeks more of winter! :(

Canvas Art- Damien's Room

I saw this idea on this WEBSITE. I love this lady :) I have some old canvases that I used for our wedding pictures and I had gotten sick of looking at ourselves so much. So I decided to do these for Damien's room. This really is the first thing (other than his quilt) that I have done for his room.

Pink Crocheted Hat

This is a fun hat to make. I have made about 4 different hats all different colors and I love to make them. They are really easy to make and you can even make the cute crocheted flowers to put on the hat. I have made a bunch of crocheted flowers and put clips on the back and turned them into hair clips. Way cute!!!!!

Matching Boys Bug Blankets

When our little Willard was six months old I made him a blanket with bugs on it to match a pillowsham/crib skirt set I bought off of ebay.  I cut the bugs out of the back of the crib skirt and ironed them on to his blanket.  I have wanted to make Porky a matching blanket since he was born but it has taken until now.  I used the rest of the crib skirt bugs for his and also made them matching pillow cases.  Each quilt is a little different but the same idea.  I designed each quilt all on my own and learned a lot in the process.  My mom did the binding on the first blanket but I did everything by myself on the last one.  WooHoo!  Thanks mom, for all the coaching and support.   

Quiet Book Christmas Project...a year in the making

Quiet Book Case

One Bear in the Tent

Two Flying Dragonflies

Three Fish in a Bowl

Four Tickling Jelly Fish

Five Google-eyed Dinosaurs

Six Hiding Bugs in a Tree

Seven Notes on the Scale...some are backwards...opps

Eight Train cars on a track

Nine Flies for the Frog

Ten Flowers In a Garden

I started this last winter and have slowly added pages...sadly when I put it all together it didn't seem as big as I felt it was while working on it.  This is for church and it really has been helpful in keeping the kids quietly occupied.  I found a couple of ideas online but mostly had to think up stuff on my own (or ask family for ideas) It turned out well...though by the end when I made mistakes I just left it because I was too tired to fix anything.  Its functional anyway.

The Daily Calendar Christmas Project

This was a big project for my son for Christmas.  I used felt and levi and fabric paint.  I still need to make activity and mood pieces...I ran out of time.  But Caleb loves it, we change it every day and his favorite is the clock.  Fun!