Thanksgiving chain

Most years we make a Thankful tree, however this year we wanted to try something different. After thinking of a few different ideas, we settled on making a paper thankful chain. It turned out cute and was a fun decoration to have for our Thanksgiving day.

Snowflake pumpkins

My boys love to make snowflakes! So when I came across this idea to make Jack O'lantern 'snowflakes', I knew we had to try it! The boys and I had a fun time making and displaying these this year.

Pharaoh's Crook

For my oldests History lesson we have been studying all things Egypt. One of his art projects was to make a Pharaoh's Crook. I knew we'd never be able to make just one, so we made it a family project. Daddy made the crooks out of newspaper/magazine paper and masking tape. The kids then painted their taped crooks the colors of their choosing. They were quite happy with the results and play with them often. And bonus- only some of the times do I have to take them away for improper usage. :)

Paper pumpkin ornaments

For our October kids book group we read our favorite Halloween book Jack O' Lantern and made these fun pumpkins! We enjoyed having these as decorations for not only Halloween, but also for Thanksgiving!

Jelly Bean bracelets!

My visiting teaching companion and I wanted to make this fun craft for the ladies we visit for the month of April, and the kids thought it looked like so much fun! (Really I think they just wanted some jelly beans...) So I took the leftover supplies and whipped them up some jelly bean bracelets of their own. As you can imagine, they didn't last long, but they talked about them for days!

Sadly, it ended up being too hard to push the needle through the jelly beans, so it wasn't something they could participate too much in. They did have fun directing the order of the jelly beans and the color of their ribbons though.

St. Paddy's Day Rainbows

The week before St. Patrick's Day, we read a lot of books on St. Patrick, the Irish and Leprechauns! I decided we'd make some fun rainbows- and I'm really glad we did! All that color really makes the room bright!

The finished product with their pots of gold!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!

We got to go to a little playgroup where the kids enjoyed making these fun hats! So cute!

Snow Candy!

We are reading the Little House in the Prairie Series right now for school and decided to try out some Snow candy!




Unfortunately it ended up being the last snow of the season that we tried this with, but we will definitely be making more next year! It was yummy!

Valentines Day banner

This idea came from Martha Stewart I believe...

This is the biggest heart banner (the medium one didn't get a picture...)


And then because we still haven't taken down our Thankful Tree, we decided to decorate it with the littlest hearts!

Valentines Day Cards

We got this fun little idea from Pinterest! So cute and very simple. The older boys did this without a problem.

melted crayon hearts

This week for our art project we sharpened lots of crayons, laid them between wax paper, covered it with a towel, and laid an iron on top of it. Later I traced a heart on top, cut them our and hung them on the windows. The boys loved to see the crayons when they were only half melted! They had a lot of fun with this project. Idea found here.

sorry, it was late when I remembered to take a picture...

Constellations

In science the boys were learning about stars, so we took a break from the textbook and dived into a little star 'gazing'! We looked up a few constellations, learned a little about them, then 'charted' them onto paper. Idea found here.