Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

A Springtime Garland


The last two garlands I made were crocheted, so I had no help from the kids, but this springtime garland is all paper and all kid!! You can see my February garland here, and the March garland here.

But this garland came out sooooo cute, that even though it was made by the 9 and under crowd, I just love it!!

We used scrapbook cardstock and paper for this craft.

I made a pattern of a bunnies head out of a cereal box and Mark and Grace traced the pattern onto spring colored cardstock and then cut them out. We then cut triangles, about the same size at the bunny, out of patterned scrapbook paper.

Simply glue wiggle eyes onto the bunnies. Then glue a triangle nose onto the bunnies. This job fell to Kim and Luke. Gracie drew on the whiskers and mouths. So simple but so cute.
I then used a needle and cotton yarn to "sew" the triangles and bunnies together.
Hang and enjoy
I saw this idea somewhere out there in the world wide web. I would like to give credit to the original crafter, so if you have seen this please leave a comment so I can give credit where credit is due.abc button

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Spring!?

Spring has returned!! We hope. Our snow of 3 days ago has all melted thanks to the last two days of temperatures in the 60's. It has been just beautiful. The kids got outside and I opened the windows and aired out the house.Some of the kids headed out on a nature walk. They are still looking for spring for the "spring field day".
Dan spent some time outside reading.
One thing that happens when you melt 18 inches of snow in two days is that you get a real lot of mud. It didn't bother the kids at all but I did have to carry some of them directly to the tub before they could be loose in the house.



I also wanted to include a picture of Kim and Luke's new pj's because they are just so darn cute.
We would like to annouce the arrival of our newest nephew: JOHN HENRY!!!!!
Congratulations to Joanne and Andy. This little blessing joins brothers Andrew and Tommy and sister Martha Rose. John Henry is my children's 38th first cousin. That is alot of cousins.