Vegetable Cars

Back in March, the letter of the week was V. Chase and Cody's teacher, Miss Sarah, thought of a cute way to incorporate vegetables into the cooking session on that Wednesday.

She gave everyone a piece of celery, some cream cheese, raisins, carrots cut into circles, and toothpicks. She had everyone assemble the cars. Chase and Cody had so much fun doing this. I guess the only part that they needed help doing was putting the toothpick through the celery.

Of course, they were able to eat it right after they made it and Chase and Cody said it tasted very good!

I think it's a very cute craft and wanted everyone to see it!

Makes My Monday

This weekend was a rainy, wet, cold weekend. A weekend for staying indoors and doing crafts and projects. I had found a cute Valentine Craft at No Time for Flash Cards Blog and thought this weekend would be a good weekend to do it!

The complete instructions can be found here for the Valentine Day Craft. It was a bunch of fun to do for the boys!

We painted and got red paint everywhere. I should learn that the boys need to wear smocks or something like that so they don't ruin good shirts. Maybe if I soak them long enough the paint will come out...I can hope right?

I actually realized that I didn't get completed pictures of the project. They had fun and thought they were Frisbees and throwing them through the house. Which was fine until one lost some of the rice and beans that we put inside. Still it kept them busy for a while.

My project this weekend was sewing a pair of shorts for the boys. They ended up being way to big for them and I need to find a pattern that fits them. But it was fun and I want to find something that I can sew all the time. I am starting to get bored with being at home so much and need projects to keep me busy with my down time.

I also made some chocolate candy from a Candy Kit that I had bought for Valentines Day. It turned out very good and very cute also. I am giving them away int he goodie bags for the boys classmates for their party on Wednesday for Valentine's Day.

Hope you had a great weekend also! Playing along with Cheryl at:

Love Bug Craft

Missy at Two Little Monkey's posted this craft a few weeks back. I knew I wanted the boys to do it also because it is so darn cute!

We took a egg carton and cut it in to two pieces, which made the body of our bug!

Then we painted the love bug. Chase choose a purple color


and Cody a orange color.

We waited for them to dry, which took a couple of days because we didn't have time to complete the bug the next day.

But On Thursday night, we finished decorating them with some cute antenna's (pipe cleaners),
glue on goodies and pom poms. Chase had a blast decorating his. He wanted one of everything on it.

Cody didn't really care about finishing his, but we did get some eyes and pom poms on the bug. he turned out cute also!

Just wanted to share a valentine craft with everyone. Thanks Missy for passing on some great crafts to us for us to use and have fun with!!

Two for Twos-day

Yesterday, we were stuck inside all day due to a huge rain storm that is moving through the area. So I needed to think how do I keep them entertained all day without being able to play outside in the dirt.

Just for these type of days I had bought a water painting book. I remember doing them as a child and when I found them at Michael's I was so happy. I brought out the water and the books


and they started to paint. At first, they didn't get that they didn't get to make a mess with real paint and not get it on their hands and fingers. I showed them how it worked. Chase loved it! He did one entire book of Mickey and Friends pages and would have done more if I had let him!

Cody on the other hand, thought it was just not physical enough for him and went back to jumping and running around. Asking if he could go outside and sneaking outside without any shoes, socks or a jacket on. He did after a while, "help" Chase finish his. But that was the only way that he would do it - was helping his brother get his project done.

Hopefully I have more projects like this that I can bring out for a bunches of rain headed our way!

Thanksgiving centerpieces

I wanted to post about our Thanksgiving centerpieces that Chase and Cody made for our table.

I didn't have time before this to do it and thought that it could also be used for a Christmas table centerpiece with the word Santa or Merry Christmas.

I saw this craft in Parents Magazine Turkey Day Table Centerpiece and adapted to Chase and Cody's abilities . It turned out cute.

What I did was found letters on the Internet that were colorable that I printed out. Chase and Cody colored them.

I then traced a circle on different colored construction paper and they cut out the circle.

We did this over a few weeks because they would get tired of cutting out circles and coloring it.

I cut out the colored letters and they pasted them on the circle spelling out the words;

Happy Thanksgiving

He is the finished result at home.

I had the boys glue straws to the back of the circle to make them stand up. We used red paper cups and dirt from the desert to put this in as the centerpiece of our table.

Here are the kids filling up the cups with dirt. It really kept them busy and out of the way while we were getting the last of the dinner prep ready. You don't have to use dirt but you could also use beans.
I forgot a didn't get a actual picture of them all on the table, but everyone liked that Chase and Cody had worked hard and turned out very cute.

I hope this gave someone an idea for there Christmas table centerpieces.

Valentine Craft

I saw this craft in a magazine and thought it would be a perfect gift for Chase and Cody to give to their teachers for Valentine's Day.

Supplies:

A few sheets of different colored construction paper

Scissors

Double Sided tape

Marker

Bottle of hand lotion

I traced around the boys hand for thier hand prints on the construction paper

I then cut out the hand prints out of the paper with the scissors

Next on the cut out hand prints I wrote "You deserve a hand" with the marker. I also cut out a couple of odd shaped hearts and attached them to the cut out hand print with the double sided tape.

I then attached the cut out hand print to the hand lotion bottle with another piece of double sided tape.

The boys have 4 teachers that I like to give little things to them for the holiday's and to tell them thanks for taking care of the boys for me. It was very simple and turned out cute.