Scratch and Sniff

Today we had lots of fun with our school craft. We made paintings with watercolors, but not just ANY watercolor, no, no...we made SCRATCH and SNIFF watercolorings!!! Yes, you read it right...SCRATCH and SNIFF! It is SUPER easy, and really...smells great. The recipe is at the end of the blog! Enjoy the pictures.

You will need something to hold the watercolors, an icecube tray works perfectly.

Water

Fruit Drink Mix

(1 TSP of Water for each TSP of fruitty drink mix (kool aid, flavor aide etc.))

Just mix them together, and watercolor as you normally would!! When the paint dries, it smells like the fruit that the drink mix was supposed to make....love it!!! ENJOY

Gingerbread Houses - LATE POST!!!

I have pictures of this..but for some reason, they are not loading! ARGH!!! BUT, here is the post until I figure that all out!

Trinity and Tristan had homeschool group on Tuesday and it was time to make Gingerbread houses! I can't even begin to tell you how much she has been waiting for this day. She loves to construct, Tristan loves to destruct, so, it worked both ways. It was so sweet to see all the kids of all different ages smashed together on 2 large tables just going at it. Tristan knocked over 2 cartons of sprinkles, apparently, he loves sprinkles...to be everywhere. Trinity caked so much frosting on her house that I got cavities just looking at it...and don't even get me started on her sprinkle bonanza. She did it all by herself, her own little creation...it is amazing to watch them do these tasks unassisted...no more "Help me momma", now its "No thank you momma, I can do it by myself", bittersweet really. I love my kiddos, and I enjoy watching them flourish into these amazing individuals that they are becoming.

Craft Day...let's make something for Daddy!

Trinity's FAVORITE thing to do in school is crafts...and guess what Thursday was!!! She had this heart shaped potato that we found in a bag getting ready to be boiled, she selflessly spared it and said she HAD TO SAVE IT...so, this was the best time to use it! We made potato stamps and with finger paints, created a peice of art. I rolled out her butcher paper, broke out the paintbrushes, and she went to town. The 3 feet long peice of paper was magically transformed into something only a Daddy could love...well, I love it too! She wrote, "SMILE" "HAPPY" and "I LOVE YOU DADDY" along with her heart potato stamps, and a bevvy of smiling faces. Immediately after she says "Momma, I miss Daddy...I wish he could come home so I can give him this" So, with that, I loaded the kids up in the car, wet paper art and all....we drove to Shannon's work and visited him. He hung the creation in his office, and boy, did that make one little girl SO proud! She told him that she wanted him to have it so he can always think of her and be happy at work. Now, if that doesn't help you have a better day at work, I am not sure what will!

Homeschool Show and Tell

Today we met up with our Homeschool group and it was Trinity's first "Show and Tell". She brought her Hermit Crab named "Flower". It was sooo cute to see her explain to all the kids and moms about her little pet. The entire thing starts something like this :

TRINITY : "Hi, this is my hermit crab, her name is fowler (loosely translated to FLOWER)"

BOY: "AHHH, make it go back in!!!!"

TRINITY: "Oh, don't worry, she doesn't nip..."

KIDS: "Oooooh, coool!"

TRINITY: [HUGE SMILE ON HER FACE]

She was so happy to share with her friends something near and dear to her. I love that we have a support system of other homeschoolers and moms in our neighborhood...Next week she will start PE, it is organized by an outside agency so the kids have an actual coach and they do ACTUAL PE activities for an hour. She loves homeschool, so do I!