T is for turkey...

look at this fun project Adey and I made in honor of turkey day coming up very soon:

materials: paper colors of white/yellow/orange/red, two google eyes, brown crayon, marker or pen, scissors, and glue

folded paper in half and made a T and let Adey use her cutting skills to cut it out

tada...not bad at all! next I let her color it brown since we don't have brown construction paper

I traced the leaves on red/orange/yellow and I cut them out while she colored her turkey (I also made the feet and the nose both on orange paper).  Then we glued on the feathers, then the eyes, then the feet, then the nose, and I made the mouth...and when we were all done we done made our selves a.....

turkey...how cute?!

Adey's thankful tree

With Thanksgiving around the corner I wanted to teach Adey what the holiday is meant to be besides eating lots of food and schools being closed and the black Friday shopping (which I look forward to doing with her when she is older just like me and my mommy did...aw such memories).  

So we took white paper (can be done on brown but we didn't have any) and brown colored pencils and we each colored the whole paper.  Then we cut out our "tree trunk and taped them together.  Then we traced Adey's hand and cut them out on green, yellow, red, and orange paper.  We then taped everything to our front door (so she can be reminded every day of all the blessings in her life and so that we can actually do it every day).  I let her pick which leaf she wants for that day and we date it and we write Adey is thankful for...

so far we have barbies, mommy, daddy, Paisley, Oskar, ice cream

these are of Adey coloring...she just got out of the bath by the way

working on her cutting skills which she is getting quite good at

the final product.  i think it turned out pretty good and it was fun to make and a tradition we will do every year and let Paisley make one when she is old enough to understand.

Halloween treat

so I wanted to do something nice for a few of my friends so i got them all a mountain dew and cut out these ghosts and wrote on the orange sayings "thanks for all you dew" and then "wrapped" a candy bar with a bat theme and attached all in a little pouch.  I hope they liked them!  I will do this more often around the holidays.  it was quite fun to make.

Halloween part 2 and 3

so i mentioned Adey and I made a chain ( http://fullmerfam06.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween.html ). Well our project on Monday night was to paint a pumpkin and we even had a pumpkin for Paisley to paint (they are the ones we got from wheeler farms).  

adey even painted Paisley foot so we could print her foot print on the project

Today (Tuesday) was to make a spider...we traced her hands and then glued them together overlapping the thumbs.  then she put sticker google eyes on it and wanted to paint it with glitter..turned out quite cute and she had a great time!

HALLOWEEN!

I started something fun this holiday with Adey.  We made a chain countdown to Halloween (mainly because she keeps asking when the actual holiday and i tell her the same every time...now she can visually see how much longer we have left).  each day has a fun activity for us to do pertaining to the holiday thanks to pinterest. next year i intend to do the 13 days of Halloween and each ring will have an activity, Halloween movie and book with both girls...i love starting traditions!