Arts and Crafts

Well with spring in the air (for a few days anyway!) we have been feeling crafty. Brenna bought a new fun craft with her own money the other day at the store. There were over 900 colorful pieces of rolled up paper in this thing! It has sticky paper to design your ideas on. She used the template for a fish, and it turned out so cute. She actually gave it to some good friends of ours that are moving to Virginia this week. Always so sweet! We had a to take a picture of it before she gave it away.

On Wednesday mornings we attend a women's event at the house of an awesome lady we go to church with. She opens her home freely to all the women of the church. We do lots of activities which include bible studies, crafts, lots of fellowship, and of course eating! She also has us put out a huge garden in the summer, and you can take any of the vegetables you want! Last week we made three meals to put in our freezer for future use. We had 16 ladies in one kitchen! It was so fun and it all worked out great. Her name is Mrs. Kathy and she is such a blessing. She has transformed her basement into an infant, toddler, and preschool area. The girls absolutely love going. Natalie asks me almost every day if we are going to see her! Kathy plans bible lessons, and crafts for the kids each week as well. After that long intro, I wanted to tell you about the cake decorating we did. It was actually Kathy's daughter that came to teach us some basic cake decorating techniques. We had a lot of fun, and the cake was delicious!

Lastly, I found a really cute craft idea for school in one of my magazines I subscribe to. Brenna loves art which I am not good at! I try to be a creative home school mom sometimes, and this looked like a great idea! We hot glued peeps around an embroidery hoop. She had fun painting the dowel rods green and helping me glue. We stuck the rods into foam and then just added our grass. Brenna picked out the little glass containers. They are so cute, and I hope will make spring want to come and stay for good!