Stained Glass Kite

While S was napping today, A and I made a "stained glass kite." I saw the idea posted on Google + from Make and Takes. I followed their link which had step-by-step instructions. We pretty much followed it to a "T."

Rainbow Wreath

I had been wanting to make a new Spring wreath for awhile. I wanted to make something that the kids could help with, was made from things we already had on hand, and that was colorful for Spring. A couple ideas had come to mind, but none that really grabbed me. I did see some that I really loved (and still do), but they weren't ones easily made with the girls' help. Then I came across this post from the Nurture Store blog. It was just the idea we needed for our wreath! S did the red, yellow, and blue handprints, and A did the orange, green, and violet handprints.

I put the paint on the lids to glad-ware containers.

The girls each had a side of the paper to do their handprints. 

I used hot glue to attach the handprints to a cardboard circle. Then, I sprayed it with an acrylic sealer. It wouldn't normally have done this, but since we hung it outside I thought (hoped?) that it would help it last longer. It is after all still paper. 

The completed wreath on our door. I explained to the girls that it is paper, and that paper isn't really meant for outdoors. Our porch does have an overhang to keep it mostly dry, but it isn't completely blocked from the elements. We decided to still take a chance. We are about five days out now, including some days with wind and rain, and it is still looking good! Hopefully it will last awhile!

Family Dinner Book Club - The Day The Crayons Quit

I discovered a great idea of doing a family dinner book club on the blog, Growing Book By Book. I decided to try it out for the month of February. It was so much fun!

The basic idea is each month Growing Book By Book will choose a book (alternating each month between a picture book and a chapter book). In February the book was "The Day The Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers. I thought this was a cute and funny book! The girls seemed to like it, too. Mid-month, dinner ideas and decorating ideas are provided by Daisy At Home and Enchanted Homeschooling Mom (respectively), and questions are provided through Growing Book by Book. You can choose to do as much or as little as you want to make it work for your family. We followed the general ideas for the decorations and the dinner (some minor adaptations), and we used most of the questions this time around.

Here are pictures of our table decorations/setting:

Here are pictures of the making of our homemade pasta noodles (first time ever making our own noodles)! We chose to only do the green-dyed pasta instead of the orange and the red/purple as well. We wanted to keep it simple since it was our first time. Sadly, while we got many pictures of the process of making them, we did not get any after it was done. We made the alfredo sauce from the same site. It turned out delicious! We had colorful fruit, a salad, and some french bread to go along with it.

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Here we are at the dinner table:

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