Halloween! little late...

 I forgot to blog about Halloween! Isn't that the CUTEST tinkerbell ever! We had some special friends over for a Halloween party, which really turned into a princess party because none of the boys dressed up and all the girls were princesses!  This is what i made for lunch

 Yes, those are potatoes with chocolate chips on them. i couldn't think of anything better to use for eyes, but the potatoes worked perfect as ghosts!

 Don't think i really need to explain the carrot jack o lantern...

 And of course the classic witches finger wiener wraps.

 oh she is so cute! if only i could take a little credit, she really looks like nic and nothing like me.

 Blake was dressed up as a shark (not the dinosaur costume his grandma so lovingly made him). But currently Blake does not really like his picture taken, so i had to sneak one! Kayla figured out trick-or-treating very quickly and did not miss a house! When Blake was the same age he figured if he had 1 candy in each hand why did he need anymore? Not kayla, she collected candy from everyhouse the kids went to. and of course we went trick-or-treating with some favorite friends.

Because Tinkerbell was clearly not weather appropriate Kayla wore Blake's old skunk costume, and to make sure people knew she was a girl i added a little flower over the ear, reminds me of the skunk from bambi. I think if Kayla keeps up her interest in all things girly, this is the last year we will be able to recycle Blake's costume to Kayla, i just don't see i dragon or shark being very girly!

Colors! -dayhome

It's been a while since my last blog post...but i have not given up yet!

So for 3 weeks my day home theme was colors, we did green and red each for a full week and the last week was multi-colored.  here are a few of the things i planned-

 toy sorting with tongs. the boys really like using the tongs and seeing the different things they can pick up with them, they weren't so interested in actually sorting but the material kept them busy anyway!

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 green week! i had a collection of green things in the 'water table'. We also had green play doh, green lunch, and other green things.

 i found this idea on pinterest, i don't think it was overly successful maybe if the kids were older. And it took ALOT of hair gel to make 2.

Red week, for obvious reasons was the same week as remembrance day.  We read little red ridinghood, i pulled out the wolf costume and 3 red capes i made previously, but this time around with only boys no one wanted to wear a red cape.  We made red birds with styrofoam balls, these turned out REALLy cute and the boys were so proud! Blake's crafts are above.  On Nov 10 we did a poppy college, the boys were not at all convinced that poppies are flowers, but there colleges turned out great anyway, i cut petals out of red textured paper and curled them over pencils.

 This is spiderman, can't you tell! Blake was so proud of this picture so i had to include it.

This is the materials i set out for a blue college.  We also baked rainbow chip cookies, made red smoothies, played peg boards (which i made), tried sewing with the boys just with wooden shapes and laces but it went surprisingly well! and we did beading, and other fun color stuff.