A Giveaway!

Preschool is at my house right before Mother's Day, so we are doing a little project for the kids' mothers.

I made these simple aprons:


I will write on them with fabric marker, "Mommy's Bugaboo" and then I'll have the kids make fingerprint bugs on them (like caterpillars, spiders and ladybugs).

I made one extra apron (as pictured above, with nothing written on it yet). Does anyone want it? If you do, leave a comment and if there's more than one comment, we'll pick randomly.

Update:
Okay, so I think it went really well. Below is one of the aprons - a finished one. I think they turned out so cute and I can't wait to get mine on Sunday!

Hiking with Boys

This takes only one sheet of paper for each booklet.





Our Cub Scouts enjoyed these little booklets. One got 216 points. Use this link to get a blank booklet you can modify in MS Word: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af-TB2GMsVXoZGNtM3B2c2NfMDRzM2hrOGdx&hl=en
Here is a copy of this very booklet if you're going hiking in the desert: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af-TB2GMsVXoZGNtM3B2c2NfMWd2cnprNWRr&hl=en

My New Favorite Apron

Don't let Willa see! This is her birthday present. These little aprons are so cute and easy to make. When Faith's jeans get holes in them I cut off the back, sew a ruffle along the bottom (and sometimes a row of ric rac above that) and a tie that matches the ruffle. It's fun (if you have enough material) to make a matching headband to go with. We gave one of these to a little friend for her birthday with some cooking utinsels in a pocket and a recipe for Mrs. Field's chocolate chip cookies.



This particular apron came from a denim skirt I found at a thrift store.

Q is for Quilt

At preschool last month for the letter Q we decorated quilt squares and talked about patterns. The quilt squares were fun for the moms, and the patterns were fun for the kids. I gave each child 12 3" square pieces of cardstock in 3 different colors and we made patterns with them. It was fun. It was especially fun to see who understood the concept of patterns and who wasn't quite there yet.

Also, as we ate our sQuids (sliced up hot dogs with spaghetti noodles going through them - got the idea from Family Fun magazine - thank you, Paige!) we played, "Is This A Pattern?" I asked them questions like, "Is Will, Tyson, sink, Will, Tyson, sink - a pattern?" It was fun and I highly recommend the squiddies for little kids. Everybody loved both making and eating them except for Will who only enjoyed making them.

How to Draw #1

For LDS kids (or Primary Teachers) who have always want to know -- here's how to draw a General Authority.

If you want to see this as a photobucket slideshow, you can click on this link:

http://s752.photobucket.com/albums/xx170/Paige_Ladd/How%20to%20Draw%20a%20General%20Authority/