Every day IS special

This is something I have struggled with for a very long time.  I always wants to save something--whatever it is for a "special" day.  Could be new kitchen towels, a gourmet dip, a purse, an outfit or just anything.   A little bit of hoarder I guess, but I always want to have something wonderful for a "special" day.  This summer I've been learning that each & every day is a "SPECIAL" day.  Doesn't matter if it is time in the pool, having popcorn & movie night, playing games, or our nightly reading time.  So I admit it is something i struggle with and I am working on.  Tonight, Naters asked me to break out the chocolate fondue.  I caught myself saying, "let's save it"-- I zipped my lips and went to get it out.  After all, an evening with my daughter (my gift), our little nuclear family IS special!  TODAY IS SPECIAL!!!!  We did a Caramel Milk chocolate fondue with Nutter Butter cookies, Vanilla wafers, mini marshmallows & pretzel sticks.  It's what I had since it was so spontaneous after all!  Thanks for loooking!  becky

Alpha Tales, Phonics Tales and Sight Word tales Books

Purchased these three Scholastic sets at Costco this month for under $20.00 each set!  Considering the prices on Amazon, I think I got a great deal!  Naters has been reading them or at least looking through them each day since we bought them!  The other books I purchased at our local used book store store $3.00!

July 4th Holiday

We made jello jigglers in the 4th of July mold I bought recently at our local Marc's store.  Then we made STAINED GLASS JELLO from pictures I saw on Pinterest.  Have a safe & Happy 4th of July!!!

Letter G alphabet sensory bin, alphabet sensory tub





alphabet sensory tub base bin



alphabet sounds treasure box

alphabet sounds treasure box

We decided on the letter G this week for her alphabet sensory tub.  Goat, gorilla, green, gray, grandma, glass, etc.  I added my baggie of letter G to the base alphabet sensory tub (alphabets colored pasta, plastics button letters, alphabet beads, etc.)  When we change out the letter, I just take out all the additives and store them in a baggie.  I have a baggie for each letter of the alphabet; inside each baggie is alphabet flash cards, larger items that I could not fit in the alphabet sounds treasure box.  I keep all the baggies in a lidded bin, and pull them out when we change the letter.  All in all since I have it organized now, it only takes me 2 minutes to change out her alphabet sensory tub.

Thanks for looking!
becky

4th of july number sequence puzzle

Here is a number sequence puzzle I made for Naters last year.  I print it on white cardstock, laminate it and then cut between the numbers.  super simple!

Zoo trip

We have an annual family pass to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, so we go quite often.  We went with my niece and her little girl on a gorgeous day here.  Naters was able to take a camel ride; I was surprised, but she wasnt scared at all!

breaking out the Primary Science Set

We've had this Learning Resources Primary Sceince Set  for months.  Yesterday Naters asked if we could bring it out today.  I've let her go through the box before but we haven't done anything because she never asked to.  We started with the first experiment card today - color mixing.  Naters had a lot of fun with this.  I then got out some pipettes and we used them to make some art on watercolor paper.

Father's Day gifts #2

This is handprint collage we made for Daddy.  I got the print from Confetti Printables on Etsy.  She was willing to work with any color combos or sayings that you wanted.  Super easy to deal with.  I had this printed by shutterfly in 11x14. I used Stampin' Up Ink pads for her handprints in numerous shades of greens.  We got the frame at hobby lobby for 40% off with coupon!  I like how it turned out.  (Please note, we did notice the typo and she is sending us a new print with proper wording.  It should say when I WAS small, not when I were small.  We just can't get new print in time, so this will do til the replacement comes.) Thanks for looking!  Becky

sponge painting

Naters chose to use glitter paints for use with our flower building sponge set.  She enjoyed this a lot and was quite creative, but I think next time we will use our regular paints for better coverage.  Although we did find that once she put the sponge down, if she counted to five the image came out so much better with the glitter paints.

Thanks for looking!
Becky

Father's Day gifts #1, Handprint T-shirts

I helped Natalie make these handprint T-shirts for her Dad for Father's Day.  I prewashed & dried the t-shirts.  We used brown fabric paint and a brown fabric marker.  After her handprint was dry, I used Red fabric paint on a heart shaped rubber stamp I had and put that on top.

Thanks for looking!

Becky