Soap Making

Today we made some soap. This is going to be little gifts for the kids teachers this year. They got to help with putting the glycerin in the pan and then we just let it liquefy, added a scent and some food coloring. then poured it into our little snowflake molds. After letting them cool a few hours we popped them out of the molds and....TA-DA!

Painting pumpkins....a fun rainy day activity.

This afternoon we decided it would be fun to paint a couple of the pumpkins that we grew in our backyard. So the kids each brought one inside and set forth to create a masterpiece! What fun it was to figure out what colors to use and how exactly to tackle the paint job. They spent about an hour perfecting their masterpieces, and this is what we have....

I think we may try turkey hand paintings later this week!

Lots of Pumpkin Carving Fun!!

After a yummy dinner Dylan comes running over to me and says, "You said we could do something with the pumpkins!" So I proceed to get everything set up for carving the pumpkins out.

I nominated Poppa as the pumpkin carver. So Poppa cut the top off one

and I proceeded to cut the top off the other....watch out for the Momma with the knife!

We got the tops off and then started the goop scooping process.

I decided I wanted to be all Suzi Homemaker and save the pumpkin seeds to roast....so Dylan and Aunt Cagney went through the painstaking process of separating out the seeds from the goop.

The went through and got it all separated out while Poppa was working ever so hard to make the pumpkin faces. Dylan wanted his to have an angry face, and demonstrated what it should look like.

Ally wanted hers to be scared, which Dylan also demonstrated.

Such an adorable boy! Uncle Eric got into the carving and tried to carve out the little white pumpkin we had gotten.

The kids wanted a star and moon carved out of it. Turned out really cute. Here are the finished products. Pretty Dang cute if I do say so myself!

PS: The seeds never got roasted......bah!

"Finger" Painting

Today I was feeling brave and decided to let the kids finger paint in the garage and I told them if you get it on you no big deal. Even going as far to tall them they could use their arms, legs, feet, etc to paint with. Dylan wasted no time and within 5 minutes had pretty much abandoned the paper and started painting himself. He started putting paint on his belly so I told him he should try to put it from his belly onto the paper...he thought that was funny but he tried it anyways. They had forks and straws, some sponges, and one paintbrush. They had so much fun. He was blue from the waist down, plus his belly and a little on the back. Ally kept her painting to her ankle then decided to spread it up her whole leg eventually. It was fun and a great success, I think I can do this more the mess really wasn't so bad!

Beautiful Butterflies

We went outside today to enjoy some of the warm weather and let the kids ride their bikes. While sitting and watching the kids I noticed my Cat Mint bush COVERED in these little butterflies. There were at any given time more than 20 or so. I pointed them out to the kids and they were as fascinated as I was. We sat and watched them for awhile, then I tried to catch some pictures of them. Here are some of the better ones. Enjoy!

Artsy Pics From Today

Here are some of my artistic pictures from today.....I love them...hope you will too!