Storybook Craft Day

Yesterday, we had craft day that centered around some of Lily's favorite stories:

First we read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. (Lily actually likes Cat in the Hat better, but that is super long.)
Then we made Cat in the Hat hats! They each got a white "hat" and they glued on the red stripes. We cut the extra sides off of the red paper and taped yarn to the back to tie around their heads.

These are some cute "cats"!

Next we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Then we made coconut trees with the ABC's on them. We started with a tree trunk on a piece of paper, then we painted their hands green to make the palms:

Then they glued brown puff balls onto the tree for coconuts, and added alphabet stickers!

They did a great job!

The last book we read was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. After that we had cookies!

And they wanted milk to go with them! ;0)

More Winter Crafts

We did these winter crafts a week ago, I just kept forgetting to blog about them. We have been busy with pinewood derby cars, school activities, and just life. :0)
Anyway, we made these cute mugs of hot cocoa. Each of the kids had a construction paper mug, then glued on a piece of brown paper for the cocoa, cotton balls for marshmallows, and then decorated the mugs with cute winter stickers.

I forgot to take pictures while they were crafting though. :0(

The next craft we made was penguins!

They had all of the shapes they needed to make a penguin, they just had to put them in the right spots and glue them on.

Aren't they cute??

(I did not label these, because I honestly could not tell you whose is whose.) ;0)

Craft day is always fun, and it gives the kids a chance to play with each other, which is nice. I'm glad Lily has cousins that are able to come over so she can boss around, I mean play with them. ;0)

For this craft day, Dianna brought a cookie cake that said, "Yay for Craft Day!" I can't believe I didn't take a picture of it before we ate it. It was super cute though....and yummy! =) Thanks Dianna!!

Winter Craft Day!

On Wednesday, we had Ares & Johnny over for Winter Craft Day! Since the weather has been so warm, I thought it was kind of funny that we were going to be making snowmen. But then it got COLD on Wednesday!! It was nice to have a craft day already planned so we could stay inside our nice warm house. =)
The first snowmen we made were made with construction paper, googly eyes, and puff balls. I had everything cut out for the kids, they just had to figure out how it all went together.

They did a good job!

Next, we made foam snowmen. (That I bought as a kit after Christmas for 1/2 off, whoo hoo!)

Even their cousin Karen participated. ;0)

Thanks for bringing Ares, Karen!!

Here are their snowmen:

When the boys got home and saw Lily's snowman, they wanted to make their own. Riley made a whole family!

Zach made this cute snowman:

When Lily saw the boys making snowmen, she just had to make another one too!

Now we have plenty of snowmen for our house. ;0)