Bracelets of Love

 It's been awhile since I've photographed these girls doing a craft.  Yesterday it was fun watching them string up these candy bracelets.  Happy Valentines Day!

C.M. Russell Museum Craft Day

Well I took 5 little girls to the craft day today at the museum.  We spent about 3 hours hitting every table of crafts they had set up.  It was an amazingly organized event with gobs of volunteers.  The preparation alone for something like this must have taken hours!  I only had my phone so the pictures aren't great but they are fun, nonetheless.

Ashely, Kyndra, and Collette and then Avery at the candy cane mouse station.

 Avery and Eliza at the paint stick snowman.

 I loved these melted snowmen!

 Drying spot.

 These angels were the hardest to do...but all the girls managed to make beautiful angels.

 Cookies of course!

 These were beaded bracelets.

These little trees were as cute as can be!

I missed some of the stations but these were the favorites.

That museum is amazing!

Perler Toys

We discovered two new uses for the millions of perler bead creations we have around the house.  They have been used as keychains, coasters, magnets...and now toys.

First there is the spinner.

You thread some yarn or string through two holes, 

(which are already there if you didn't melt the beads too much)

Tie the ends together of the string.

Twirl the middle piece until the yarn is all twisted.

Keep pulling it back and forth until it is whirling through the air like a propeller.

Next is a top.

Stick a toothpick in a hole in the middle.

Cut the top off so it isn't pointy, leave the bottom pointy.

Spin.

If you have no bead creations...we can share!

Digital Valentine

The girls were working so diligently on this Tux Paint project tonight. I turned on the micrphone and shot some pictures.


After viewing some of Lon's niece's husband, Jan's work, which is amazing, I got the itch to start recording some audio of the girls. I don't always write down the cute or funny things they say. I can't write the way they talk, the way Avery says her r's and s's. Pictures don't capture their giggles. So, this is the first experiment of what I hope to be many. It was fun, pretty easy using Audacity and Windows Movie Maker.

If you go to Jan's multimedia site, be sure to check out the Roadside Shrines. I found this to be very powerful.

Valentines Boxes

1 borrowed Cricut
2 boxes from work
3 boxes of valentines
4 glue sticks
5 hours
6 pieces of scrapbooking paper
7 Sharpies


6 hearts
5 snowflakes (I didn't ask)
4 yellow flowers
3 paintbrushes
2 cute Valentines boxes
1 tired Mom!