The Letter L Day 2

So now that we now that the letter L has only two lines we decided to make the letter out of popsicle sticks! Long line down and little line across bottom. 

We started with the letter then we had traced it and connected the dots. Towards the end he was confidant enough to do it on his own. We also thought of lots of fun things that start with the Letter L. 

I also decided draw a heart and put inside of the heart a verse from the bible. I use a word such as LOVE and the Letter L with a connect the dots and had everything else spelled out. Malachi then wanted to trace the heart. I had written LOVE and four little heart stickers and was going to have my son tell me the verses that have love in them. He did a great job! He would put down a sticker and then I would ask him what the verse was and then he would tell me.

Now after this project my son, Josiah woke up from his nap, so I decided to distract him with coloring page while Malachi and I finished this project. You can probably tell that Josiah flew threw that coloring book as fast as he could and then was sitting right next to his brother! Luckily this time we were a little more rested and not as grumpy the other post on the letter L. On this project we had some stickers and a leaf. First I drew a Letter L on the paper with a block letter. Now I had ____adybug,  _____eaf, ____ion, _____amb and then I had my son write L in the blank spot. Then I would give him the sticker of the item he had just had written. I plucked a silk flower leaf and both the boys helped tape it on the paper. Malachi was willing to share with his brother and nothing makes a Mama happier then seeing them work together and encouraging each other by saying, "Good job brother!" or "Nice work!" instead of whining with words like "mine" and other silliness. Also Josiah had to have "Pa Grape" from the Veggie Tales "the Pirate's Who Don't Do Anything" in his hand or close by him at all times!

Sure do love my boys even when they aren't happy when I take their picture's, but especially when they really want me to take them!

Easter is NEARING!!!!!!

Easter is next SUNDAY!!! 

What an honor that we have an amazing God who sent His Son to the world knowing that He would be murdered by the people that He loves. Only to raise Him from the dead and now we now longer have to offer sacrifices for forgiveness, instead all we need is Jesus in our hearts! Wow!!!! So on this past Sunday (Palm Sunday) it was so much fun seeing our two little boys up singing HOSANNA! HOSANNA! HOSANNA!!!!! They were so proud too at the front of the church, waving their palm branches up and down. So being a proud Momma I have to share this with you! In just a few years I won't be able to believe that they did this and it melts my heart to be their Momma. 

Little Eggs!

Here is an attempt at making the Mod Podge Easter Eggs balloons with yarn. Some of the water balloons deflated, which means that the yarn and mad podge turns into a round little rats nest. I was originally going to have them be on a garland but I wasn't expecting them to deflate so I choose to put them in a glass bowl instead. 

Things needed:

Yard

Scissors

Balloons

Mod Podge

Flat surface to let them dry (It took my more than 24 hours to dry)

Blow up as many balloons as you would like to have for either garland or decorations and then I would do a few extra!!!!  Pour out the mod podge in a bowl and then soak the cut yarn in the mod podge. I used smaller string and my friend used longer strings. It is up to you! Then start to wrap the balloon in whatever way you would like. I really like the all over criss-cross once the balloon is popped. Once you feel like enough of the balloon is covered with the yarn then you can start on the next one. Mod podge  has a stink to it and once it dries it is hard to get off your hands so.... Be CAREFUL!

And finally the eggs that made it through! I chose to do pastel, boy colors seeing how I am the only girl and not the biggest fan of pink and I didn't have a lilac so that was that! It was a blast getting to hang out with some friends for a couple of hours while the kiddos played.

My eldest son wanted me to share his special verse from Awana about Easter.
Luke 24:6
He is not here. He has risen!

The Letter "H"

So I have been working with my son MJ (3) on his writing letters and so on... Here is some of the stuff we did for the letter "H"
We started with the letter "H" because we were going over his Cubbie (AWANA ministry) book trying to achieve the Apple Tree sticker and there was a little Project that you could do to help you remember the verses and they were chain HEARTS. So then I got way ambitious and thought that we could make some for the other Cubbies  (AWANA age 3-5) seeing how it was January we would have time for V-Day.

So the chain hearts are easy to do. You fold a piece of paper into a fan and then make a cut out of a heart half.

Once you finish the  folding the paper all the way then you simply cut a heart shape out but you only have to cut the large curve and the angle.

Then unfold it and you can add what ever you would like. My son loves to put the first verse that he learned on it " 1 John 4:8 God is love".  We added some stickers on them and a colored on them and made an awesome memory and project that he helped with.

We had fun sending them to our cousins and Grandparents! This is one of them that we sent on to some of the family Of course it is a different verse than I had mention.

So then we started to talk about other things that begin with a "H." We then complied a this of things that began with "H" such as hat, hair, head, happy, hazel, heart and hippopotamus. So then I made a quick scrabble to the craft area and pulled out a bunch of things that we could do to make stuff with the letter "H." We grabbed some popsicle sticks, felt, sharpie, yarn, and paper with handwriting paper.

We then made the letter "H" with popsicle sticks. 

I then wanted to describe to my son with word actions of how to create the capital letter H.

Big line down. Big line down. Little line across. 

He really seems to understand those terms. For his first attempt at drawing the letter H he did a very impressive job.

Then we drew a head I tried to make a face shape with a sharpie on the and got some glue and glued some hair to it. 

He was super pumped about the one on one time with his momma since his brother was napping and he also really likes to learn so this was right up his alley.

I think we will do a letter of the week for a little bit and  continue to work on his verses for Awana together.