Bee Mine... Bumble Bee Valentine Day Fun!

Bumble Bees, Writing Practice, Paint Hearts, and Pinto Bean Math

Here it is.....! MJ's sweet little bumble bee. I had already decided to that everyone in the family would do a Valentine's Day bee.

This craft was very simple. We took stuff that we already had and used them! 

What we needed:

Toilet paper roll

Craft sticks

Permeant marker 

Googly eyes

Felt for wings and nose

Glitter

Glue (I like to use a hot glue gun)

Yellow and Black construction paper

At this point my every-so-sweet 2 year old is up now. He destroyed all of the piles and what I was doing and even lost one of my googly eyes. This mad one irritated Mama! It was so much fun because he was whining and wanting to do a bumble bee too, and MJ was wondering what he could do next! So I pulled out the paint and let them paint! JD did it later and I wasn't able to get photos of him but they each made enough to send to both set of grandparents and to decorate the house with! All it took was me grabbing a bunch of typing paper and drew some large hearts on the pictures, I finished up doing my bee and work on JD work on his. Dada did his once he go home for dinner.

Now I can't remember when this happened but I am sure it was well little man was sleeping. MJ loves to tell people about our puppy! So I figure why not let him write about it! He was very proud of this when he was all done.  Then I tried to do replicate from what I remember about school and did repeat the a few of words individually.

I got this idea from Webster's Early Learning Center's Math Night about 3 years ago, when we went to go with my BBF's son. I wrote the number of beans that go in each slot and then grabbed a heaping pile of pinto beans. Then I gave him directions and that was that. Next he had to ignore the numbers and count by twos. JD even enjoyed to do this.

I really like the February/Valentine's Day mantle.

On the 1st day of February....

The Reeser Family is getting ready for Valentine's Day this year!

Instead of being a Valentines Day Grinch.... I choose to turn it into a fun example of how God loves us, just like we do with the other holidays that I love.

So what better way to show Valentine's Day than hugs and kisses, XOXO! We ran to Walmart and got two of each x's and o's. The next day we got everything ready: paint colors chosen, paint brushes, newspaper on table.... but wait Mama's got to take a picture first! CHEESE!!!!

I am making O's on my O!

Doing a great job getting the letter O covered everywhere with the color pink.

On the first day of FEBRUARY mama made for us! Cinnamon Swirl Bread (Pepperidge Farm) heart shaped french toast, bacon and not-so-good-looking heart shaped strawberries.

Thankfully we already purchased our valentines cards from last year (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for fifty cents) and other than purchasing the x's and o's we really didn't have to spend much money. I don't plan on spending money on too many other things for our fun ideas that I may create or have gotten it off of Pinterest. And we are also going to use the 3 R's from things around the house. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

I know that the Lord will help me to share His love with my family and others and that is why I choose to make this month fun and exciting. Attitude is everything, I know that my family and friends, can tell with I am not excited about something. Life is an adventure and I am so blessed to get to experience it with my husband and two little boys. No matter the hardship, or how I feel I need to rejoice in what the Lord has done! I am so thankful to serve the Almighty Lord who give me grace, love and hope even when I am not in the mood! In my devotions I read  Romans 8 and so much of what it shared about is the things that I have been struggling with.

Nothing can take that away from my LORD and his LOVE!!!!!!!!!

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.