We made these Paper Strip Pumpkin Garlands this week. They turned out so cute I think.
Here is the tutorial
We paired this with one of my favorite Pumpkin books:

The Pumpkin Patch Parable by Liz Curtis Higgs
On another note: Let the Fun Begin

Please Pray that my son doesn’t sample a taste of anything he [...]

So this is what we’ve been up to this week…..

The Kids painted a birdhouse and we added a bit of moss to the top

We’ve been enjoying fresh tomatoes from our garden

Sissy and Bubba painted their own Garden decorations

We all made some yummy jam from “ChesterBerries” we got at a local farm

Sissy & Bubba played this [...]

It was totally worth the mess

I especially loved the little sun that she drew in the corner:

And the way she spread out the green to make the grass.

What Fun!

Puff Paint is a must have for any Crafty Classroom!

It’s here!

It’s Here!

Well, at least it WAS.

I guess I missed the postman, because my Amazon order of The Christian Kids Gardening Guide had arrived, but apparently I was to busy taking my 3 year old to the Doctor to pick up the package.
So it’s here…..at the post office I assume…..
waiting for me to come get [...]

Just a quick little tutorial on how to make these cute little button flowers. Kids can make these themselves and give to Mom for mother’s day!
And don’t feel sheepish showing your children how to make them, believe me, they are more then proud to hand a bouquet of these handcrafted beauties right back [...]

Since we’ve been busy in the garden, planting all of our seeds, and working on our Gardening Lapbook, I realized that we better throw in a little bit of Garden Crafting too!

I found this amazing book called
“The Christian Kids Gardening Guide”
and I just had to order a copy for our homeschool classroom, what better way [...]