We made a flag to celebrate the 4th of July.

Here’s what you’ll need- construction paper, star stickers and glue.

Cut out some red stripes and a blue square.

Add some star stickers to the blue square.

Glue the red stripes onto your white construction paper.

Enjoy your flag.

After our failed attempt at fireworks the other day I decided we would try a different method.

Here’s what you’ll need: paper, glitter and glue.

Put the glue on in the shape of fireworks and then sprinkle with glitter.

Pretty sparkly fireworks.

You’ve worked hard all day, dinner is over, the dishes are done and it’s time to relax.  You grab a cup of coffee and the newspaper and head out to your patio to relax.  You’re just settling in and enjoying reading the news when buzz, buzz… the mosquitoes join you.  And they start biting.  Not only is that annoying but mosquitoes can carry diseases too.

It’s time to consider some mosquito traps.  The mosquito magnet is a trap that attracts and captures the mosquitoes and other insects that bite that are hanging out in your yard.  It’s the perfect way to be able to enjoy summer time outside without all of the annoying bugs!

Today we went to the house that will hopefully be ours someday.  We wanted to take some measurements just in case the closing happens sometime in our lifetime.  Anyhoo- as I was looking around the outside of the house I was imagining some of the changes we would want to make.  The deck is one- it’s too small.  The outdated looking bushes are another- I have some wonderful plans for those.  I did see a cute little bird feeder that I would like to keep.  I was also looking at some hummingbird feeders and I saw some of the best hummingbird feeders- they are so beautiful and having a bird feeder that would attract them would add so much to the backyard.  The backyard that will hopefully be ours before Hailey gets married.

We are taking a little break from our space theme to do some July 4th related activities.  So today we tried to make some fireworks.  We did a fireworks project last year using paint and it didn’t work because it was too thick.  So this year I tried using food coloring- but that didn’t work either.

We used bowls, paper, straw, food coloring and a box.

I put little spots of food coloring on the paper and had Hailey blow into the straw to spread it around.  It was supposed to look like fireworks but as you can see it didn’t really work.  As a side note- if you try this- I poked 2 little holes near the top of the straw so that she couldn’t suck up the liquid.

Our finished failed attempt at fireworks.

Come back tomorrow to see our fireworks that actually turned out!  And if you know how to make this idea work- please advise!!