Minnie Mouse Birthday Party

It has been over 2 months since Harper’s first birthday party, and I am just getting around to posting pictures. I keep telling myself that I am going to catch up on my blogging, but there just doesn’t seem to be time to do it.

Harper loves Minnie Mouse, so we decided on a Minnie Mouse themed party.

Harper’s chair all decorated for the occasion.

Napkins made to look like Minnie’s bow

Pink candy buffet

The table for all of the food… which I forgot to take a picture of it after I put all the food out.

Harper’s birthday cake

The “Mouse-ka-tools” for eating.

The little birthday girl

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…”

Ready for some yummy food

She didn’t like her birthday hat 🙁

Hunter said he would wear the hat for her, haha

I can’t believe she’s already 1!!

Showing us that she is 1.

Trying out the slide

Some of the kids at her party enjoying the trampoline

Big sister Hailey

Some of the other guests

Harper’s smash cake

Not too sure what to think

She didn’t know what to do with her cake

Pa talked it over with her and tried to explain 🙂

Finally Uncle Nick put her hand into the cake

Then she understood 🙂

 Opening some presents

Harper had a great first birthday!!

African Savanna Diorama

We are using Sassafras Science this year, and so far we are both really enjoying it! We have been studying Zoology and it has been so much fun!  The first habitat we studied was the African Savanna.  It worked out perfectly with our trip to Disney World, where we stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge.

 Hailey made an African Savanna diorama to show what she had learned.  She painted, created trees, made some green grass for the wet season, and colored printables for the African Savanna animals.

 Hailey’s completed African Savanna.

Fall Tree Craft

We made these really easy fall trees, and they turned out cute. I love easy and cute art projects!

I gave Hunter a piece of brown, already cut out, to use as a tree trunk.  Then I put some fall colored paint onto a paper plate and gave him a shower pouf to stamp some leaves on the tree.

Harper made one too- her very first painting.

Hailey also made one, but she painted her own tree trunk.

The completed fall trees.

Weekly Wrap Up

Since we are several days into October, I thought it was time I finished up our activities from our summer learning fun.  Our last theme for the summer was Jack and Beanstalk.  Of course, we read Jack and Beanstalk every day, and several times some days.  Both boys really liked the story.

Hunter and Anthony colored some bags of gold.

They practiced their cutting.

Then they matched up the pictures they had cut out and glued them.

They worked on a “which one is different” page.

Anthony cut out some numbers and then glued them onto the square that had that number of beans.

They worked on a q-tip painting of the letter B for beans and J for Jack.

I made a little beanstalk and Anthony thought it was fun to have his superheros climb up the beanstalk.

We put beans and a wet paper towel into a ziploc bag, then hung them up on a window.  It was fun to watch the beans sprout.

We made this little picture- some beans on the bottom, green tissue paper for the beanstalk and some clouds.

(Printables from 1+1+1=1)

Jack and the Beanstalk was such a fun little unit! We had a great time!!