Summer Plans

Summer vacation has officially started and Hailey has plans of keeping busy by doing school work all summer.  So, to keep her busy and happy I have made some plans for this summer.  Today was our first day- and while she wants to work all day long, I told her we would do school work in the morning and she would spend the afternoon playing and relaxing.

Here are a couple of things we did today:

Since I do not have a place to put a word wall, we made a word folder.  We have sight words, color words, number words and days of the week in here.  We’ll be adding more sight words throughout the summer.

We also made a schedule today of what we will do each morning.  For art time Hailey drew pictures to go with our schedule.

For the most part I will just be posting the different art activities that we do.  Since Hailey is home and I actually have someone to do crafts with hopefully I’ll be posting more than once a week!

Father’s Day Pen Holder

I know Father’s Day is over, but I wanted to share what Hailey made this year:

We took a can with no sharp edges and washed it.  Hailey painted using water colors on a piece of paper and we glued that to the can.  She added the #1 DAD and a picture of her and Hunter.  Rich can use it to keep his pens and pencils in.

Forget-Me-Not Teacher Gift

This is what Hailey made for her teachers this year:

She decorated a flower pot with acrylic paint.  Then we added this poem:

This past year, we’ve had a blast
I sure wish that it could last
I will miss you more than a lot
And I hope you will Forget-Me-Not

We added a flower stick with her picture on it and the words “Forget-Me-Not,” some dirt in a bag with a pretty ribbon and some Forget-Me-Not seeds.

The finished gift

Father’s Day Ideas

Here is a cute and simple frame:

And here is a cute “I Love You to Pieces” frame: