The Hunt is on

We are loving our new neighborhood. They do alot of fun stuff together. On Saturday we had an early Easter Egg Hunt. There were about 15 families that participated and 50 kids, so we each put 50 eggs in our yard and the kids went around and could find one egg in each yard. It was a blast. The kids really loved it and havent stopped eating candy since.


We Check out the pic of the all the kids. We were so amazed They all stood still long enough for a photo.

What could be more fun.....

Budd decided the other night that he really needed a new past time, since he has stopped gaming for now and he wanted to get a pet for the kids and this is what he decided on....





























Yup, Gerbils. We picked them up monday night and wow have then been a hit for the kids, and the one big kid. The kids even named them. Brinlee's is the tan one and she named it Teeka, she totally made up the name. Spencer named the black one Bubba and he calles it "My Bubba or My rabbit" It is so cute. Budd lets them get in the empty tub with them and they run around and tickle their toes. I never knew how much fun it would be for the kids. Very cool.

Great website for Preschoolers

I found this awesome website today while looking for preschool art ideas. It has everything from numbers, letters, art ideas and everything for kids. Plus it gives you all the templates for everything, and you can print out letter and number practice pages. It really is great. I think i will be using it all the time and I though all moms out there with young kids would like it.

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/artapp.htm

Greek Vases

Here are a couple of the Greek vases my 5-7 year old students made. I was so impressed with them. We talked about the history of greek vases and I showed them pictures of real ones. We also talked about the designs they made .Then they chose which kind of vase they wanted to do and we used black crayon to draw it and put designs on it. Then we painted it with orange tempera paint. Pretty simple.

Egyptian Art

Check out these cool Egyptian Sarcophagus that we did in my Cultural Art class. It was my first time doing it and i thought they turned out so awesome. Good job students! Click on the pic to be able to see the details.

Playing in the Sink

One day my kids asked if they could play in the sink. It started by sitting on the edge and just playing with cups and their hands in the water. Then Spency sat in the sink, and Brinlee soon followed. They loved it and still ask to do it all the time. How i miss being a kid and being entertained by the simplest things.

Castles

I found these cool looking packaging box things at the school i teach at and thought they would be perfect for making castles. Since Brinlee is so into castles and princess, i brought them home and let the kids paint them. They loved it.