Birthday Countdown

In September, Will turned 9 and had a sleepover party.  Since then, Nathan (now 5) has been asking daily when his birthday will be (November).  Just about that same time, I ran across a chain calendar on Pinterest for kids that aren't proficient with a regular calendar.  I thought this might work perfectly for Nathan and I got to work. 

I included a blue ring for the day his Daddy would be back from a business trip and a black ring for Halloween.  The final one is red and is his birthday. Each morning he wakes up and cuts off a ring getting closer and closer to his birthday.  He LOVES this!

Hand Print Canvases

I'm not a really big artsy person, but when I ran across this idea on Pinterest, I knew I wanted to do it.  I picked up a cheap 3-pack of flat canvases in the craft section at Wal*Mart. If I were to do this again, I would pick up the ones with more depth like in The Mom in Madison.

First, I let the boys draw and color in their hands, names, and ages with oil pastel crayons.  Then they used water colors to paint around (and over) their handprint.   Bringing out the paints was a nice change of pace for our house. :)

Be Prepared...

I have tons of posts coming from ideas I got off of Pinterest.  Just wanted to warn you. They ARE coming. :)

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