R is for Rainbow

Unfortunately most of our class was sick and missed out on our March 16th class. We started out by figuring out the leprechaun color code and coloring rainbows.

Next, I had them paint over their picture to see that the crayon resists (or repells) the water in the paint!

Finally, they glued some cotton balls on to be puffy clouds and used a special metalic gold marker for the gold.

We made some rockets out of toilet paper tubes, but haven't figured out how to launch them off yet. Hopefully there will be an update on them soon.

Next, we ate our snack of rainbow cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. They were yummy, but sure time consuming to make the night before!

After snack and some books, we made red ribbon rhythm wands and decorated the handle with colorful, small rubber bands.

Here they are using them to the radio.


Lastly, we made footprint rabbits. They turned out so cute!

R is for Rainbow

Again, getting this in at the last minute and I didn't type in the sites where these crafts came from. Please click on the picture to be taken there for instructions! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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ribbon scrap rainbows

rockets that really fly

color sort recycling

rainstick

cotton ball rabbits

Froot Loop rainbow

resist art

Little Red Riding Hood puppets

rainbow door hanger

rhythm ribbons

Roll A Rainbow dice game

rock necklaces

raincloud mobile

rubber glove finger puppets

footprint rabbit

handprint rainbow

roadway with painter's tape

rainbow bath paints

roll and paint shamrocks

rabbit bowling

rainbow and cloud

Row, row, row your boat song

rainbow cupcakes

magnetic race game

rainbow ribbon treasure hunt

rainbow shelf liner embroidery

rainbow stained glass animals

rainbow letter matching game

Little Red Riding Hood paper story craft

rainbow sun catcher

rocketship with aliens

rainbow chain St. Patty's hanger

rollaway rock resurrection craft

pipe cleaner rabbit puppet

rainbow and pot 'o gold hat

L is for Lion and Lamb

March 2nd, L day, was a beautiful day and we went outside to look for rocks that we could paint like ladybugs. (Well, after we finished our "catching some zzzz's" craft that was from the week before.) We mainly found the rounded rocks for our craft at the edge of our yard (thank you Joy for digging around!) but then we went to the rock pile behind our house where neighbors like to four-wheel. It has more jaggedy rocks, but it was fun to climb!



Even our dog, Crumpet, enjoyed herself.

We painted them red,

then added spots with a q-tip. Great ladybugs! I forgot to get a picture of all the kids' cute work, but here are mine, my sister Joy's (who helps out a ton), and Christian's.

We then made the cutest note holders by looping lovely yarn on some cardboard circles, then adding heads and eyes. They had a lamb on one side,

and a lion on the other! (I had the kids do the simple google eye faces and then had fun later jazzing mine up.)

I let the kids form their own lollypop cookies and they were delicious! Find the recipe here.

Because of all of our outside play, we were running late, so we didn't get to this craft until after Breck left :( We made leprechaun masks with loopy locks of orange for beards!

Here's me,

Joy,

and the kids! I love that Christian did his entirely by himself, but Sierra did her own hat and then lost interest.

We also laced these lucky three leaf clover lacing cards.