Art

I'm getting antsy for fall weather so the girls painted fall trees this week, taken from one of my favorite blogs
In the last couple of weeks, Isabelle came down with a fever that lasted about a day, and a few days later Melina got it. I used this activity to reinforce good handwashing techniques, since I'm a little paranoid with illness and having a new baby in the house. Can't find the link to the blog I used for this activity, so basically I sprinkled cinnamon on Isabelle's wet hands to represent the germs and then she washed. Melina did it too, but the pictures aren't exactly G-rated since she didn't have any clothes on.
And, since we had the cinnamon out, we used a few more spices and did this craft:

Crafts

The girls made these cute sunglasses at a Mom's Club craft we attended recently.

My great friend, Megan, takes the girls for a couple of hours ever so often and they made these flowers out of egg cartons.

And, we did a quick craft of our own in preparation of The Assumption of Mary.

Spiders, Sailboats, and Inchworms

We hosted a craft day with one of Isabelle's playgroups and made spider hats (from my favorite crafty blogging mom) and sailboats.





A couple of days later, again from the above blog, we made inchworms:

Crafts

Isabelle loves to do crafts. I am just not a "crafty" sort of mom, but I am making a resolution to do at least 2 crafts a week with her. There is a blog I've been reading, click here if interested, and this mom seems to do a craft or some type of baking with her 4 kids every day! If we get close to 2 crafts a week, great!! Here are our first 2 crafts taken from her website, crickets and a shark: