::April Boards of the Past::

Well here's my boards from April. I forgot to post them. April is often a little tricky, sometimes there's Easter and sometimes, like this year, there isn't. Most times I just go with a spring theme. It's pretty safe.

Here's my board from 2011. We made Easter eggs and I turned them into an "Easter egg tree." 

 Here's my board from 2012: One of my very favorites. We made sheep by blowing bubbles with paint and cute little chicks. Those sheep are one of my very favorite projects I've ever done. 

 I know I already shared this board, but I figured I'll put all the April boards in one spot. :)

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::May Board UPDATE::

So I messed up. I forgot to post my April boards from the past! This is actually my board for May. And June. Oops. We made little scuba men and I for one think they're adorable! I don't think there's much to explain because the board speaks for itself. 

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::May Boards of The Past::

Wow! I've been MIA for awhile I loads of projects and ideas to share with you as well as some book reviews that have been piling up. Sorry I haven't been around, time has once again flown past me!

Part of the reason that I've been gone is that my husband and I just celebrated our one year anniversary and I threw myself into planning our trip to Portland, Oregon (I'll share some pictures of our trip too - Portland is a GREAT city for kids). We obviously didn't do all the things geared for kids but there is so much for them to do there. It would make a wonderful family vacation spot. More on that later...

Today I'm going to share my May boards of the past. Sometimes May boards are a conundrum for me. I always end up asking myself if I should stick to spring or make it a summerish board that I can leave up through June. You'll see what I mean:

I did this board in 2011 as a homage to my mom. She loves birds and birdhouses and I thought it was the perfect spring board. The houses turned out so cute and it just looked so happy!

 This was in 2012. One of those boards that I kept up through June. By far one of my favorite boards! We made envelope sharks, coffee filter fish, and bowl jelly fish. 

 And now this year's board. We did our interpretation of Eric Carle's, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." 

 Here's our caterpillars on their leaves.

 And here's the ice cream and pie he ate through.

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::March Board::

Here's my board for March and let me tell you, I'm super excited about it! I decided to avoid anything that was directly related to March holidays like St. Patty's Day because Easter is also happening in March this year. Dr. Seuss' birthday is in March so I decided to go that rout. I was inspired by this board that I found on Pintrest.

I had the kids make "Thing One & Two's," pom pom Truffula tree, and Lorax. They turned out wonderful! We added fleece to his mustache for more texture and to take it to the next level.

I used my mom's tracer to blow up a picture of Pipsqueak to add some fun to the board.

Here's a close up of our Lorax and Truffula tree. 

I hope you like my board as much as I do. It's my favorite of this year. I'm so happy with how it turned out! 

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::International Thinking Day::

February 22nd is International Thinking Day. We made Albert Einstein's in recognition of the day. I forgot to add the eyebrows on mine and that means the kids forgot to add eyebrows. Oops! 

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::Watercolor Birds::

I found this idea on Pintrest also. It's from this website that is chalk full of art lessons for kids! AWESOME resource. It's based of Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs." I altered the project a little because I wanted to put it up now and leave it up through March. My example has snow falling on it but I didn't have the kids do that. 

Here's all the kids birds:

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::Ab Lincolns::

Halfway through February I changed my board over from Valentine's to President's day. I really wanted to make an Abraham Lincoln because I'm so obsessed with him right now. Ever since I saw "Lincoln" I've been reading and watching documentaries on him. I found this idea on Pintrest and loved it because it was simple shapes and really gets the point across. Without further ado...here's Ab!

Here's my example:

Ab Hall of Fame:

This poor guy got confused on where the beard was supposed to go...lol!

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::Dino-mite Valentine's Day::

For February I wanted to do something a little different for Valentines day. I didn't want to do anything cheesy or expected. So I came up with the idea to make dinosaurs. They turned out so cute and a lot of parents really loved them. 

Here's my sample dino:

Here's the dino hall of fame. Some of them are pretty hilarious. 

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::Wacky Owls::

Here's a close up of the owls we made for the January board. They're a little funky and kinda weird but I like them. I got the inspiration from this idea on the website smaller. 

Here's my owl:

Owl Hall of Fame:

The eyes are made out of egg cartons and the body/wings are construction paper that the kids designed.

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::Sugar Snow Hand Prints Trees::

Yesterday we made something fun. We made hand print trees and added sugar for snow. It was my boss' idea and they turned out so pretty! This top one is the one my boss made:

Hall of Fame:

Pretty simple project: take a piece of construction paper for the background and a piece of construction paper for the snowline. Using a sponge to make a tree trunk and also to paint the kids hands. After making the tree, glue the white snowline. When the paint is dry, use a glue stick and draw wherever you want snow to be. Sprinkle sugar over the glue and tap off the excess sugar. 

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::December Wrap Up::

I realized I forgot to post some of our other projects that we did in December. Our room looked great. The kids made snowflakes and we hung them from the ceiling and we had lots of wintery things up!

 Here's something we did with water colors.

 They drew their scene with crayon and then painted it out with water colors. Then we used a hole punch to make snow flakes.

 I love this one. It's such an unusual perspective for a snowman. They turned out so cute!

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::Little Foxes::

Here's our cute little foxes. They turned out so adorable, I couldn't be happier. The girls wanted to add bows  to their foxes which I thought was totally cute.

Here's my two favorite little foxes. 

Here's the template for the fox. Sorry there's so many pages...I couldn't fit them all together. 

The first page can be copied or traced on white paper.

Once these two pages are put together they can obviously be copied or traced on orange.

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