Free easel + Gifted Paint Set + Roll of paper + Chalk = Loads of fun!
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Easel Fun Free easel + Gifted Paint Set + Roll of paper + Chalk = Loads of fun! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks!
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After doing our thing at our home Easter morning, we headed over to Grandmommy's to celebrate some more. This year's celebration was not the same because it was our first Easter without Pap-poo. She passed away last July, so it's been hard celebrating all of the holidays without her. She had created so many traditions that my mother and father have continued. One of those traditions was putting out the ceramic bunny (pictured here) for decoration. It just wasn't spring/Easter until this little guy was put out. I was so thankful that my mother brought the bunny out this year. Even though I know Pap-poo is in heaven, I felt like a little piece of her was watching over our celebration.
The Master's Tip: Make the cakes the night before. This makes it easier to apply the icing the next day on the cut parts which can get "crumby" with a freshly baked cake. Decorations Shaba Girl did most of the decorating this year. Everywhere I looked, I would find another bunny, chick, duck or other Easter-y decoration. It really made the house feel springy and festive. Shaba Girl's attention to detail amazes me sometimes. I love these ceramic eggs (pictured below) my mother painted about thirty years ago. She put them on display in the kitchen window. (They are in the "glasses" I got my parents for their anniversary!) Can't forget the Easter lily (pictured below). My father bought a lily for my mother. They usually bought one for Pap-poo at Easter. Treats I packaged the Easter Story Snack mix for my family in these cute little cardboard chick boxes. Everyone seemed to enjoy their treat and the story that went along with it. I had everyone pick a number to see who got to choose something from the Prize Basket first. I had filled the basket with some traditional Easter candies and other chocolates as well as some fun items like hand sanitizer and an Incredible Hulk washcloth (which Joe chose). It was fun to have everyone get a prize "just because" and everyone could participate. Traditional Egg Hunt I can't even explain the feeling I got seeing my girls hunt for eggs in the same yard that I hunted for eggs in so many years ago. My mother filled 113 eggs with dollar bills (the special eggs each child got) and change from her change container. She even taped all of the eggs closed (a labor of love, I tell you!) so my girls wouldn't pop eggs open in the yard and lose their contents. (That happened last year with Sweet Girl!) There are a lot more places to hide eggs here than in our yard! Each girl had a big egg at her starting point and then was free to go wherever they wanted in the yard. The girls had so much fun looking around in the grass and in bushes and even under bark (yes, the family members who hid the eggs were sneaky!) to collect as many eggs as they could. Shaba Girl got the most eggs with sixty, Sweet Girl came in second and Love Bug was a close third. After counting everyone's eggs--three times--my mother said one egg was missing! My sister, brother, sis-in-law and mother went looking for it, but it was my sister who found it! I would've been out there, but they beat me to it! Who says egg hunts are just for the children? :) We had a very full day of spending time with family and having fun! In between all of the fun, we did have lunch and of course, Bunny Cake! The holiday was bittersweet though as this is the last Easter we will celebrate in this house. Next year, we'll be making more memories at a new house. The day was full of blessings. We got to celebrate the risen Lord! We got a crazy deal on the pizza for lunch. The rain let up so we were able to have the egg hunt outside. Daddy was able to join us after work and have a special dinner with everyone. Time was well spent with family. Can't ask for more than that. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! We started our Easter celebrating on Saturday since Daddy had to work half the day on Sunday. The girls really enjoyed learning more about the true meaning of Easter and we read a variety of books that told the story of Jesus. We even watched a couple of videos. I really liked the VeggieTales' "An Easter Carol" video. We started our day making/eating Empty Tomb Buns and ended the night with making Resurrection Cookies. Pictures from our Easter Cooking are on this post. Below are other ways that we celebrated Easter at our house. Easter Craft We did this special craft that told the story of Easter with three pictures. The link to the pdf files I found came from here. Disclaimer: I know nothing about this site except that I liked the slides for our project.
Egg Hunt
Dying Eggs Easter Morning We started off the morning with the girls checking out their Easter baskets. They loved exploring their baskets and checking out their goodies. Next, the girls "unsealed" the oven so I could take out our Resurrection Cookies. Of course, we had to taste them! Then, we listened to church online and ate breakfast before getting ready to go to Grandmommy's for more Easter fun! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox.... Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks. Bricks and blocks on Knox on box. Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir. Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir.... Clocks on fox tick. Clocks on Knox tock. Six sick bricks tick. Six sick chicks tock. Take it further:
Word Match Activity I thought this word match exercise from Homeschool Share was so cute! While it took some time cutting out all the pieces, I love the shape of the little socks. I went through each word and picture with Sweet Girl before letting her to it on her own. She really enjoyed doing this activity. You can find this activity on this page and then download the PDF of the unit. Fox in Socks Craft This idea came from Storytime Crafts. I really wanted to do a fox that looked like the one in the book and this site has a great template. Of course, any fox craft would've done, but I wanted a Suess fox. :) Supplies needed: Fox in Socks template, brown paper lunch bag, crayons, scissors and glue stick What to do:
Fox in Socks Recipe: Noodle-Eating-Poodle Noodles This recipe comes from The Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook my husband checked out at the library. It's pretty simple and any pasta would do, but as the book says, "Squiggly, wiggly pasta in weird shapes is the choice of oodles of noodle-eating poodles!" Ingredients: 2 quarts water, 1 tsp salt, 10 ounces fusilli pasta, 2 Tbs butter or extra-virgin olive oil and 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese Supplies needed: a pasta pot or other large pot, measuring spoon, large spoons or forks, cheese grater, bowls (one to mix pasta and one for cheese), strainer What to do:
Makes 4 servings. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! We bought some fun hatching duck "eggs" at the Dollar Store this year. Sweet Girl remembers Shaba Girl having one and really wanted one for herself. So, I got one for her and Love Bug to do around Easter. All you do is put the "egg" in a jar of water and wait. The girls were very excited when their eggs got their first cracks and checked on their eggs frequently throughout the day. Of course, we used it as a learning experience to talk about how ducklings and chicks really hatch and how they grow in their shell. We also talked about how you can't help a duckling or chick out of its shell like they could help their pretend duck out of its shell. I have had the privilege of hatching chick eggs twice in the classroom. It is the most amazing thing to watch a chick push itself out of its shell. I am just amazed at how God makes things happen the way they do. I'm glad the girls got to experience a similar experience with these eggs, though not like the real thing, it was so fun to watch the anticipation in their eyes and excitement on their faces! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! This is a constant work in progress, but I wanted it up so it can be a resource. The books are listed alphabetically by the author's last name. These books will include, but are not limited to books about the season of winter, snow, snowmen and winter-type animals. I'll add to it as I come across books that we've read and liked. Allen When the Snow Comes (talks about animals getting ready for winter) Buehner Snowmen at Night Cuyler The Biggest, Best Snowman Ehlert Snowballs Howell Zoo Flakes ABC (snowflakes made with animal shapes) Murphy Baby Polar Shertle What Do You Need to Make a Snowman? Wilson Don't Be Afraid, Little Pip Wilson Mama, Why? Wilson Winter Snow Winget Sam the Snowman Easter Cooking Cinnamon Roll Bunny Faces Easter Story Snack Mix Empty Tomb Buns Resurrection Cookies **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! |
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