Dance off!

Need a giggle? Want to see each of the different personalities we have on a daily basis? You've GOT to watch this video! Gather your friends around, this is about as cute as it gets...

Random Pictures - Fun in the Sun!

Happy Easter!

One of the funny things about working with 18-24 month olds is that the art/craft projects rarely turn out looking like what I had envisioned during planning. But, in my mind they're always cuter than that anyway because you can find the child's creative personality in everything s/he creates. These are Easter baskets that we made! The children picked what color of paper they wanted to wrap the margarine/yogurt/cottage cheese container in (they all picked the same, imagine that!) and then I put glue dots on the foam pieces that the children stuck all over the containers. Originally, I made accessible the purple, yellow, and green ovals - hoping they would look like Easter Eggs - but the kids had so much fun gluing, that I decided to bring out the whole bag of foam shapes and let them go crazy. They all decorated their containers with glee - but most of them ended up taking half or more of teh shapes off... after all, it's just as fun to peel a glued-something as it is to glue one!

Anyway, I wrapped their final project in contact paper to help protect it (hehe!) and then I put pipe cleaner handles on to make the basket.

The baskets have real grass in them! We planted some grass seeds in an aluminum pie plate, and the kids have watched the grass grow over the last month or so. Today, I cut some grass pads out of the pie plate and put them in their homemade easter basket. Then, I filled the basket with a few goodies (no candy!) .... The kiddos will get to take these home today. I hope they like them!