100 again.

happy 100 days of school!

it is customary at the elementary school for kindergartners to create an artful project displaying 100. slade celebrated 100 days last year with this sweet idea. it now proudly hangs in our toy room.

this year, elle celebrates the first 100 days of school with her love for pasta. she painted a bowl with a heart and added 100 pieces of ziti rigati.

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kindergarten project.

what do you think of elle's transportation project??

the assignment was to create a means of transportation. it could be anything that travels by land, air or sea. we chose the hot air balloon and created it out of paper mache. i have always loved the technique and was excited to introduce it to elle. i think she did a wonderful job choosing the colors and painting. with my help, we created the basket out of a small take-out box covered with pieces cut from an old straw hat.

she was definitely proud to turn it yesterday. and i hoping her presentation goes well today.

i love books.

It was the theme at the preschool this week. And today, the girls had to dress as a storybook character. The ideas were endless, yet they both settled on characters they are crazy about right now. Elle decided on Strawberry Shortcake and Sia wanted to be Olivia, from the books by Ian Falconer. So, we went through their closets and my craft drawers and came up with their costumes. I was very happy with the way they turned out and Elle and Sia were all smiles as they headed off to school.

100th day cookies.

sugar cookies iced, packaged and ready to send into school

Today is the 100th day of school. Slade is in kindergarten this year... so, this marks the 100th day of many more hundreds of days he will attend school. In order to celebrate and mark this milestone in a kindergartner's life, I made giant sugar cookies of the number 100 for his entire class.

And of course, as I was icing and sprinkling sugar, Slade, Elle and Sia wanted to do their own cookie decorating. So, I gave them each a circle cookie to decorate as they wish. Don't they look awesome?? I love all the colors.... so vibrant and yummy!

cookies with lots of icing and sugar
decorated by sia, elle & slade (in that order too)

crayon hearts.

Slade and I gave some new life to some of the broken crayons that have been sitting at the bottom of the bucket. We made translucent hearts out of crayon shavings and wax paper and hung them in our kitchen window. The sunlight shines through the hearts perfectly during the day. The idea came from an old issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine. And, it totally brought back memories of elementary school art projects from years ago. I loved art then, and still love to dive into anything that allows me to be creative.

100 days.

Slade is celebrating 100 days of being in school in his kindergarten class this week. As a tradition, the teacher asked children to make a poster of 100 items so they may see just what 100 of something looks like.

After talking about many things, Slade decided he wanted to use marshmallows. So, he made a poster of a giant cup of hot cocoa and glued 100 marshmallows in the cup. I love his imagination and creativity. He had asked me if he could put real cocoa in the cup on his poster, so after putting a thin layer of glue, he sprinkled it with cocoa. And then, glued the marshmallows on top of that. He sponged blue paint on the background and of course, put a big "S" on the mug that he decided to paint brown.

He was so proud of his finished project. What an amazing smile he had upon its completion. He couldn't wait to take it to school to show his class.