What board game are you???

What Board Game Are You?

You Are Boggle
You are an incredibly creative and resourceful person. You're able to dig deep and think outside the box to get things done.You are a non linear thinker. You don't like following directionsYou draw your inspiration from the strangest places sometimes. You're constantly inspired.

Blessings,

Amy

Egyptian Pyramids

If you are looking for the Christmas projects, I did post them. Please read below. I needed to post something again to hide the cover post from my little ones.

We are currently learning about Ancient Egypt in our history studies. It is simply amazing to myself and my kids historical and Biblical accounts of Ancient history. We are learning just so much. Today we had fun learning about the pyramids. After the kids read some books about the pyramids we added a write up for our lapbooks. I had them learn and find information about the three different types of pyramid that were built in Ancient Egypt. They are the step, smooth sided and the bent style pyramids. They added pictures of each kind and researched where in Egypt each one is found.

Next the kids got messy with sugar cubes and glue to create a step pyramid. I think they had more fun eating the cubes than building. It was quite tricky for my two younger ones. This is where Math concepts stepped in and Math patterns were formed. I will need to remember to look up some more pyramid Math problems on the internet for my oldest to solve. He enjoyed it immensely. Here are a few photos to share with you in our building process.

Hope you enjoy,

Amy

Christmas project photos to share

Well, I finally got around to taking a few photos of some of my finished Christmas projects that I worked on last weekend. Sorry I can't post all of them. I wouldn't want to spoil the fun for family reading this blog.

The first one I share with you is for Dancer. She loves to cook and the apron that she has now is in sad shape. I also wanted to make a matching one for one of her American Girl dolls. Sadly, I just had enough fabric for two. I have been trying to use up a lot of my fabric I have had stored away for years. Believe me I do have a lot. Four large storage bins filled. The color came out terrible from this angel. It is lavender with a pink rick rac trim. The one apron took me about four solid hours one night. I was up late that night after the kids were in bed sewing on my machine.

The next item I share with you is a real necessity. My oldest son Sport has a large baseball hat collection. I just don't have enough hooks or wall space in the boys room. I found the Simplicity pattern for this on sale for $1.00 over the holiday weekend. I was even blessed to find jean material in the bargain bin to be use for this project.

This next project I share with you is a very easy and quick. I finished this project in about 2 hours. All I used was a red turtleneck purchased from Walmart. I had a few different styles of Christmas fabric for Dancer to choose from. She chose the teddy bear print and I measured the desired length for the dress. I cut enough fabric to go around the whole end of the turtleneck with plenty of extra for gathering. Rule of thumb is to double the measurement of the circumference of the turtleneck. I don't thing I did exactly that but it worked. Cut the material and add a hem with lace or ric rac or another trim if desired. Run a gathering stitch and add to the base of the turtleneck and sew in place.
I even had lace left over to add some at the neck of the turtleneck. It sure is easy and she now wants me to make one for her doll to match. We shall see. I'm not sure I have enough fabric on hand but I may be able to pull something together.

I sure had fun with these projects and now I'm off to create some more.

Blessings and I hope you are inspired to create something homemade this holiday season.

Veteran's Day

Happy Veteran's Day!

We had a long weekend. Over the weekend I was able to get a jump start on my Christmas to do list. I enjoyed sewing most of the weekend working on holiday gifts for the family. I will try to post pictures soon of my different projects. Two of them are so quick, easy and cost effective. I promise to share them soon as well as our Science lapbook we are finishing up this week.

Today the family and I spent most of the day at the Richard Nixon library & museum for the Veteran's Holiday observance. The kids enjoyed putting their election skills information to the test. My oldest was amazed at how votes were tallied in years past elections. Both Dancer and Sport also remarked on how the electoral college state votes have changed since Nixon's era.

I hope you had a great holiday.
How did you spend your Veteran's holiday?
Blessings,
Amy

Easy Fall Craft

Here is an easy fall craft I did last week with the kids. We had gathered some acorns a few weeks ago from a local live oak tree and wanted to use them in a fall craft. I decided to make some fall napkin rings with the kids to decorate our Thanksgiving table.

Here are the supplies listed that we used to make these:

several paper towel tubes or toliet paper tubes

felt in fall colors

hot glue gun

raffia

acorns

First we roughly guessed the desire size for each napkin ring and cut each cardboard tube into sections. We got about 4 rings from each cardboard tube.

Next we measured and cut a piece of felt long enough to stretch across the tube and glued it into place. Lastly, we decorated each napkin ring by adding raffia and acorns.
Enjoy!

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Mesopotamian Lapbook

This past week we wrapped up our Mesopotamian Unit we had been working on. I had the kids create another lapbook with their studies. The end result came out great and they shared this this past weekend with grandparents and with Daddy later on Sunday while tast testing some dates. Here are a few photos to share. Most of the print outs found come from a printable book titled History Pockets of Ancient Civilizations from Evan-Moor. Others we such as the Mesopotamian art picture and gods pictured from a site called http://www.karenswhimsy.com/ . The rest of the ideas I put together myself (empire and Science/Technology inventions) with the help of display organizing from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ . We had fun with this unit and look forward to doing the same with our next unit Ancient Egypt.