4H Cooking Class

One of the ladies in our group showed the girls how to make bread and gave them some ideas on different ways to use bread. The girls each got a HUGE chunk of bread dough and was able to try out some different ideas.

Here's a few that they came up with:

This is a turtle with raisins..and the braids were made by the girls. Cute, huh?

This is Hailey's tiny tiny tiny bread braid.

Hailey's snowflake

Aliya's tiny tiny tiny crescent roll (it is in front of the normal size roll)

Emily's pig

July 4th Shirts

Mmmm...the 4th of July kinda snuck up on me. Actually a lot of things are doing that nowadays. Haha!

It was like July 2nd and I realized that I had not thought of anything. We had made these spray paint tye dye shirts at girl's camp and I thought they would be perfect. The kids can help design and spray them.

We ended up making them on July 3rd - just in time!

I cut out their name and stars using my silhouette. I used contact paper - but you could also you vinyl. I let them apply the stickers and then we got to work spray painting. I should have taken pics - but I had my hands full with FOUR girls!!

Basically, you just scrunch up the t-shirt or twist the t-shirt and then spray paint. The kids loved making them..and here's what we ended up with.
Jeff was worried about how they would hold up to washing and in case you're wondering - they look great. Here's a picture of Calista & Hailey's shirts AFTER being washed.

Another 4-H Project

I have 2 words for you.....Mod Podge

I can't believe that some of these girls have not even heard of Modge Podge. haha! I use it all the time and it's so much fun.

I picked a pretty easy project for the girls. I found these wood frames for $1 at Michael's Craft Store..add some scrapbook paper and you're ready to go!!

Check out how cute they are:

Father's Day

Because I can't go in to my husband's office very often (security reasons) - I don't get to keep his desk pictures up-to-date. Periodically he will say to me, hey I need some new pics - mine are getting a bit dated. It's been awhile since I gave him pics so I thought it would be perfect for father's day.

I was reminded of a Christmas card that we did a couple of years back that spelled JOY and thought I could do the same thing but spell DAD. The biggest difference is that I found a 'cool' background online and photoshopped the kids into it. hahaha!!! People have already asked me where the pic was taken and I have to laugh...

Check it out:

4-H Project Clothespin Dolls

Here we are with another 4-H project. I got some of these a couple weeks ago and my kids had so much fun making them. I thought they would be a really fun 4-H project. It's always so fun to see what the kids come up with. My kids have made ninjas, police officers, princesses, themselves, etc.

So, here are some examples of what can be done with clothespin dolls:

4-H Projects

I LOVED doing 4-H as a kid. I looked into it last year but couldn't find a group close to us. I debated starting one but was worried about how big it may get - I mostly just wanted to do activities with my kids. Luckily, a neighbor is familiar with 4-H and we ended up doing a small group this summer with her kids, my kids, and 2 other moms. It has been fun and we split the classes up so we each teach twice. It will be fun when we enter our stuff into the fair this fall.

So, I'm gonna take a few posts and share what we are doing for 4-H.

Our first project was candle making. We made a couple different types of candles - and the girls even got to try their hand at old fashion candle making which ended up pretty interesting. Here is a pic of the finish project!
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Teacher Appreciation Gift Day 5

Well...I kinda had to scramble to get this project together. Haha - sometimes our best plans just don't work out.

I have had this idea for a week or so that I wanted my kids to make up "fortunes" for their teachers and then I was going to MAKE fortune cookies and put the fortunes inside the cookies, put them in a chinese take out bag and include a note that said, "I'm FORTUNATE to have you as a teacher." Well, we have been so busy with end of the year activities that I didn't get my kids to sit down and write fortunes until last night. And so at 10:00pm, I start making fortune cookies. They are NOT super hard to make, however they did take some time and practice on learning how to cook them just right and fold them. I went through the first batch and only had about 6 cookies that were decent. It's now 11:30pm and I have lost all motivation for this project....maybe next year. Although, I absolutely LOVED one of Chance's fortunes for his teacher. He said, "You will be haunted by cookies." So cute - wish I could have made this one work.

And so early this morning, I had my kids sit down with at the computer (thank goodness for computers!) and we came up with these. Luckily, I had the kid's class lists on hand. I thought about having them come up with words that described their teacher - but I was VERY short on time so we just used the names of all the kids in the class.

We used this website to create this project: Tagxedo

Calista's teacher gift (her teacher served a mission to Mongolia and has taught the kids alot about Mongolia. She loves the people of Mongolia so very much and it is very important to her so we made her gift in the shape of Mongolia.)
Hailey's teacher gift - the website has some premade shapes and Hailey picked a heartChance's teacher gift - Chance's teacher LOVES music and so we used a music note. (to come)