It's been a busy few weeks in our house but we still managed to get in our letter crafts, so what if it took 2 weeks to cover the letter I...
James and Savannah made a golf course for the letter G, they did it while I wasn't home so we didn't get any pictures of the craft in process but as you can see it turned out very cute. They are both quite proud of their creation.
We also made a giraffe, once again she was more interested in smearing the paint everywhere instead of using thumbprints like I had intended but the only thing that really matters is that she has fun.
For the letter H we made a house, I cut out all the pieces and then let show me where to put the windows and doors (and then I may or may not have straightened them up a little) and then she got to use the glittery paint to decorate which was definitely her favorite part.
We also made a hippopotamus, luckily we had packing peanuts lurking in an empty box and they proved to perfect for hippo teeth!
Coming up with crafts for the letter I was quite difficult! The only thing I could really think of was ice and even if all our ice cube trays weren't packed (more on that in a minute), I'm sure that Savannah wouldn't find filling up trays and sticking them in the freezer to be all that exciting.
Then I remembered that we had some ice pop trays hiding in the island so I put a few drops of food coloring in them before I filled them up and froze them, the result was colored cylinders of ice which we put in the bath tub with her. She wasn't sure about them at first because they were so cold but she got over that pretty quickly and was able to play with them for a few minutes before they melted in the warm bath.
And thanks to a great idea from Gammie and Papa, we also made an indian headdress. I cut out everything and glued it together then let her decorate it, she wasn't able to squeeze the glitter paint as well this time so I squeezed it into random designs and then let her smear it around with a wooden skewer (again, pretty much everything is packed) and then let her decorate some more with a paint pen. She wasn't interested in modeling it herself but James was happy to show it off.
She also painted her nails with the paint pen, I think that might have been her favorite part.
And this is one of the very few genuine smiles we have ever been able to capture, usually we get the CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE grin, and it is a result of me hittng my head on the corner of the chair when I bent down to pick something up, she found it to be hilarious.
So, if you haven't guessed - we are moving! We closed on a new home late Friday afternoon and I spent the weekend painting closets and Savannah's bedroom while James got the kitchen cabinets ready to be painted. Big thanks to ZZ for watching Savannah on Saturday so we could get started on that!! And we did all that in a house with no electricity - it was supposed to be turned on Friday but I missed a field when I filled out the request online so it didn't get turned on until today. Poor James had to sand all the cabinets by hand and I had to paint closets in the dark, thank goodness for that handy flashlight app on the iPhone!
