Mother's Day Crafts

For Mother's Day, I decided to have the kids paint flowerpots to give to each of the grandmas. I figured while they were at it, they could paint some for me too! It was a week-long project, but we are finally finished. Jacob and Ellie helped with each step of the process and they did awesome!

Painting the pots

Planting the flowersEmmaline supervised from the back window

All done! Aren't they beautiful?!

Painting Birdhouses

We used to have two birdhouses hanging from the garage in the backyard, but during a wind storm this past winter, we lost one of them. I found some new wood ones for the kids to paint at Big Lots, and they were so excited to work on them this evening. Here they are "in progress" and with the finished projects:

Gabrielle is very specific in where she paints each color on her birdhouse

Jacob takes a different approach and mixes all the colors together

Gabrielle

Jacob

Crafty Kids, Pt. 1

Jacob got a lot of craft stuff for his 5th birthday. He and Ellie have been busy painting, molding, cutting, and gluing. Here are some pictures of their latest works of art:

Jacob and his dog...he painted it to look like Achilles, Uncle David's dog

Ellie and her red and purple striped cat.

Jacob and his green car

Ellie and her orange and red car

(All crafts provided by a very thoughtful Aunt Katie.)