More crafts and learning...

We have been busy!! I promise not to post every craft we ever do :) BUT I'm really trying hard to focus more on learning and fun with the girls at home (Um, can anyone tell I miss teaching!) and by blogging these things it keeps me focused! Besides how fun is it going to be to look back at these sweet girls and their creations years later.

Here's a bat craft we made last week which was a lot of fun. I got to trace their precious little hands and then we made a face and glued some other things on. Here's my sweet girls.



This week we had some of our good friends over to make pumpkin pie play dough. BUT When I went to the store for pumpkin spice they were all out. So strange that they were sold out in early October. Anyway, we decided to make "Fall play dough instead" with nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla. We colored the play dough orange. The kids were all were really good about waiting their turn to pour something in the pan or stir. We cooked in and then waited for it to cool while we ate lunch. The kids were excited to play with it and I got some Halloween cookie cutters to use as well. The play dough smelled SO good! We love hanging out with the Bowles clan! They love doing crafts as much as we do!!
Here's a few pictures of our play dough.






here are a few more...
pumpkin prints. (The girls thought cutting the tiny pumpkin and then digging the seeds out was so neat! We smelled it, talked about the pulp and then got messy!)





Then we painted pumpkins and made a little P is for pumpkin craft. Reese practiced making her P's on this one.