Mitten Craft, Valentines & Fabric…oh my!

On the 20th of each month I want nothing more than to just stay in bed and cry…seriously.  Obviously that is not an option because if it were…the bed is where I would be 🙂  So I had a good cry in the shower this morning and just a few tears here and there through out the day.  I know this may sound really stupid, but I still cannot believe Mom is gone…my head DOES.NOT.GET.IT.

I chose to do our weekly planned craft today, just so we would have something fun to look forward to.

I have really been missing her lately, so I ventured up to her house the other day.  All of my files from teaching kindergarten are at her house.  I decided to bring a few home.

Today we decided to do a craft from my “winter” file.  The kids were stoked to make mittens.

As with most of our crafts…these are super easy.  I like to keep it easy.  Here are the supplies you will need:  Drawn mitten pattern, colored paper, white long rectangular strips, smaller white squares, ribbon, string, scissors and glue.

I love for my kids to practice cutting, so I usually trace the main pattern and then let them do the cutting.  Plus is gives them ownership over their project.  So trace the mitten pieces, cut them out and glue together.

We then picked out ribbon and glued on a piece of ribbon the bottom of each mitten.

Then we got started on the snowflakes.  The kids glued down the long rectangular pieces down first.  Cross shape and then X shape.

They then glued on the smaller white squares to the ends of the snowflakes.  At the end, I hot glued a piece of string to the back of the mitten to connect them.

And there you have it.  Super easy winter craft.  Display and enjoy!

Harper also finally finished her Valentines today.  She has been working and working on these things.  She picked out some little treats to put in the bags and today she filled out all her tags.

These are totally her.  She cut all kinds of jazzy things out of magazines and used a bazillion stickers and stamps and other cut out hearts.  I just like her.

And we used my mom’s stapler to attach the tags.  My mom’s stapler is pretty doggone awesome.

I also have been doing a little fabric shopping lately.  I am still closed for orders, but these will be added to my inventory and will be available once I re-open.

And our 14 Months Waiting Art Giveaway ends tonight at midnight.  GO HERE and enter to win this 11×14 canvas.

And don’t forget ZUMBA tomorrow morning from 8-9am at the SWG Studio STARS (Formerly A Time to Dance Studio) at 113 West Cedar Street in Goodlettsville.  This is directly beside Goodlettsville City Hall.  And it’s only $3.  Proceeds go to our adoption fund.  THANK YOU Janet!  Come get your groove and sweat on 🙂

Have a great weekend!