Crafty Friday

After we finished our school work, it was time for "Crafty Friday." Today, I planned for the kids to make an ice skating scene. We painted a ice pond blue and sprinkled salt on it to make it shimmer like ice. Then we added cotton balls for the snow and even made some snowmen. We colored the ice skating kids and even added trees to the scene. I love school days that end like this with something fun to do. The kids had fun and even added little animals to the scene.


Andrew didn't want to participate being a big 4th grader and all so he worked on his Alabama project. He's been assigned a Geography/History project on Alabama due next week. He is to learn all that he can about Alabama and proceed by making a poster size map of it. He's also to fill the poster with info he learned from the internet and library books. He loves that kind of stuff. He loves to make maps. He would have been a good traveling companion for Lewis and Clark.

Andrew's Alabama map (part 1)

Ethan's "melting" snowman

Hannah's winter scene

Caleb's "Littlest Pet Shop" toy winter scene