Well, pretty close to this. The ones we used I got at Lowe's last year, but I don't think Lowe's still carries them. This is the same brand though. The quality is okay, especially for the price. I think the one I got was $15? They have a flat hinged top and loops to hang it. The girls then painted them however they wanted to. I only gave them primary colors and we talked about them (which we always do when I only give them those three). Lemur decided she preferred green over the other options today. Tamarin did her best to not mix. I only had two birdhouses, like I said I got them last year expecting to do them then. Howler painted a very nice, bright colorful canvas while sisters worked on their houses. Then I turned my back for a few minutes. I return to discover she pulled the black paint out on her own and there is not a bit of color left. *singing Rolling Stones in my head while I type this* Oh well, she is proud of her completely black painting.
We also made toilet paper roll bird feeders with honey and seeds then took them outside to hang.
No, I didn't use pb&j. Yes, the honey makes most of it fall off, but if you must know I don't expect the birds to come as close to the house as I knew the girls would want to hang them. This way they have the appearance of being eaten by wild birds (in reality most will fall off and be eaten by our chickens). We have done other bird feeder crafts before and the girls have been incredibly disappointed when they don't get eaten. We have a lab that loves to snatch birds out of the sky so I don't blame the birds one bit for disappointing my kids. I hope if they appear to be eaten it will get them excited about making more, then we can spread them across the property. The better ones go further from the house, the lesser ones go close to the house.
We made these. The girls enjoyed cutting them out themselves. I didn't help them. Tamarin's looked a lot like mine. Lemur decided to make a square pumpkin..... okay..... Howler cut and cut and cut. Interestingly she cut pretty good strips, but they were all the same size :) I have a goal to do a Halloween craft every day this month. Tuesday was this. Wednesday was hand print ghosts (white hand print on black paper), wish I'd had some neon markers so the pumpkins and bats the girls drew would have shown better, but oh well, noted for next year.
As for the weekly stuff:
We wrote a three sheet and a four sheet (we were behind a week).
We wrote a D sheet.
Tamarin practiced sight words.
Lemur practiced her name.
Tamarin learned my phone number.
We read poetry and fairy tales.
Tamarin did some equations from a math notebook.
Tamarin did a little bit of writing, but not a lot this week. Writing will be priority next week.
We had to go to the grocery store to fill up on junk food for the rest of the week. Trying to make things easier on daddy since I am going out of town :) I told the girls that daddy would be home and in charge the rest of the week. We've had some acting out today. I don't think they like that I'm leaving, maybe I should feel guilty..... but I don't :p
On the farm front:
Monday morning I was going through the boxes in the barn pulling out the things I want to go through before Lydia gets here. Chris - "You're nesting....... in a barn......" Big grin, very proud of himself..... those of you who know me, picture my 'not amused' face here......
We also found a 4-5 foot snake skin on the doorway of the barn one morning. Don't think any more birds are missing and we have so many eggs I'm actually okay with sharing with him right now. I found another stash while going through boxes, about 18 and one of them had busted and gone rancid. They are still in a bucket outside, not sure what I'm going to do with them. I may throw them to the pigs. I opened another one to see if there was anything growing and there wasn't so they are probably good just covered in egg nasty.
"I always feel like, somebody's watchin' me"
I wish I could say the girls were freaked out, but instead they all tried to open the toilet.... anyway, there's my Happy October joke.
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