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Thursday, April 11, 2013

This Weeks Great Finds

As many of our readers already know about our great finds, but if your just joining us, we find a lot of great deals here at our local dollar stores. This week we found 4 great books for a dollar each at Dollar Tree.

Animal World
Science
Planet Earth
World History

These have many great resources in them to cover the basics and then some. These 4 books would be great for notebooking or lapbooking. We are going to use both methods, lapbooking for my younger children and notebooking for my older children.

Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking here. When I first looked at it, I thought it would be great to with a Geography study, but after getting it home, not so good of an idea. So, I think this would be a good reference for future road trips. The bottom line is that it was only a dollar.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Flower Pots

I have recently been writing about my deals that I find as I'm shopping. This particular deal was found at Wal-Mart about a week or two ago. I knew I wanted to do something with this Dry-Clay, but unsure at the time. Well after doing the gardening yesterday, I thought about planting ordinary flowers.

My children had a little fun with the clay before creating their flower pots. This clay caused their hands to get the die on them. So, I pulled out our plastic gloves to keep them from getting to much die on their hands.

However, my youngest son had another agenda. He decided it was more fun to make tracks with his toy car. He's in his own little world at times and brings a smile to my face. I mean seriously, that does look more fun than making flower pots for a boy.

They turned out pretty well, but I think we really needed a scraper to help with the sides to make them flat. Still, even with that being said, I'm happy with them because my children made them.

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Designing Clothes by Kids

A few weeks ago my son asked my to make him a tie. Of course I did, but I wondered how long he would wear it. Well, he's been wearing it just about everyday. I like this new phase he's in because what Mom doesn't like their kids all dressed up in their Sunday's best.

His newest request was a vest. I made it of course, but it was my first. I'm actually surprise that it turned out pretty well. I thought for sure it would take me a two days or more to make. It only took me about three hours to make. It would have been shorter, but I placed the buttons on wrong and had to redo them.

I took my son to Walmart pick out his material for the vest. He picked out a black and white pattern and black velvet material. Pretty good for a seven year old. I thought it was a good choice on his part.

I gave him the option of Velcro or buttons to put on the vest. He decided on buttons, but the wall of buttons were ridiculous. This way too much for him to choose the right ones and still make it for his style. So, I pulled a few for him to pick from. He went with the trains, air plains, and cars.

After making this vest he then asked me if I can make him a shirt to go with it. Seriously, I think he thinks he has a personal designer now. (LOL) This I know would be a challenge, but I'm starting to think I should have gotten him a suit instead. I don't think that's what he wanted. I think he just wanted his me to make it for him. I'm thrilled that he has thrown these challenge at me because without these request he wouldn't have learned how to tie his own tie at the age of seven. I mean really how many children that age knows how to tie their own tie.

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