End of the Year

Nothing like a rainy day to update the blog.  Day 2 of summer and if it continues like this- I'll be wishing for August!  Yicky weather and out of routine 4 year olds...FUN!
For End of the Year gifts for Nat's teachers, my Room Mom and Adopt a Class family I made bricks.  Here's one:

I've done a few before {here} but I love the simple initial and the colors were perfect!  The paver was 37 cents and the paint all together MIGHT have been $5 for all 5 bricks I did.  I realized the day I NEEDED to do them that I had 1 paintbrush from a crayola set (not ideal but I made it work).  I used a pencil eraser and half of a plastic easter egg and went to work!  Each one was different- which is what I love about them.  Everyone seemed to like them.  I sprayed them with a glossy weatherproof coat so they could go in a garden, on a patio or front stoop.  I guess I should make one for me...

Last Friday was Nat's last day as a Garnet Cougar (she'll be a Golden Cougar in the fall).  I did this last minute and realized after snapping the picture that Daddy wasn't involved and would have definitely told me to turn a light on...She's holding the picture we took on the first day of school.  She has grown so much!

 
Now off to work on my new word wall cards for next year!  Woohoo!

XOXO
Maggie & co.

Better Late Than Never...

So I've been on Summer Vacation for 4 days and I thought I would post some end of the year crafts.  I did another brick for my Adopt a Class family but I also made another for a wonderful woman who we met on our May Day Walk.  There has been this tradition at our school that the Kindergarten students hand out tissue paper flowers to the people in our town.  Super fun and the kids LOVE it!  We gave a flower to this woman who was so touched and impressed by my kids that she wanted to get us something for our End of the Year party.  So we had pizza on her!  To say thank you I made her a brick as well.
Here is the Adopt a Class Brick:

N is the son I taught and E is the daughter I had this year.  M is me.  

Here is our May Day Brick:

I also usually write a poem about the year and the special moments and then add the kid's hand prints.  BUT this year I procrastinated and realized this on day 178 out of 180 so I changed the hand print part of it.  I am a huge fan of Ed Emberely's work so I had each child made a thumb print art and created a summer scene.  So this is how it turned out:

So off to finish my break and enjoy my Natalie time.