Look what the wind blew in...

So. Cal has been incredibly windy lately. Leaves from tree across the community have flown into our back yard and Charlotte found a favorite one today. We decided to paint the back of it and turn it into a stencil. We then laid the painted leaf on a paper and made sure all the veins made contact with the paper. Once pulled, this is what we got. Fun little project with the kids.

Christmas Earnings

 Every Christmas the kids want to buy each other gifts and they always think that the sky's the limit! Last year I started having them earn money with extra chores at the beginning of December. Whatever they earned they could spend on their siblings. The month went so great! Because they were always earning for each other, their thoughts were always on service and their attitudes became so much better. Here is what I did this year as a quick project to collect their money. They ran to grab a random kids cup to collect coins and I thought to myself "no way."

  I quickly grabbed the red disposable cups, adhered card stock to the top with glue dots and let them decorate. I cut out a slot for them to drop their money in with an exacto knife. I knew that if I didn't close it up coins would go "missing." Voila! I realize that with a little more time my project could have been a lot prettier but the kids had a good time and I don't have ugly Shamu cups as an alternative.