Pumpkin Decorating

 The other day Rosie came home from the store with one of those little decorated pumpkins. She fell in love with its little pink and green eyes and its sparkly witchy hat. She decided she wanted to make one out of the white pumpkin we got at the farm stand.

It was pretty easy, really. First she colored a face on the pumpkin. It's always more fun to do crafts outside if you can.

 

While Rosie was coloring she had me cut a witch's hat out of a paper plate. I cut out a circle, then made a cut towards the center and folded and stapled it to make a cone. After that we colored it pink.

After that it was time to glue on the hat. I had to trim the stem a little to make it fit. Using Elmer's glue, we glued on the hat, with a tuft of pom pom tassels stuck underneath for the hair.

Trying on the hat

And there we had it- another witchy pumpkin!

Are you going to decorate pumpkins this fall too?

Happy Learning!

~Beth

The Chickens are Laying!

 After a long wait, which felt like it might be forever, our chickens started laying!

First was Lemon, pictured with Rowan- she laid a tiny little egg! The eggs have been getting bigger every day! Now we have 3 chickens laying eggs- just waiting on the one more. It's been fun to have fresh omelettes for breakfast!

All the kids have helped out with the chickens, Rowan especially. He also built their coop, with a little of Papa's help, of course!

Here's Rosie in the coop playing with the chickens. They are really friendly and love the attention!

Lemon's white egg. Lemon is a California White. We also have 2 Barred Rocks (Pepper and Licorice) and one Rhode Island Red (Ginger)

And here's the kids being silly- Rowan with Lemon and a real egg, Rosie with a giant surprise egg, and Fynn with a Rubik's cube :)

Happy Learning!

~Beth