Scarecrows

I got the idea for these scarecrow cookies from Family Fun. I changed a few of the ingredients based on what I had in the house. I put white frosting on the back of sugar cookies. The eyes are m&m's, the nose is a candy corn, and the mouth is chocolate jimmies (or maybe you call them sprinkles in your part of the world). The hair is Cinnamon Life cereal and the hat is half of a sugar wafer with a whole sugar wafer on top of it with a dot of frosting. I made the little pumpkin decoration with icing to show that our scarecrows guard the pumpkin patch. Aren't they cute?

C and R enjoyed these cookies after we read a few of our favorite scarecrow books:

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown,

The Scarecrow's Hat by Ken Brown, and

Scarecrow Pete by Mark Kimball Moulton.
We really enjoyed these books. Look for them at your local library.

Birthday Treats

Last week we celebrated Kelly's first birthday with some homemade doggy treats. This recipe from The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions is so easy.

Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup corn meal (Thanks Papa and Grandma for the corn meal!)
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1 egg
1 cup water

Directions: Mix together all ingredients except 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. You can use cookie cutters to make different shapes, but we just made sticks. Roll your shapes in the remaining parmesan cheese and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

Offer one to your doggy!

If you get this response, you know the treats were thoroughly appreciated!

Kelly wants to thank all of you for the birthday wishes you left for her in the comments section last week. You helped to make her birthday extra special.

A Drawing by C

I love this drawing by C. He told me he was drawing things from the Bible. In case you didn't know, that is God looking down on all that he created.

Turkeys in the Mail!

My children love getting mail, especially when the mail is a surprise package that includes everything necessary to make some fun and easy turkeys! Thank you Susana, you hit a home run with this one!

Here is R's turkey:

This one was made by C:

If you want to make your own turkey, visit Susana for complete directions.

Thanksgiving by C

C wanted to help retell the story of the first Thanksgiving, but instead of drawing and painting faces like R did, he decided to print out pictures of Native Americans and Pilgrims and color them. We found the images at Enchanted Learning.

After this, he was inspired to do some drawing:

A Native American

The MayflowerA Turkey

We are just about ready to retell the story of the first Thanksgiving; we are just waiting on the harvest.

Pilgrims

We now have a Pilgrim man and Pilgrim woman to join the Native Americans made by R. Aren't they cute? I just drew the outlines, she colored them, and we cut them and glued them on craft sticks.

Guess Who is One Today

Today is Kelly's first birthday and I could not resist posting some adorable photos.

Happy Birthday Kelly!