Adventures of Evie

  We made it to our last day of work before Thanksgiving break! This is a really short week for us but I'm excited for some time off and to be able to see family. Today we made this cute little handprint turkey. These aren't super interactive for Evie but they're a nice keepsake for me to have and compare how she's growing over the years. After that we worked on this thankful pumpkin. We wrote down all the things she was thankful for (most of them included hugs and kisses!) and then connected the strips into a pumpkin. This was a really fun one for me because it's always interesting to see what she will say when you ask her what she's thankful for. Amazingly there are no physical things on her list. Almost every strip is a person, or a warm hug or kiss. We'll see how those change over the years too! Tomorrow we'll be with family all day and Friday will hopefully be a snuggle day but we hope everyone enjoys the holiday and finds time to relax and enjoy th...

  Today we repeated a project we did last year at the library! We made these fun paper plate pumpkin pies. It's a super easy project because all you need is a plate, some construction paper, glue and cotton balls. Evie had a lot of fun gluing it together and pretending to eat it. With the other half of the plate I made her a turkey and let her color in the feathers. She decided to draw in her own feathers rather than color the entire background and of course he's blue, purple and pink again! I love how creative she is with things like this. She's always thinking outside the box and it's fun to watch. :)

  It's Thanksgiving week! So this week we are naturally going to be doing a lot of turkey themed projects.  I worked shorter shifts this week so we went back to our regular routine of movement time in the morning and then an art project each day. Today we made these cute coffee filter turkeys. Evie of course made him her favorite colors so he looks a bit more like a peacock! 😂 Then we did a letter turkey with the letters in her name. She had to put them in order and glue them onto the turkey. At the start of our at home time I got three fat glue sticks and this turkey ate the last of them! So apparently, we're going through about one per month. That's a lot of glue! Tomorrow we have some more fun projects planned so stay tuned. ;)