Handprint Christmas Trees

Ella and William decorated their handprint Christmas trees with glitter and jewels. They were gorgeous!


Ella's beautiful tree.

William's beautiful tree.

Love these!

Felt handprint reindeer

The kids worked hard on these adorable little reindeer...


The kids and I made these adorable felt handprint reindeer ornaments to hang on our tree recently. I love how they turned out! William's on the left, Ella's on the right. So cute!

Ella Flower

I love this craft!!! Not only is it beautiful, but it was made using Ella's hands, arm, palm, and feet.

I am so in love with this flower. :)

Handprint Cottonball Sheep

The kids surprisingly, loved getting their hands painted today! Looking back, I think I should have used black paint, so that our sheep wouldn't look like amoeba's, but,... they're still cute. :)

St Patrick's Day Crafts

We decided to get going on our St. Patty's day crafts today!

First the kids took a heart shaped sponge, dipped it into green paint, and stamped it making shamrocks. They came out really cute. I cut them out after they were dry and hung them up.

Then the kids let me paint their hands and arms. I was a bit shocked both of them let me do this! Voila! Cute little leprechans! Ella decorated hers with a rainbow and sun, but drew the little face herself. William just scribbled, so I drew his face. :)

I love them! I think they are simply adorable!

Handprint Santa Claus

This craft was so fun to make! Ella is all about getting her hands and feet painted now. It's great! She gets so excited for these crafts!

So first I painted her hand with white paint. She told me how cold it was. :)

Then she put down some glue drops for googly eyes. (We love the googly eyes:))

I cut out a foam Santa hat and Ella glued it on.

She used her fingertips to add pink cheeks and a little red nose.

We also pulled apart a cotton ball and Ella glued it on the rim of Santa's hat.

Then, of course, Ella drew a big happy smile on Santa. :)

I love this! I think it is so darn cute.

Thankful Wreath

Ella made this "thankful wreath" today. She loves getting her hand traced and after we were done, she proceeded to trace her own hand and insist I cut them out so she could make another wreath. That wreath, I just now notice, is stuck to the front door....she put it there herself. Aww... she's so darn sweet...

We have so much to be thankful for.

Coffee Filter Handprint Turkey

Ella was all about making "decorations" today, so we made this cute turkey.

First she colored two coffee filters with markers.

Then I traced (bigger though) both her hands and cut them out. Then she sprayed them with water to have the colors blend.

I also traced Ella's little foot on brown paper to be the turkey.

Then she glued the feathers onto the back, added wiggly eyes, a beak, a giblet and feet and we have a cute little turkey.

So cute!

Handprint Spider

The kids made these cute handprint spiders today. William's hand was so tiny I ended up painting all his fingers. So his spider is special and has 10 legs. :) Ella's has the correct amount. I'm so excited that Ella seemed to like getting her hand painted. It doesn't feel like that long ago that she was very anti-paint on her hands!

What fun! I love Fall/Halloween crafts!

Finger painted Fall Trees

Ella finally agreed to do an art project today! I was so excited! She wanted to make a colorful tree, so she made this cute fingerpainted fall tree. She had so much fun!

First she let me trace her arm and hand, and it served as her tree! (William wouldn't let me trace him.)

William made an attempt at his first art project, but he wasn't too sure about the paint...

Ella was really into it!! Her tree turned out beautiful!

I gave William a sponge to make the leaves, but he still wasn't feeling it. Oh well! Maybe next time he'll be more into it! Ella on the other hand had tons of fun and loved making the leaves fall from the tree. So pretty!

Our Door Decoration

I love this wreath! It took a lot of little Ella hands to cover the circle part, but it was worth the cutting. I think it looks beautiful on our front door!


We were on a roll with the handprints today. I just don't think Ella wanted to sit still long enough to do a long art project. :)

Hand & Foot Print Reindeer

Ella has had absolutely no interest in doing any art projects lately for some reason. But today I finally convinced her to do a couple. :)

She let me trace her hands and feet and she glued down the hands, the googly eyes and the puffy red nose.

Easy enough! Ella's little Rudolph!

He looks adorable on our refrigerator.

Watercolor Turkeys

We brought back out the watercolor paints today. I traced Ella's hand and she painted feathers on her turkey.

I'm trying really, really hard to get her to use other colors other than black! Black, she says, is her favorite color right now.

And she's working on staying in the lines. I think she's doing pretty well!

Oh the Toilet Roll...

Ella had such fun making the toilet roll turkey yesterday that we decided to make another today.

First I traced her tiny little hands...

Then she used teh bow to sponge paint her hands red, orange and green.

I cut them out later and she helped me glue on the hands, googly eyes (she loves googly eyes!), the beak and the giblet. If we keep going we're soon going to have a whole family of toilet roll turkeys!

While we had the paint out, we also made a handprint turkey. Ella's still not too keen on getting paint on herself, so I couldn't talk her into letting me paint the other hand. She did like gluing on the googly eye, beak, giblet and legs though.

Maybe next year she'll have fun adding more to this picture.

Alphabet Work

Ella knows her alphabet. She knows all her upper case letters and most of her lower case and the sounds they make. But we still do alphabet reinforcement activities and what's cute is that she doesn't even know she's doing "work." She thinks it's just fun!

Here she practiced matching alphabet letter stickers to the correct letter.

And she's been really into the letter H lately, so we made a letter H and decorated it with her hands. She said it tickled when I traced her little hand. :)

I had her color the letter H, but she likes to draw what she calls "mouse" - that's what's in the bottom right hand corner. She loves drawing mice, I'm not sure why! :)

Sadly, I have no pictures of my children today. It was a very busy day and I never had a chance to pick up my camera. We've been going to different parks this week - so I need to remember to bring my camera. I apparently, have quite the little social butterfly. Ella is definitely a people person. She really loves being around people, especially kids her age. Most kids her age seem to be in their own world, but Ella is very aware of them and really wants to play with them. She goes up to them, waves, smiles and says hi! It is so adorable. She makes lots of friends wherever she goes!

In other news, Ella repeats EVERYTHING. She uses two word sentences and her language continues to explode. Yesterday she told me my phone was ringing, and says bless you when someone sneezes. She's also very polite and usually says thank you. :) I can't believe all that she is saying. She is just so much fun and she continues to amaze me.

Busy Bees

2 kids are definitely a LOT more work than one! I feel like we just got the hang of one baby and now we've thrown another one in the mix! William's a pretty laid back baby, but the middle of the night feedings are starting to drain me. Ella's so active during the day, it's hard to give her as much attention as I really want to. Hopefully soon things will get more into a routine and settle down for us.

Sweet baby boy napping.

Ella just adores her little brother. She always gets right down on the floor with him during tummy time and even brings toys over to him to help me encourage him to lift his head. She's just too sweet!

Walking around the house wearing daddy's sandals. She didn't even need a hand to hold walking around in them!

Ella really enjoys the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, so after reading it today we decided to try making our own handprint butterfly. Ella was a little leary still, about getting her hands all covered in paint, but she laughed when I helped rub her hand all around. I think her butterfly turned out pretty cute. :)

I wonder what tomorrow will bring. :)

Easter Art Project

I almost forgot to share these. Ella made these adorable Easter cards for her grandparents.

How cute are they??? :)