Egg Carton Flowers

Here are the Egg Carton Flowers Tanner made for mother's day.  He gave his to my mom.  And Mackenzie gave hers to Dave's mom.

Kolin's mom told me that Kolin gave it to her right away on Friday, he just couldn't wait.  He was so excited!
You just cut slits or petals from an egg carton, have the kids paint them, put a pipe cleaner in for a stem and glue some beads or gems in the middle.

Finishing up the Mother's Day Crafts

In the morning we decorated the bags.  Then we went to the playground for a couple of hours.

Then after lunch we finished some more.  Carolynn was down for her nap so Ben helped make her tissue paper flowers.

Here is my sweet Tanner...

Tanner, Jayden and Ben...

Here are all the things that went in the bags...

Mother's Day Crafts Day 2

I found these cute flower pin wheel things at AC Moore and thought they would be perfect for Jayden to paint for Granny and Grandma.  They would look so pretty in their flower beds (I would have loved for Jayden to paint me one, but I already had him making me a bunch of my own mother's day gifts, I didn't want to do another one.  hint, hint, Dave... wink, wink.)

He did an awesome job!!  He wanted to do a rainbow, so I put the paint in rainbow order and he did it all himself!  He opened the paint, painted each petal and closed the paint all by himself!  I was right there doing other things and I was so impressed!  Way to go Jayden!!!

I never got a picture of the finished product but you can kind of tell from the first picture.  We also turned it around a day or 2 later and so he could paint the back.  You are so awesome Jayden!!!

Mother's Day Crafts Day 1

When the Robinsons came in the morning Tanner was sitting on the chair and Trevor climbed up with him and Tanner actually didn't cry or anything!  He let Trevor sit there, such an accomplishment for Tanner!  However, Carolynn was pretty jealous that Trevor sat with Tanner and not her.  Carolynn was already sitting on the sofa by herself and she kept saying or rather whining "Trevor, I want to sit with you..."  until Trevor finally told her to climb up with him and Tanner.

I decided that I'd try to make a bunch of crafts for mother's day with the kids.  This is what we got done today...

Here is a little collage of Carolynn...

And her is Ben Robinson...