While Daddy is Away the Girls will Play :)

So while Nick was busy at Men's Retreat this past weekend the Girls decided to make it a weekend of crafts. We started off at Barkhausen Water Fowl Preserve (which is just down the road from out house) We built a Blue Bird House together and they were SO excited. They each took turns hammering in nails and as you can see from the finished product it turned out quite well :)




The girls have been spending a lot of time outside in the past couple weeks since the weather has been so splendid and in so have been finding "treasures". They have been collecting little bitty pine cones in a bucket so we made a craft with those. Our sunny sunflower was quick and easy and they enjoyed crumpling all the paper :)

Our final project for the weekend was to make Easter bunnies. Since the girls know the true meaning of Easter I thought it wouldn't hurt to do something a little fun to go with the Holiday. After I dyed the socks with food coloring and they dried we filled them with rice and decorated them up. (the socks are lone socks just so you don't think I used perfectly good socks for this craft :) They turned out VERY cute and are now displayed on our mantle place.