Horse madness

For H week (last week) we read a million books about horses. We also made a list of things they learned about horses. Hannah began a paint-by-number horse picture, but it will be a while before it is finished. She doesn't quite have the patience for such a long and detailed project yet. We'll just bring it out again later. The girls also made "hairy horses" with a coloring sheet of a horse and some yarn.

We also read about habitats and homes. So the girls made fairy habitats/houses. We made the fairies during F week. And, of course they needed a home! I found this idea here. They REALLY enjoyed this craft. I think they spent close to two hours on it. It made a mess! I cut the houses the night before out of milk cartons and set out a buck of craft supplies. They had no rules or anything, just to make a house with this basket of stuff for your fairies. Hannah wanted curtains and asked me how she could use a q-tip and a fabric scrap to make it stay. So I helped her to machine sew a slot for the q-tip to go through and used pipe cleaners to get it to stay. Glue wasn't going to cut it. They even made furniture.

Here's Hannah's...

Here's Genna's...

Isaac got to make a house for his trains and cars out of a shoe box. He used the stickers and went to town.

Sandbox Rules

Saturday we went to the Virginia Cup. It was a little early for our H week, but who's counting. It was so much fun! I enjoyed seeing the horses and picking which one I thought would win. My technique was to pick the one with the name I liked best. Really technical stuff here. Good thing I am not betting money, right? Sandbox Rules was the only one out of the seven races that I got right. Some of my other favorite names were G'day G'day (sounds cooler when the announcer is saying it super fast), Tiefordancen, and He's a Conniver. I thought it would be fun to make up horse names for the kids. I thought of this as we were walking to the car and Hannah was all frowns because she wanted to stay and play with her friend. So Hannah's was Turnthatfrownupsidedown. Genna could be Antsinherpants since she is so wiggly and bouncy. Isaac was exhausted from being out all day without his nap and was very clingy to me. So I thought Stucktomyhip sounded good for him. Speaking of...

Here are the rest of the pictures. I think we may do this again someday.