Homemade Flower Pot

It is Earth Week and we are learning lots of new things this week about how to take care of our planet. Today we made these earthy flower pots using milk jugs. We glued green and blue felt on them to show our land and water. I cut small holes in the bottom and lined it with rock. Then we filled it up with potting soil and planted our flowers. I let the boys pick out what flowers they wanted from the store today and they came home with purple Pansies (Brodie, he thought they looked kinda blue) and yellow Pansies for Drew (Everything for this boy is yellow, see the new yellow sandles?)

Tony joined us when he got home and made one too. I am not sure how long the felt will last, I am keeping them under the awning outside. For now they look pretty good!Linked to Showcase Friday at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.

Weekend

Another weekend has come and gone. We had alot going on this past weekend. We helped out my grandparents both Friday night and Saturday. They are moving and we got some stuff off their hands and also Will helped them move some items.

Sunday we spent the entire day working on the chicken house. It is almost finished! I love it. Here are some updated pictures.

Brodie climbing on the nesting poles.My pretty nesting boxes. Hanging the door!Almost done...I think Grandpa Joel is heading down today after Will gets home from work to help finish it up. Then all we will have to do is the run and I have to paint. The chickens should be ready to move out sometime this week or next.

I am excited that its Earth Week. I am feeling alot better and finally have planned out a fun week with the kids. I haven't been feeling like doing much lately so our learning time has been pretty slim. I think I am finally getting over that hump in my pregnancy and I actually have some cool crafts and activities to do to celebrate our Earth this week!

Earth Day Treat

This will be our snack this afternoon or maybe for dessert tonight if we can wait that long! Rice Krispie Earths!

Earth Day

Earth Day is April 22. I have been thinking alot about this day because I think it is important for my kids to be aware of our earth and take steps to help take care of it. I was thinking that we could do something special as a family on this day. And since it is going to be family night (Wednesday) it will work out perfect! My thought right now is to go to the park next door to us and pick up trash as one activity we can do together.

I also found some great websites of things to do with your children. From crafts, to songs, to coloring pages there is lots of things to do. Here are a couple of sites you can check out if your looking for things to do.

DLTK's Earth Day Activites
Enchanted Learning
Making Friends (craft ideas)
Kaboose
About.com

What about you? Do you have any plans for Earth Day? I would love to hear about them.