The Combs Krewe

Keeleigh has outgrown doing all but the most sophisticated crafts with me but thank goodness Jathan is as into them (usually) as I am. We spent all of Saint Patrick's Day having fun with crayons, glue, and construction paper--yea! This rainbow and shamrock mobile was our first craft. You can find a template and instructions by clicking here. Ryland saw that I had my camera and grunted at me until I pointed it at him. This is what I got when I did: The second activity we did was making rainbow ice cubes. We used food coloring to experiment making different colors and shades of colors. When we were satisfied, we covered the tray with plastic wrap then inserted popsicle sticks into each cube and waited for them to freeze. While we were waiting for the water to freeze, we made a color chart with the colors of the rainbow on it. Finally the ice cubes were ready! *My* idea was to use them to paint a rainbow but Jathan got super creative and decided to paint a leprechaun instead! "He...

Saint Patrick's Day is coming up! Keeleigh recently went to the Saint Patrick's Day parade with some friends but unfortunately it was taking way too long to ever actually get to where they were and they decided to leave. So we missed out on the cabbages and other veggies they toss! Here's hoping we're all able to go next year. We have put up a little green around the apartment starting at the front door... Keeleigh caught this little leprechaun at the Mardi Gras parade and he's hanging out of our shelf now. Jathan named him Mr. Moon Pie. I filled our tabletop urn with gold and green ornaments and some of our green Mardi Gras beads. I love it--it's like my own little pot of gold. Hopefully since it's Spring Break and I'm determined to stay home as much as possible (ha!), the kids and I will get to do some St. Patrick's Day crafts before Thursday. One idea that I saw online was to fill ice cube trays with water then let your kids add drops of food col...