Valentine's Day Party

I love celebrating Valentine's day with kids. I have been wanting to do something with the middle girls at Hope House. The little kids and the older kids seem to get the most opportunity to do fun things and I hadn't really done anything with the girls 8-14 yr olds. So I was excited to have a fun reason to throw them a party. We had pizza for dinner and lots of games. They made a craft and we exchanged Valentines encouragements notes with each other. Last we watched the movie Tangled. They all had a wonderful time. It was great to see them enjoying themselves and all while in my home. There is something about have people in your house having a good time. I printed out "heart message candy" stickers for part of the decoration.
Their craft to make and lolly pops plus the little favors I made for each girl that had little candies and stickers inside.

This is what the heart basket looked like when finished
I made these little bees they had nail polish inside as prizes for the winners of the games
Making the craft


Aliyah's first Valentines Party
Pin the lips on the man






this game they had to pick the candies out of the bowl one at a time with chop sticks. The one with the most candy won




Love story relay writing. They each had to write a part to a love story and then pass their paper to the next group. They wrote a portion of each story. It was really funny what the stories ended up being.



reading their finished stories




Handing out their valentines to each other

don't laugh game. They had to hold up these funny faces and anyone who smiled of laughed was out. the last person won.

Great group of girls.

Hope House Carnival fund raiser

PFA put on a carnival fund raiser at the school. Fliers were sent out and handed out to anyone and everyone we know. Tyson had fun walking around the area with the kids handing out the fliers to all our neighbors. The event was a huge success and all the kids had a great time. Sawyer's favorite part was the moon bounce slide.

Scraps to pants and shoes

After I made the pants for the kids and we made the pants for the outreaches we had a lot of scrap material. I cut it up and made little shoes and pants to sell at the yard sale. It was 3 days of non stop sewing and mu neck was hurting so bad afterwards that I couldn't look up. But I really enjoyed making them. I always love the feeling of getting a deal. Making something out of scraps that would otherwise be thrown away makes me super happy. :-)

Ballet History Class

The month of January I taught a History of Ballet class to the homeschool kids. It's amazing to me how they had never even heard of ballet until I taught them. I taught them the positions and stretches and some of the main steps. I showed them movies of dancing and they were amazed. I showed them some of the most famous ballets including Nuttcracker. The last class we made little stages and puppets from the Nutcracker. They all had a great time. I really enjoyed teaching them about something I love so much.

Cousins

Sawyer loves his cousin Aliyah. He thinks she is the cutest thing (which she is). He loves her tiny toes and always giggles when he sees her little feet. It's the sweetest thing watching him with her. He calls her Yeeya.