A little craftyness

Hmmm I wonder if " craftyness" is actually a word? Oh well sounds good to me. Anyway...I have been busy as usual with babysitting, which seems to be what I do everyday. But I did find sometime to get in some crafts this past couple weeks. I need to change the decor in my classroom at church and I saw these cute pumpkins on Pinterest a while back and decided these would be good for Oct and Nov. I made a few with the orange construction paper that I had on hand and need to go to the store to get some more orange. They turned out cute and will look nice hanging from the ceiling in the classroom. I am sure the kids will like them. I will have to remember to stick my camera in my purse so that I can take a picture of them hanging in the classroom.
I also needed to make some things to go along with my lesson for last Sunday. The lesson was on "I can be honest" I was trying to think of something that my kids could relate to as they are only 4yrs old. Well my very good friend Deana had sent me link to some Halloween items to make and they were just what I was looking for to relate to this lesson. I already had the Perler beads on hand so that wasn't a problem to make these spider webs. I explained to the kids in class that we shouldn't "spin a web of lies" hence the spider webs. Well its a stretch but they really liked it. I put magnets on the back so the kids could put them on their refrigerator at home and they would be reminded to always be honest. I also gave them some spider rings I had on hand to go along with the webs. One of the kids was so happy to tell their parent about why they had a spider and web. It was cute to see them explain it.
I took some fun foam strips and some letter beads that I had and glued "I can be Honest" down the front of them and also added magnets on the back. They also loved these. The kids really love taking things home with them. I usually let them make something in class and they did draw their own spider web and then drew a line through it to remind them not to lie.I really enjoy working with these kids at this age. They are so much fun. I will only have these kids till the end of December. Come Jan I will have a new group. Not sure how many I will have next year. I probably should actually look in the Nursery and see. Who knows I may not have any kids for this age group and they may move me to another age group. One of the little girls told me she wanted me to stay as her teacher because she likes me and I make cool things and let them make fun stuff. I thought that was so sweet.

I have a few more projects in store for myself in the very near future. Including making my great granddaughter a trick or treat bag that matches her costume. She is going as a ladybug. Her mother found some really cute pink ladybug fabric so will get on that this week.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead and take time to do things for themselves. Everyone be safe.