Cute Father's Day Tie Bookmarks

Hello!  Father's day is rapidly approaching.  I am getting ready to make a fun little project with Miss E's class.  I was thinking about classic presents for dads from kids, and immediately thought ties.

Then I was thinking about my own dad.  My dad (well really both of my parents) instilled in me a deep appreciation for reading and books in general.  I remember my dad reading 'The Hobbit',  'Sir Toby Jingles', 'The Perils of Penelope' and so many others to my siblings and me before bed.   My daughter an her cousins love it when Grandpa reads them books.  Because of this I thought about bookmarks.


Then my little grey cells started to percolate an idea.  Following is what I came up with.

I found a cute tie clip art template and made it so 4 could fit on a page.  Then I printed it on card stock paper.  I decorated the ties, then I cut them out.  I had some old school photos of my siblings and me.  I made copies of them on my printer and then cut out just the heads.  and glued them on the bottom.  The kids in Miss E's class wrote a message to their dads on the back and then we laminated and cut them out.  They were really cute.

So here's what you need.

Tie template printed on card stock
School Pictures
basic art supplies (coloring supplies, scissors and glue)





Here's a picture montage for how I decorated the ties.  I hope these will help get your creative juices flowing.  Enjoy!

Summer Vision Board!

Summer Vacation is approaching like a whirl wind.  Miss E and I always struggle with summer.  I try to set up lot of things for her to do around the house and inevitably she isn't interested or gets bored extremely easily.  A bored Miss E isn't that pleasant to be around.  In the past I didn't involve her very much in the planning of summer activities because it felt overwhelming for both of us.  This year we are both a year older an (I like to think) wiser.  This year I am involving her in planning.  I am even going as far as to allow her to plan and execute an outing on her own.

Before we get started I wanted to help her get in the space of thinking positively about our summer.
 We made a vision board.  I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up some supplies and then we got started.

Here's what we used:

Poster Board
Letter stickers
Wall Borders
Old Magazine/Calendar Pictures
Fun paper

Markers
Yard Stick
Pencil

I started by measuring the poster board and finding the center.  From there I centered the letters to spell out "Summer Vision Board".  Then I framed the words with the wall borders.  I first cut them in half length wise then measured and cut them to length.  

Miss E and I had a little brain storming session about all the things we want to do, achieve and see this summer.  We then went about finding ways to depict our brain storm list and glued, drew and taped our pictures onto the poster board.

I think it turned out quite nice.  It will serve as a wonderful jumping off point in our planning endeavors.