Crafting and Creating

Hello my friends...this is going to be a long post with lots of topics - so bare with me :)

Last night was the first time I could actually sit and read posts in a while....do you know how many I had??

422.

Nope, not  a typo..

422...isn't that crazy??

I was able to get it to about 220 last night...
(I'm sure it's higher now since it's taken me about 30 minutes to do this post. lol)

I have good reasons though...

I was getting my craft on....and made my friend's baby shower gift:

I took the cloth diaper inserts (that everyone uses for burp cloths) and sewed ribbon on them to make them cute...

Then I was busy planning my friend's goodbye party...
I made this cake:

(yes, little miss A got to it - not only did she pick at the bottom there, but she also ATE the P!! lol  Luckily I had some more yellow to do the P again...oh my child. NEVER a dull moment around here!)

Do you see her on the right?? She was so surprised!!  That's me on the left - I'm so bummed I couldn't get a picture of her face, I was just excited to see her reaction, that I forgot to take a picture.

And then, in the midst of all the crafting and planning, I've been distracted by this cutie pie:

I just LOVE this picture of B!

AND I've been making a new unit...

I bought Reagan's Piggie unit a while ago and I'm finally getting using it next week!!

But, you know me - I like my math and reading centers to coordinate, so I had to make a centers unit to go with it :)

Reagan's unit has a lot of stuff that I want to use for whole group, so I only really needed to create my centers, so it's a little smaller than my other units.

It's not completely finished yet though, it was finished enough for me to go to UPS to print the stuff up, but not enough for me to share/sell it...lol..

BTW - I refer to the UPS guys as my boys now...lol! I'm there almost every week printing my stuff in color, they even told me that to keep my cardstock there (I have to bring my own cardstock, but the printing is MEGA cheap, so WHATEVAS!). So they have a drawer labeled "Jen's Paper" - haha!!

This past week, we did my Goldilocks centers - they kids had so much fun with them!!

We also did the science experiment using Teddy Grahams that's in the pack...

ewww....lol

They loved it!!

Before they made their hypotheses, they got to eat one of each to be able to use that as their reasoning for their hypothesis. Love when we can add food to science...or math...or writing...or reading. lol

Then...I came up with this Teddy Graham Math activity on the spur of the moment..so it wasn't in my Goldilocks pack - but it is NOW! ha!

I stole  borrowed some teddy bear counters from our K teachers...and it was perfect because there were small, medium, and large sizes - JUST LIKE the Goldilocks bears...ha!!

I also came up with next idea on the spur of the moment...I found this book in our public library...

So cute!!  So I had my parent volunteer cut out some shapes on the die cut machine.

Afteer the kids passed their 2-D shapes "quiz" with a perfect score, they got to make a shapes picture - I LOVE how they turned out!!

And we FINALLY finishef the "Who Is Goldilocks?" writing and craftivity.

If you bought my Goldilocks unit, check back soon for the revised copy (both lit and math), I've added some stuff to it!! It's now a whopping 83 pages! Still the same price though :)

Also, don't forget to join my linky!! 

(if you do, you may just have a better chance to win something...like a new unit maybe?? (when I finally get it posted... hint hint! ha!)

Thank you to all of you who have already linked up - I'm seeing some GREAT ideas that I need to start working on over the summer...

Ok, I must go laminate and cut out my Piggie centers...

Hope y'all had a GREAT weekend!