Hooray! We filled up the "Bean" Jar.
The girls get "Beans" (which are actually pink marble type things) put into their jar (glass vase) anytime I think they deserve them. If they did a great job on their lessons, or they brushed their teeth without me reminding them, or they helped one of their sisters etc. they get a handful of beans. It took us a couple months to fill up the jar. Once they filled it up, they drew a card from a set of cards they had made up earlier of activities along with a service project they'd like to do. The card they chose this time was "Go to a movie" and "make blankets for charity". So we went to see "The Princess and the Frog". The girls of course loved it. Now we need to figure out making those blankets for charity. Hmmmm.....
Paper Flowers
We decided since we now had a full bean jar, we should make something to put in it before we empty it out to start over again. So we made paper flowers out of tissue paper, sucker sticks, green crepe paper, fuzzy balls and other things. First we wrapped our sucker sticks with green crepe paper for the stems. Then we cut squares out of the tissue paper, poked a hole in the middle of three or four papers, pushed a sucker stick into the hole just a little way, twisted the paper around the top of the sucker stick, taped it with tape, glued a fuzzy ball into the center and walaah we have a flower! Then we made different insects to go in each flower. Savannah had a lady bug, Molly a bumble bee, and Sophie a butterfly.
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