Presidents Day

For Presidents Day, Katie prepared some crafts to do with the girls to try and teach them about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The photo at the bottom shows the craft projects they finished.

Savannah and Leila have been working hard learning their letters lately, so Katie let them take turns writing out "Happy Presidents Day" on the red, white, and blue stars. Then they each made a log cabin using construction paper. The one with the roof in the correct spot is Leila's. Katie helped her with it. Savannah wanted to do it by herself, and she saw fit to place the peaked roof at the bottom of the structure. The black rectangles are front doors, the blue rectangles are windows, and the cotton is smoke coming out of the chimneys.

At the top of this post, you will have seen two copies of a coloring page that Katie printed off the internet. It depicts Mason Locke Weems' famous fable about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. The girls dabbed their fingertips in red paint and painted cherries in the trees. Then Katie told them they could paint a few cherries on the ground underneath the tree and they went crazy with it. Savannah was quite amused with herself because she put a cherry on the tip of young George's nose.

A much more involved project remains incomplete at this date. The kids were painting tongue depressors red, white, and blue and had them scattered all over the kitchen table drying when I got home from school. At that point, we needed to have dinner and put the kids to bed. Eventually, Katie hopes to pattern the tongue depressors in such a way as to replicate a U.S. flag.

P.S. I sure wish I could figure out how to put photos where I want them and in the order I want them on blogger. This chaos is obnoxious.