4th of July Celebrations

Happy 4th of July!!!

We have been doing craft activities all week. Not that we have done that many. It has just taken us this long to complete them. I really want the kids to start learning some of our basic patriotic songs such as My Country Tis' of Thee, America the Beautiful, This Land is My Land, and of course the National Anthem. I was so excited I found a cd in the dollar section at Target and it has 12 patriotic songs on it. But when I got it home it is just instrumental and no words. Oh well it is still nice to listen too and you can't beat $1.00. I don't know if they still teach these songs in school but I can still remember sitting in music class as a young kid learning these songs. I think it is important and helps keep pride in our country.

Monday we painted and made a wreath and it turned out pretty cute. You can find the directions for it here.

The rest of the week they colored pages, Anastasia worked on a 4th of July Lapbook that we still need to put together. I will post pictures later this week. We got this one free from this Lapbook site. We also made patriotic sugar cookies.

Eating the raw cookie dough of course was the best part

Are we frosting ourselves or the cookies??? Let's just say their poop was very colorful the next day!!!!

Anastasia created these ones. She made an original flag of the 13 colonies and a current one of today. We also decorated the USA and the Liberty Bell.

Anastasia wanted a red,white and blue breakfast so she made us all blue pancakes with strawberries and we drank milk. (They actually tasted better than they look.)

How do you celebrate when it is 114' outside and you don't have a swimming pool? With an indoor grill of course. We had hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, chips and red white and blue popsicles.

It turned out to be a beautiful evening. It cooled off and a nice breeze came up. We went to Schnepf's Farm to watch the fireworks. We got there about 7:30 and the kids ran around for about an hour and half till the fire works. Everyone had one of those glow necklaces so that kept the kids busy for awhile. They ooohed and ahhhed over the fireworks.

My first 4th of July.

She slept right through all the excitement.