Countdown: Day 5...Crafting Galore!

Hey yall! We are down to 4 days!!!

This gives me extreme excitement and great anxiety both...at the same time.

Excitement? Well, that's obvious. I shouldn't have to spell it out for you.

But I will :)

Excitement because of summer! Sleeping in! Laying out! Swimming! Vacations! Family time!

Anxiety? Whew, lots of it.

Being unemployed. Moving. Starting grad school. Packing up my whole entire life...

I will *officially* be unemployed in 1 week from today. Yikes.

Please pray that I will find a new school home...somewhere...and fast :)

Okay, on with the countdown! Here was our balloon for today.



Our activity? Switch classes!

Of course, I was totally prepared for this one :)

My teamies and I had already planned a day where we would each teach each other's classes for a lesson. We all chose something fun for the end-of-the-year, and planned to have each class for about 45 minutes.

My lesson/craftivity came straight from Alisha at The Bubbly Blonde. I had seen her Rockin' Guitar Craftivity and immediately fell in love. I was planning on making some sort of rock & roll themed craft, but why reinvent the wheel, right? And her's was just way amazing, and I most certainly couldn't have competed with that!

I didn't let the kids know what we were making, though, and their guesses had me cracking up...

They kept saying we were making a snowman....silly kids!

Finally, they got the picture and they turned out really cute!











One of my teamies made Teri's (a cupcake for the teacher) cute little take a bite out of summer {an end-of-year craftivity}.

These, of course, turned out super cute as well!





And my other teamie made thumbprint pictures. These were my favorite!!!

She printed out a picture of a tree on cardstock, then had every student in the class put their thumbprint as leaves. I added my thumbprint and turned it into an owl, of course :) The kiddos then colored the rest of the picture, I added the year at the bottom, and laminated them.

I really think they are incredible!











My teamie had the kids make one for me as well, so I am going to frame it and hang it in my next classroom...wherever that may be!

Okay, gotta go work on my room mom gifts!

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