Vacation Bible School 2014

Last week we spent the morning at our church VBS. It was greatness! This years theme was Wild Animals. Here are a few pics.  These were taken on the last day of VBS.

Our kids raised $28,000 at just this campus. With all our campuses together we raised $32,000!!! That money will go to help feed children in Haiti and help our local food pantry! 

This was one of the mornings I walked in to take pictures! LOOK HOW MANY KIDS WE HAD!!! Just for K-4th we had 1800. 

We also helped out at one of our other campus church in the evening. Thankfully it is not as large and this was their 1st year to have a VBS and we had about 50 kids every day! It was great for their 1st year! So glad we got to be apart of both VBS this year! Monster had a blast at both! 

Wordless Wednesday

Monster loves to paint

We have been studying Dinosaurs and I had bought these back at the beginning of the school year. Monster brought them out this week and painted them! 

I got them at Target and they are the Melissa and Doug brand. He spent about thirty minutes painting these. 

Moments like this...

That make me wish he would stay little....

Medieval Times Feast

Monster is in a Medieval Times class at his co-op that we attend on Fridays. This week will be our last class until the new school year starts! Last week they had their feast. It was so great. Families were welcome to join in on the fun. The kids acted as servers, actors, jesters, and we even had a lady of he house. I am so glad we ended up putting Monster in this class. He has really enjoyed it and the teacher has been amazing!

They made gingerbread men as a treat. 

Tasting a drink that was from that time period (without the alcohol of course! )

Eating a cubed cheese! This was a big deal. He has NEVER eaten a cubed cheese! He won't eat any other type of cheese other than sandwich cheese because he swears it's different! I know it may look like he doesn't care for it but he ate TWO big cubes of it! 

Monster was an actor and a server! He did a great job! 

Monster performing a Medieval Times dance they learned! 

Acting out the story of David and Goliath! Him and another boy were the two scared soldiers who gave their armor to  David. 

The actors taking a bow. They did such a great job acting out this little story! 

* Earth stickers are placed to protect the children who do not belong to me :) 

Volcano FAIL...

Monster and I have been researching Volcanos! We finally decided to make our own and experiment with it. I put together a flour and salt recipe and thought it would work. Man was I wrong! I used a whole bag of flour too! Monster is not one for stuff on his hands so this was a great sensory activity as well.  

He covered the water bottle that was going to be used as the throat of the volcano. 

Here is our finished product. I left it out to dry and then we were going to paint it the next day. Yeah that didn't happen. When I went to check on it the whole thing has slipped down the bottle into a big pile of mess. So I threw it away and bought a kit from Mardel! Looks like we will be redoing this fail! Oh well, You live and you learn! 

MAGIC SCHOOL BUS!!!

We are HUGE fans of the Magic School Bus! So much so that I just order Monster his Science kit using this great deal! HALF OFF REGULAR PRICE!!! FOR THE 12 MONTHS! So instead of $240 we got the price of $120! How great is that! LOVING IT!!!

Check it out because there is only 5 days left and then it goes back to FULL PRICE!

The Young Scientist Club