So this week we we have talked about how love ...
Today was love ENJOYS! And it was all about spending time together as a family and enjoying one another. I planned a love themed evening starting at about 4 p.m.
We started the night out by reciting our weekly verse (Deuteronomy 6:5) and then we made pipe cleaner crystallized hearts: Step 1: form the pipe cleaner to the desired shape.
Step 2: We then boiled three cups of water and mixed it with 1/2 cup Borax and poured it into a Mason jar and added some food coloring.
Step 3: Then we tied a string to the heart and attached it to a stick and put the heart in. It is suppose to crystallize over a period of time to make beautiful crystal hearts! Check out my Pinterest crafts board for details!
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| Makes for a beautiful display in a window as you wait for the crystals! |
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| Here's the finished produce (takes about 12 hours) |
Our theme verse for the night was 1 Corinthians 13:7 "Love BEARS all things, hopes all things, endures all thing. (NKJV)
BEARS are going to be a common theme throughout the night, as you will see. So we talked about what it meant for love to BEAR all things (love being patient, kind, and the ability to protect one another). Then we made little bear pizzas for our picnic we would have later.
We then collected blankies, pillows, flashlights, and any other lovies the kids wanted for their camp-out and we headed down to the basement where I had set up the tent for the festivities.
The tent was to represent a bear cave. I placed two bears in the cave as a surprise for Zoe and Roman. The bears were displayed in a make-shift paper bag "den".
We then met inside the tent and talked about Love some more. How the love in our family is a love that protects...kind of like a blanket. We then had each family member sit in the middle of the tent and put a blanket over their shoulders... we then showered them with things we loved about them.
Then we talked about hibernation and how bears sleep in the winter. We looked at some pictures of bears and read some books on bears (A Teddy Bear's Picnic, It's the Bear, Every Autumn Comes the Bear). (Side note: Roman was so crazy during this time, picking on his sister and pretty much doing the opposite of love that he had to go in a crib time-out... talk about a damper on the evening. This pretty much followed Roman for the evening).
We then transitioned to our picnic.
We had carrots, grapes, and bear pizzas. We also had panda bear punch, which consisted of white milk with a drizzle of chocolate syrup in it! Yum!
We then had an ice cream break and made bears out of our ice cream.
Then we headed downstairs for the start of our movie, Over the Hedge, which starts out with a bear that is hibernating.
Their snacks for the movie were popcorn in little bear brown baggies and Teddy grahams.
Well that wraps up our LOVE WEEK at the Lee's going out on a bang! I will say that what stuck with the kids the most was keeping the theme alive throughout the entire week. I saw them grasping a whole lot more of the concepts of love as we were talking about them continually.
I think next year I'll try to make a felt heart chain for each family member starting at the beginning of the week. Family members will get hearts added to their chain throughout the week as they are displaying love to each other. I think this concept would help to cement the idea in more. At the end of the week for our big camp-out bash we can all wear our [hopefully] heart filled chain necklaces!
P.S. below is my really horrible attempt to do what one mom did taking photos of her sleeping baby. This is suppose to be Samuel floating in the sky (get it? blue quilt?!:) with clouds (get it? white blankets?) and holding on to some heart shaped balloons. It is pretty bad when I have to spell it all out.
We then met inside the tent and talked about Love some more. How the love in our family is a love that protects...kind of like a blanket. We then had each family member sit in the middle of the tent and put a blanket over their shoulders... we then showered them with things we loved about them.
Then we talked about hibernation and how bears sleep in the winter. We looked at some pictures of bears and read some books on bears (A Teddy Bear's Picnic, It's the Bear, Every Autumn Comes the Bear). (Side note: Roman was so crazy during this time, picking on his sister and pretty much doing the opposite of love that he had to go in a crib time-out... talk about a damper on the evening. This pretty much followed Roman for the evening).
We then transitioned to our picnic.
We had carrots, grapes, and bear pizzas. We also had panda bear punch, which consisted of white milk with a drizzle of chocolate syrup in it! Yum!
We acted out the story "Going on a bear hunt", which was a lot of fun!
We then transitioned to craft time and did this fun little coloring craft: stand-up bear and "love bears all things" bookmark.
Then we headed downstairs for the start of our movie, Over the Hedge, which starts out with a bear that is hibernating.
Their snacks for the movie were popcorn in little bear brown baggies and Teddy grahams.
Well that wraps up our LOVE WEEK at the Lee's going out on a bang! I will say that what stuck with the kids the most was keeping the theme alive throughout the entire week. I saw them grasping a whole lot more of the concepts of love as we were talking about them continually.
I think next year I'll try to make a felt heart chain for each family member starting at the beginning of the week. Family members will get hearts added to their chain throughout the week as they are displaying love to each other. I think this concept would help to cement the idea in more. At the end of the week for our big camp-out bash we can all wear our [hopefully] heart filled chain necklaces!
P.S. below is my really horrible attempt to do what one mom did taking photos of her sleeping baby. This is suppose to be Samuel floating in the sky (get it? blue quilt?!:) with clouds (get it? white blankets?) and holding on to some heart shaped balloons. It is pretty bad when I have to spell it all out.
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