Happy Flag Day

Since today is Flag Day, I thought I would share some fun uses with our flag that I have seen.

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Great centerpiece

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Are you doing anything to celebrate Flag Day?  Us?  Well, we are starting a mommy and kid tennis class and then we may do a flag craft today.  

Ice Cream Social

Happy Monday, and a summer one at that!  It is finally feeling like summer around here.  We got back from vacation yesterday (Sunriver, Oregon) and the first thing we did was jump in our pool.  It has been a long time waiting. 

This morning I was getting caught up on all of my Pinterest and Google Reader surfing and I came across this party.  I love it!  The colors and details are great.

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What a great party.  We are having a BBQ in a couple of weeks and I may have to use some of these ideas for the desert table.

More Carnival Fun

It's so funny the reaction I get from my friends when I tell them how excited I am for the fair/carnival.  Most are dreading it or won't even bring their kids.  Well, our carnival was over Memorial Day weekend and it pretty much was a muddy mess.  We have had a lot of rain lately and it put a damper on our time at the carnival.  We did bring our son and he enjoyed the animals and the kiddie rides (merry-go-round and a car ride).  I remember as a kid that the carnival seemed so larger, but walking around it one time it really is not.  But I did enjoy it.  Today, I thought I would share some carnival decorating ideas.

Here are some more great decor ideas I found on Kara's Party Place.

You can view Kara's party here.

Ahhh...Summer?

Hi y'all, I know I have kind of slacked on posting.  The last week of school is always crazy, but it is done and it is officially summer at my house (at least on the inside).  In Northern California, we are normally in the 90-100 degree temperature range.  Well, this month (yes month), we have had maybe 5 sunny days.  It has been rainy and thunderstorms for way too long.  We even had 4 tornadoes touch down 10 miles from my house a couple of weeks ago.  Tornadoes?  Here, pretty much unheard of.  Well, I just had to get out my weather vent. They say today was the last of it, and temperature should be warming up to the 80's.  I personally would like it a little warmer to heat up the pool, but I will take whatever sunshine I can get. 

Now that summer is here I have more time on my hands and some fun things planned party wise.  I also am enjoying quality time with my son. 

Until next time, here is a picture to help keep my motivated with this very unmotivating weather we are having.

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Free Froggy Thank You Printable

I have mentioned that I am a teacher and I am very fortunate to have some great parent helpers.   Every year I make them a little thank you gift and this year I decided to make a little frog thank you printable tag to go on each bag.  We are the first grade froggies in my first grade class, so most things have a frog on them, even the gift tags. I am also a big fan of kraft (paper, bags, etc.), so I put each item in a kraft bag and just added my little frog tag.

I love the chevron print right now, so I decided to incorporate it into the tag.  What's inside the bag?  Well, I can't tell you just in case a mommy volunteer is reading this post.  BUT, I am giving away the printable if you would like to use a frog thank you for any reason.

Feel free to download it here for personal use.  I punched them out with a 2-inch circle punch.  If you are sharing it on your blog, please link directly to this post, not the link.  Thanks a bunch and enjoy!!

Carnival Game Ideas

I thought I would stick with the carnival theme.  I am so excited to go to our Silver Dollar Fair and Carnival this week.  Some of the things I am looking forward to:

1.  Eating a corn dog and some funnel cake (calories don't count)

2.  Riding the merry-go-round with my son (he rode one for the first time last year at Disneyland and still talks about it).

3.  Walking through and observing the farm animals.

4.  Walking through the carnival game area.  I am hoping to get some more inspiration.


Here are some great homemade carnival games I found on Martha Stewarts web site.  You can find her carnival party planning ideas here.

Fish out of water game

Spray Away Game

Clothespin Drop

Ball Toss

Wish me luck with finding some wonderful inspiration at the real carnival later this week.

Clown making

I love circus and carnival themed parties.  We are going to have a carnival party this summer here at our house and our annual city carnival is coming to town this week, so I thought I would share some fun ideas I have found.  I am always looking for fun ideas to do with my preschooler.  Well, I came across this great photgraphy web site, Katherine Marie.  She does some great themes with her kids each week and blogs about them (and take gorgeous pictures of them.  I found this build a clown activity that was so clever:

You can find more info about the clown theme here.  Summer is almost here and I plan to refer to her site for many fun ideas this summer.

Not only is this just a fun preschooler idea, but a great carnival/circus party activity.