Jun. 7, 2006 - Co-Op, Painting Kitchens, clothespin dolls

Heading over to my friend Stephanie's today for co-op. That will be a big change! We're going to help her get the rest of her kitchen painted. She's doing a ragging texture and just hasn't gotten it finished. A lot of it is above cabinets and stuff and the woman is very pregnant, I don't think she could reach them without fear of falling!:)

Anyway, I have enough experience painting walls and its really something that just doesn't take much time/effort on my part ~ so we're trading today and she's going to do art and writing with the little girls and I'm taking the screen printing kit for the older girls to do.

The girls and I got a bunch of stuff sorted through and got the reading room cleaned, vaccuumed, etc.  Then we went to Stephanie's house and she and I got the rest of her kitchen ragged/painted in 45 minutes! The little girls made clothespin dolls and a big "floorplan" type house on a big piece of mattboard.  That kept the two middle girls (7 & 8) busy for two HOURS. 

Stephanie and I sat down to "help" Abyni and M.G. do the hair for their dolls after the painting was done, and ended up sitting there, putting yarn hair on dolls for about 30 minutes ~ having a blast ~ while the little girls were on the floor coloring their "house" ~ which, BTW ~ has a hot tub:)

Sprite, Kerra and Caitlin got their designs done for the screen printing T-shirt they're going to do.  It was realy cute:)  And only took them about three months to finally thing of one!  Caitlin will be in Sprite's Biology co-op next year as well as doing the same Starting Points curriculum as well.  She brought Sprite a T-shirt that has the old Sprite logo on the front, and says "I like the Sprite in You" on the back ~~ awwwww!  We have been looking for a "real" Sprite T-shirt forEVER!!

Now I'm tired and ready to rest...