Alabama vs Auburn ~ Sorry Georgia Fans....

First of all, a disclaimer to all my Georgia friends who are Georgia fans. I am not turning my back on Georgia, but I just finished a project for McKane's teacher and thought I'd share. Evidently there is a HUGE rivalry between Auburn and Alabama. The school has a reading contest between Aubie (Auburn tiger) and Big AL the (Alabama elephant). McKane's teacher rescued two plastic trash cans-turned robots from the trash heap and asked me if could do something to them to represent the mascots. I sooooooooooooo wish I had taken a "before" picture so you could really appreciate them. They started out blue, red and yellow. I spray painted both cans, one orange and one gray. Then downloaded coloring pages for each mascot. Out came the glitter, crayons, markers, ribbon, mod podge and VOILA!!!! Here is what we ended up with. I took them to her today and she was thrilled! So glad my talents are being recognized here in the great state of Alabama. Oh, while reading to the kids today a story about things found in the rain forest, we talked about oak trees. I asked the children what came from oak trees and one little boy said "Okra!" How cute is that? All kids are awesome no matter where you find them.

 

VBS Week

Well, we have been in Alabama for 2 weeks enjoying getting to know some of the locals. The kids attended VBS at Pine Grove Baptist Church.

 

 

To say I was amazed would be a huge understatement. There were fabulous decorations and lots of helpers. There were over 700 kids there. Let me just say that this VBS ran like a well oiled machine. The Pastor's wife (Mrs. Joan) had it under control. They had the kids for 3 hours every day. I think she has done this before.

 

 

I stayed and offered my services and was put in crafts. (Are you surprised?) Didn't think so. Here are a few of our crafts. The theme was "I Love NY" so all of the crafts had to do with New York City, the big apple, etc. Did you know that New York had over 17,000 traffic lights? Neither did I.