stART: Red, Red, Red by Valeri Gorbachev (or Mommy is seeing red today...)

Have you ever had a "bright" idea that fizzled?

I certainly did today...

Since we have been doing school gradually,
but full-time this week,
I thought that including stART would be fun
for the kiddos...

AND it would have-
if I had thought things through a bit more...

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Since the color of the week at our house is red,
I read...

Red, Red, Red,
by
Valeri Gorbachev
to the kiddos at the end of our lessons today.

In the story, a turtle leads a group of animals
on a hike to see the
"Red, red, red!"

It turns out to be a beautiful red sunset.

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A while back,
I saw Filth Wizardry's post
on a fun way to get kiddos starting on embroidery
using shelf liner from the Dollar Tree.

I thought,
"Today is the day we will try this."

We will embroider our own red sunsets.

This did NOT go over well.

Probably not the smartest idea
to embroider without
EMBROIDERY NEEDLES.

I *thought* I could wrap some tape around
the end of one of the ends of the yarn
to create a needle like effect,
since I had no embroidery needles.

It didn't fly.

The younger two colored their suns red
and my eldest just wants to wait for the needle.

I don't blame her.

*sigh*

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