Rainbow Countdown Calendar

Ever since Peanut found out she was going to school she's been asking us daily if she can go to school.  I decided the best way to stop the asking was to make a countdown calendar for her so she could see how much longer it was until school started.  I spent a couple days mulling over ideas until I came up with the rainbow.  This way Peanut is learning about the rainbow and different colors while counting down the days until the start of school.

It ended up being a very cheap project.  $.39 for the poster board (which, I didn't use the whole piece) and $.40 for the box of Crayola crayons which will be just fine once we're done.  I love the back to school sales.  I buy a few boxes of crayons each fall to get us through the year.

For the Rainbow I used my protractor and did it in 1/2" increments.  I then retraced my lines with a sharpie.  As you can tell, I don't draw very straight (curved?) lines.

I used a sharpie to right the numbers and then wrote the color of the crayon using the crayon.  I'm such a genius.  Then I taped the crayon below the word.  In hindsight, I wish I had put 19 right under 18.  So, if you make one, I suggest you do that.  I think it would be prettier.

Peanut was quite excited to start coloring her rainbow.  She's already asked a few more times today if she could color another one.  At least she's bugging me about something other than when school starts.

Foam Eggs

I cut these out before the demise of my Cricut Expression.  I cut out the foam eggs and the squiggly lines.  Then I used a container of sticky back foam flowers I already had.   Peanut really enjoyed decorating her eggs.  Anything that involves a glue stick and stickers is great fun in her book.  Sticky back magnetic strips on the back finished them off!  She's been enjoying playing with them on the fridge for the last couple weeks.  

Happy Easter!