Build-A-Bear

On Monday Hurricane Sandy blew through.  School was cancelled for the kids.  Nick and Janet left to avoid the worst part of the storm and I was left with some stir crazy kids!  It was the perfect day for our Build-A-Bear project.  A couple of years ago I bought some kits at Michaels on clearance (for maybe $3 each) to sew your own Build-A-Bear.  I pulled out the 4 kits and we went to work on sewing our bears.  I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went considering how much help they needed from me.  The kits were awesome.  The heads were done, but the bodies needed to be sewed together.  They had pre-punched holes, large plastic needles, and thick 'thread'.  The kids sewed the bears, right sides together, turned them right-side out, stuffed them with fluff and little hearts and then sewed the bottoms together.  I helped a lot, especially the younger two - but it was a fun project.  After lunch we put iron-on decals on their clothes and dressed the bears.  There were three 'boy' bears and only 1 'girl' bear - but the girls shared all the girl clothes and iron-on decals and made it work without any fighting (which is unusual).   We also rented Madagascar 3(cute movie) from the Red Box and we made it a good day!

 The bears came with birth certificates as well - so they discussed and decided on names while they were sewing.  Lilah (who did not want her picture taken) is posing with her bear, Jewel Olivia, Calvin with Taco Nick (yes, after his new uncle), Madeline with Caroleena Trish, and Anna Elise with Claire Brooke.

Our one mis-hap of the day.  I had the iron warming up to do the decals and 'someone' knocked it over on the floor and then didn't tell mommy.  Burned carpet in my bedroom.  We are planning on replacing this carpet next summer, so it will be ok.