Teacher Appreciation Project

Lowes did this as a Mother's Day  project on the Thursday night before Mother's Day, but I had my kids make it for their teachers for teacher appreciation week. Since Jasmine is in high school, she made hers for her voice teacher.

The project had a very small yellow container for a flower, but the ones they let them choose from were way too big to fit in the yellow container.

See how much bigger the plant is than the yellow container? I had them just take it separately. The teachers can always use the yellow container for paperclips or something.

Kaleb taking his to school. Kayla ended up staying home that day because she threw up.

Jessica, Jasmine and I have gone to two Home Depot women's DIY projects, but since there has been such a big turn out, they are going to start charging for them now. So I guess our project days with them are over.

Building Stuff

Some of us have been taking advantage of the free building workshops for adults at Home Depot, and the free ones for kids at both Lowes and Home Depot. We did them a couple of years ago, then stopped for a while, and then started up a couple of months ago.

Here are some of the projects.

Lowes had cars to make from kits the first three times. 

There's a patch for each completed project.

They made a butterfly house at Home Depot.

Jessica, her mother in law Lisa, Jasmine and I went to a women's workshop at Home Depot. We removed slats from a wood crate.

 Cut it in half with a power saw.

Put the slats back on and added legs to the two halves to make a vegetable stand.

Mine is actually right here in my writing area holding the books I'm using.

Then Lowes had a birdhouse project.

Tyler hung one of them in a tree.

In the next few weeks, the kids have an Angry Birds birdhouse at Home Depot. Jessica, Lisa and I have two womens' ones at Home Depot. Jasmine is joining us for one of them. Tyler, Jessica, Lisa and I are doing two general ones at Home Depot.

If you haven't tried the projects with your kids, give it a go. They may love it. And it's a good bonding thing. It's something Rick does with them. And it's free.

Here is the link to sign up for the Angry Birds birdhouse. You can check for it in your area by zip code. HERE

The women's ones are HERE

The general ones are HERE

And the Lowe's ones are HERE

Let me know in the comments section if you've done any of them or if you plan too.