pizza for dinner

Sometimes the kids ask to make their own pizza's for dinner.  I'm not a big fan. It's kind of messy and takes a lot of time with setting it up, prepping the dough, and then baking it.  But I did give them the go-ahead last week, and since I have my homemade dough available in the fridge (thanks to http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/) I figured it would take as long. 

Here's how my artist fixed up her pie:

little art project~ what a hoot!

Last week my three girls stayed over at their grandpa's house while I ran an errand with my son, and my dad' wife set up such a neat art project for them to work on while I was gone.  She had found a magazine full of great looking projects and put it in my hand the week before.  I flipped through it, and all I could think of was how I knew there was no way on God's earth I would ever get all the materials, time, or patience to do ANY of those projects.  And they looked so unique and polished; not messy and headed for the trash.  I suggested maybe they could do these when the girls ever came over to their house, and wouldn't you know, the opportunity came up just days later. 

I can't wait to see future projects.  These are things I might put in frames or hang in our school room.  Here are a couple of pictures of the finished products.  I don't have any links or instructions because they came from this magazine she has. 

below, the whole gang gathered on the desk for a photo shoot



close up of a couple of owls and butterflies



this one has a little feather thing going on... so stylish

 also, they hot-glued sticks to them so that they could put them in vases or something