School is out but not the sun. I am beginning to think we live in the rain forest. While everything looks all lush and green and healthy, I'm hoping we don't get any tropical diseases along with the view. And while it is raining outdoors, we are indoors, dreaming about what we are going to do when we get a warm sunny afternoon. Today we decided to make those dreams a little more concrete with a Summer Bucket List Banner to remind us what we have to look forward to.
I am so in love with this "Boys Will Be Boys" Cricut cartridge. There are tons of fun images and a cool font. For this project, each kid got to dig through my cardstock piles and choose 3 colors, one for the bucket, bucket lip and shovel. This pink one is mine. I cut the bucket and layers at 11 & 1/2 ".
I just glued the layers down with regular old glue sticks. The note paper came from my daughters tiny princess pocket notebook. I just trimmed the edges to make it fit better.
Due to the small lines I did the writing for L and J but C wrote his own. Here's what's on my list:
- Make Homemade Poptarts from this recipe at Smitten Kitchen
- Take kids to the Columbus Ohio Zoo. It is supposed to be the best in the country and we've never been.
- Do a photo shoot of the kids at the botanical gardens. It is so beautiful there, much prettier than any backdrop at a photo studio.
- Redo my office/junk room into a craft room
- Learn to can/jar
- Read a steamy romance novel ( I sometimes take myself too seriously and will only read "literature") So if you have a title of a good summer romance for me to read, I'd love to hear it!
I used my big bite to punch holes through the bucket handles and ribbon and then attached them with gem brads.
What's on your summer bucket list?
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What a great idea Becky!!
You guys will LOVE the zoo. We get a zoo pass every year. The kids really enjoy it and I have a lot of fun taking pictures there :)
Posted by: Christi B. | May 25, 2011 at 08:39 PM
That is so cute!!! I would love for you to share this at my For the Kids link party! I just posted a new party tonight... come join the fun!
http://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/05/for-kids-friday-12.html
Posted by: Rachel | May 27, 2011 at 12:03 AM
Great idea!
Posted by: Deneen | May 27, 2011 at 08:52 AM
Adorable! My list would have to include more blogging, but to be fair, I don't have any kids to distract me.
Be extra sure to stop by my blog to vote for the winner of the Best in Show award this week! I think you'll be happy to see which blogger was nominated ;)
Posted by: Lamb | May 27, 2011 at 08:46 PM
I love your idea of a bucket list with actual buckets and I love that you allowed each of your kids to write their own lists!! Great idea.
I'm hosting a Summer Fun party to collect all sorts of fun ideas for summer vacation ~ it would be awesome if you'd link this up!
http://cometogetherkids.blogspot.com/2011/05/summer-fun-party.html
Posted by: Laura@ComeTogetherKids | May 28, 2011 at 08:05 PM
How fun!
Posted by: Celeste | May 29, 2011 at 12:16 AM
This is so cute! I love it! I was just thinking about what I want to do with my kids this summer.
Posted by: Kim | May 29, 2011 at 06:26 PM
What a fun idea! Thanks for stopping by and sharing! :)
Posted by: Lindsey | May 31, 2011 at 01:38 PM
I'd love for you to share this with our summer bucket list!
http://smilemonsters.blogspot.com/2011/05/summer-2011-bucket-list.html
Jo @ SmileMonsters
Posted by: Jo | June 02, 2011 at 11:21 AM
adorable and so much fun! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Posted by: crafts@creativejewishmom.com | June 02, 2011 at 04:59 PM
This is really very nice idea. I want to make this summer bucket list banner. It looking so wonderful.
Posted by: Debt Advice | August 07, 2011 at 10:55 PM
Awesome! I saw this and had to make one for my son, who loves it.
Posted by: kamagra | March 18, 2012 at 07:02 AM
So cute! I'm going to use it with my summer school class :)
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