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Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
I’ve always loved motorcycles and one of my favorite things to do is travel up to the Black Hills South Dakota, to attend the Sturgis motorcycle rally. I’ve only been lucky enough to go one time but it was a blast and I had the time of my life. Two years ago I got to…
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String Art
On Monday July 18th, we did an art project in the afternoon. We started off by painting the canvas white or grey so the background was wet. We dipped yarn into paint. I chose the colors blue, yellow, green, red and purple. We laid the string down in a zig zag pattern on the wet…
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Creating a Welcome Sign
I created my welcome sign out of wood. Staff hand painted the sunflowers. We used stencils to write welcome on it with black paint. We used yellow, green, and brown paint for the sunflowers. I found this idea on Pinterest, which enjoy looking at for craft ideas on. This project took two weeks to create.
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Seedling Update
Happy summer everyone! Just wanted to share an update on the marigold seeds I planted a few weeks ago! I sat them in my kitchen window to get constant sun and I’ve been making sure to water them. They are growing nicely and I can’t wait to see how they look next week!
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Star spangled door hanger
Friday afternoon for craft in celebration of the forth of July, my peers and staff and myself did a craft. We made star spangled door hangers. Staff assisted me in painting and assembling the stars with popsicle sticks, then we connected them using ribbon. We chose to decorate them with red white and blue yarn…
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Sprouting my seedling!!!!
So as you all know my last blog was about the flower pot that I had painted. Well I decided to plant marigolds in my flower pot and a couple days ago I finally realize that it was sprouting. Lol and as I’m sitting here I just now realized I have a lady bug climbing…
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Bocce Ball Tournament
Friday was a wonderful day at the workshop. We got to have some of our friends from other cities come up and join us for a bocce ball tournament. It started at about 10 AM we all went outside and had some cookies and water, applied or sunscreen and got ready for a day of…
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Painting a Flower Pot
Last Friday for crafts at the workshop we painted small flower pots. Staff helped me paint mine. It was purple with a glitter rim and gold streaks. We had to wait for it today before outing the potting soil in it. Monday we put potting soil in it. We put marigold seeds in the soil…
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Home for the weekend
I had a very nice and relaxing weekend. Saturday I got to go and visit my parents. They live just a few blocks away from me in Hay Springs Nebraska. My mom and dad live in a bright green house on the corner of town, you can’t miss it! While I was at my parents…
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My Fair Project
A few weeks ago, my staff and I worked on a project to enter into the Dawes County Fair. I found a picture online of a windmill clock on Pinterest. Staff picked up the clock kit from Walmart, and we had the rest of the supplies at the workshop. Staff figured out how to assemble…