BADGE: ~April Showers Brings May Flowers

DATES: 4/1 - 4/30

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Pick a leader and ask them if they are available

2. Decide on 3 Activities below. Let your leader know, but you can change your mind if you decide you prefer not to do one you've picked. Just let your leader know which you've switched to. 

3. When you are finished, take photos of everything you did and write a small explanation. If you're a little. Just take the photo.

Activities: ( Choose 3-4)

* Make a sun-catcher, and display it in your windows

* Write a paragraph about the types of clouds there are, and what, if anything they do. 

* Create a cloud out of materials you have at home, e.g. - cotton balls, beads, yarn, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, etc.. use your imagination!

* Create a Spring Bird Feeder

* Plant A Container Fairy Garden

* Cardboard cloud

*Paper plate rainbow craft

* Learn about April's Birth Fower- Daisy

* Fly a Kite

* Start to plan a Summer Bucket List

I chose:

1 -  Create a cloud out of materials you have at home, e.g. - cotton balls, beads, yarn, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, etc.. use your imagination!

2 - Learn about April's Birth Fower- Daisy

3 - Create a Spring Bird Feeder

@Daddy Bear 77 & @Juju 

Here’s my Easter Badge activities! 

1. Easter traditions paragraph:

On Easter I like to wake up and see if the Easter Bunny came. Sometimes I get candy and little toys and it makes me so happy. I like spending time with my family and being cozy. We also go to church together. We eat yummy food together and I get to help with cooking. We also usually like having time outdoors if the weather is nice.

2. Coloring eggs / activity:

I couldn’t find easter eggies. They were sold out everywhere so my family and I roasted peeps and choccy covered eggies over a bonfire. (Forgot to take pics so the fire is kinda dead lol) 

3. Paragraph about your day:

Today was a fun Easter day. I got to do cute activities and relax and feel happy. After going to church, I came home and helped cook Easter dinner. I spent time with my family and with my Daddy. My dog loves a plastic egg toy so I gave her extra egg egg time and she had SO much fun. She and the kitties also got to have a special Easter treat of people food. Once we ate dinner we went outdoors and roasted peeps and choccy covered marshmallows over the fire. Lastly I played video games with Daddy and did my Easter crafts. I had so much fun. 

4. Coloring picture explanation: 

I colored a picture of 2 Easter BunBuns!! The big purple one is Dada, and I’m the pink one!

5. Easter Craft

For my craft I created a handprint chicky!! It was really really fun! 
 

1. In our family we celebrate both Ostara and Easter at this time of year. We have certain traditions we do each year: we always paint eggs and bury them in our garden, I make Easter baking together with my girls, and we have a big Easter dinner with all of my siblings and their kiddos. It’s also a tradition to go to the experimental farm and agricultural museum up here. We get to see all the spring baby animals, make crafts, learn all about cocoa and eggs, and just generally have a hoot!

2. Here are the eggs my girls and I coloured:

3. As part of Easter Day the girls woke up to baskets from the Easter bunny and an egg hunt around the house. I played with them and their new toys and then made Easter cookies. Unfortunately my two year old threw her toy unicorn while we were playing and it landed on my foot and dislocated a toe - darn ehlers joints! But that couldn’t stop the day! (Just meant I had to wear slippers to dinner lol)

After nap we went to the big family dinner with my family. It was both a wonderful day because of all the fun with my girls, and a hard one as the first Easter since separation but still going together as family. One of the best parts of my day was my Easter surprise Daddy made for me so I could have a little holiday magic too, something I haven’t had in a long time. So at the end of my day I got to do a virtual egg hunt with Daddy.

4. I coloured a picture for the season:

5. For the free activity I made sugar cookies and bird nest cookies with the girls:

Easter (April 5th)- You can choose to do a faith badge or a Easter Bun buns Badge, or both! The choice is yours! Cannot start until 12amon the 5th.

Activities: 

* Write a short paragraph about the different traditions you do to celebrate Easter. e.g. Do you go to church? Do you have a special family dinner or is it just you and your Big? Etc... anything you want to write about that pertains to how you celebrate. 

* Color Easter egg(s). Hard boiled or perhaps a blown out egg. (I use to make one of these every year). If you can't color eggs, then Hide eggs and have an Easter egg hunt. Maybe a scavenger hunt.  

* Write a paragraph about your day. What activities did you do to celebrate? If you don't celebrate Easter, possibly write it about Spring and what you like about it. 

* Color a picture of something that symbolizes Easter to you. One about Spring, a Easter bun buns, Eggs, flowers etc...

* Free choice: you pick what you want to make to show us. Your creation. Your imagination. 

All activities for this one is required. 

Show pictures to your leader or contact me, before midnight on the 12th

I chose to learn about azaleas because they’re so bright and pretty in the spring! I found out that they bloom in warm months and come in really beautiful colors! There were so many in my garden. 

I had a picnic with some of my stuffie friends! We had lots of yummy snackies and sat together watching Peter Rabbit.

1: Planted all my vegetables! Cilantro, chives, basil, parsley, cucumber, squash, tomatoes, carrots, kale, lettuce etc  

2: Spring Bird Feeders! 4 different ones for the cardinals and woodpeckers.

3: Pick a flower and write a paragraph about it! 

^^ This is wisteria. It only blooms for about a month in the early springtime. It is native to both the US and Asia. There is Japanese Wisteria, which twists clockwise as it grows and Chinese Wisteria which twists counterclockwise as it grows. It can bloom in both purple and white, and is highly fragrant. It can reach up to 70 feet long and is highly aggressive, which can lead to it strangling mature plants and trees if not pruned properly. Both its flowers and seed pods are toxic to pets and humans but they sure are pretty to look at. 

I had an indoor picnic with my little friend! It was the perfect occasion to catch up   I asked him what he likes doing during the day when I leave home. His answer was pretty evasive...I think he might be up to something!

Also, my best friend invited me on a walk in the forest and I found much material to make this wood fairy! Her hair is made of spruce needles, her top is made of moss, her pant is made of birch bark, her arms are tiny tree branches and her shoes are small tree cones  

My last picture for the month will be in the next post!