preVacation Make-ys

No, no funky seersucker pants this year. But I have been making some fun stuff for our vacation. (We leave tomorrow!! yay!)

For Marlowe:

When Ellis was 2, I got two blank Tshirts at Target, always meaning to freezer paper stencil them. Never got around to it, and he wore those shirts blank all summer. Always felt bad about it.
Well, now Marlowe is 2, and I got him two blank Ts at Target, bc he needed a couple extra shirts. And this time I got around to it!

I did an applique squirrel on one, and a freezer paper stencil of wind turbines on the other. I love the funky birds of the Jay MacCarroll print Germania. I'm using it in every thing, so sorry for the deja vu. :) I'm a little bummed my stencil got a little smudged. I ended up with several layers of paint.

Also for M. I was doing a lamination project for E (see below), so I wanted to do something for M to feel included. I laminated a bunch of pics that I got printed out at Staples, and stuck magnetic tape to the back of them. With a magnetic dry erase board, he is set. (He will NOT be getting a marker!)

For Ellis:

This is project I'm most excited about.

E loves writing words! He's constantly asking us how to spell things. He can't read yet (he just turned 5!), but he's doing a lot great preliteracy things. I made these sheets for him in the Mac Pages program. Pictures of things relevant to vacation, with the words, and a space for him to write the word. I printed them at Staples and got them to laminate them. He can write on them with dry erase marker now! They turned out awesome! I'm so excited about it!! I think he'll love these.