Bugs in My Pocket

I made a little book for a little girl that is a friend of ours. It was her birthday. We had such warm weather a while ago that all I could think of was gardens. I guess that's where this story came from. I had so much fun doing the artwork for it and coming up with the story line. The kids had fun making little books to. Drew's is a flap riddle book and Israels is a glue-whatever-he-wanted-to-into-it-book.

Tomorrow I'll show how to make a 12" by 12" scrapbook paper into a mini-book. I don't remember where I learned this from but it is easy and very fun so give it a try. The blank books make great gifts too... or sticker or writing books for little kids too.

cover

page 1

page 2

page 2-flap open

page 3

page 3-flap open

page 4

page 4-flap open

page 5

page 5-flap open

page 6

page 6-flap open

page 7

I love teaching my kids about nature. And we always love to grow sunflowers! Here's my own little girl tending her sunflower garden a few years ago.

And a sunflower we grew worthy of a prize!

And our sunflower garden from 2 years ago.

I plan to give the book I made with a little sunflower planted in a pot. Now, sunflowers don't transplant well because they don't like their roots disturbed but they do well started in a peat pot then put straight into the ground peat pot and all.