Happy Grandparent’s Day to all of the grandmas, grandpas, mimis, pop pops, gigis, granddaddies, nanas, pops, or whatever name you are called by your little angels 🙂
Today the Herndon Rotary Club partnered with AARP to put on the Classic Car Show on the village green. Grandparent’s Day was part of the celebration. I volunteered at the arts and crafts table because it is so much fun to watch how kids create.
Have you heard of the cre8time movement? It’s about taking time each month, week, day to do something creative to recharge yourself. There’s a good video that describes the idea here.
I admit it. I am partial to die cutting… so out came the Sizzix Big Shots and dies. Boy was that a blast! Those kids (and some parents!) just went to town… we had kids making butterflies and flowers, coloring them, decorating with stickers, markers, stamps and ink- some kids made boxes, until we ran out of matboard…
Turns out we had record attendance and there were way more kids than anticipated. Luckily, we had enough paper and other supplies to allow everyone that stopped by to leave with a fun finished project.
I am happy to report that my husband Hayward was one of the volunteers in the booth so I was able to educate him on how to operate a Big Shot (how is it possible that he does not know this after me blabbing about dies for FOUR YEARS?) Could be he was totally yanking my chain, but whatever.
Have you heard of the cre8time movement? It’s about taking time each month, week, day to do something creative to recharge yourself. There’s a good video that describes the idea here.
I admit it. I am partial to die cutting… so out came the Sizzix Big Shots and dies. Boy was that a blast! Those kids (and some parents!) just went to town… we had kids making butterflies and flowers, coloring them, decorating with stickers, markers, stamps and ink- some kids made boxes, until we ran out of matboard…
Turns out we had record attendance and there were way more kids than anticipated. Luckily, we had enough paper and other supplies to allow everyone that stopped by to leave with a fun finished project.
I am happy to report that my husband Hayward was one of the volunteers in the booth so I was able to educate him on how to operate a Big Shot (how is it possible that he does not know this after me blabbing about dies for FOUR YEARS?) Could be he was totally yanking my chain, but whatever.
Here he is, busily cutting down paper using my handy dandy
Westcott paper trimmer before the crowds arrive.
And then they arrived… and kept arriving!
Bob Packard of EmbroidMe was a quick study and showed everyone how to make 3D flowers using the Trinity’s Flower die. Many thanks to ThermoWeb for the icraft tape that you donated to the cause- we used it to hold all of the flowers and boxes together!
Did I mention it was about 90 degrees? Note to self- next time wear shorts.
Elsa was to our left and she was running the butterfly and card section- sorry did not get any pics of that- too busy. Hayward wound up at the bracelet station- he gets the sunburn award 🙁
We were right next to a portable stage and it was cool to watch them just fold it up and drive away.
Rotarians rolling an antique hearse up the bike path and across the street to the Adams-Green Funeral Home… getting their exercise.
It was a great event. But I must admit after it was over we were quite ready to pack it in and head home for naps… ahhhh.
I hope you were able to do something cre8tive this weekend!
Looks like the kids had a great time. So nice of you and your hubby to do that. If I had attended, I would have been right in there with those kids…lol. Thanks for sharing the pics!
Such a fun event! I bet the kids had so much fun with all the die cut papers. It is sort of like magic to see how the Big Shot works.
Great idea Eileen! Hi, it’s Mel, from Sweet Retreat, this is such a nice thing to do, great job husband did! I wish you were closer, like in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington-DE, anywhere within 50 miles. Now my daughter, she loves your flower dies, OMG!! I have to get the Fence Die also, very soon, she’s driving me a little crazy about it. LOL. We love your Dies!! Now I know the person who designed those , you are simply awesome, one of the greatest people I’ve met in my life!! Just thought I’d let you know, I’m sure it takes. Lot of time to do all this work, it’s paying off. You got a lot of friends who support you!!
This looks like it was so much fun…for kids of ALL ages!