School Love

Last night, Issa and I set out to make the teacher gifts. She chose candy cane sugar scrub for her gifts this year. We made the scrub last night, and then she very carefully packed it into jars:

 I actually love the scrub, and they are super cute:

 The label reads "For your helping hands: Candy cane sugar scrub." The recipe is simply

2 c. of sugar

1/3 c. light olive oil

1/8 c. coconut oil

1/4 t. peppermint extract

Stir the ingredients together, and then add a few drops of food coloring to half the mixture. Layer into jars and voila!

 

I always love making teacher gifts with Issa, but this year has a little extra meaning. I am especially grateful for such a wonderful school this Christmas...

 

Last week, we went to the school's art festival. The art teacher coordinated the evening. There were a series of stations, and what I loved was that the children's art was center stage. The famous inspirations were there as a "by the way, this guy did this, too." The first project was air clay pots:





 A friendly note: let the air clay dry all the way before you stack the pots. We got to make ours twice because Mom didn't think that one all the way through and we had a big stuck-together pile of pots.

Then we made tribal masks:

 And Evan played clay some more:

 And we made didgeridoos for music class:

 Became part of the Mona Lisa:

 And worked on a school bottle cap mural.

 It was a fantastic evening, followed by a fabulous field trip to a children's museum the next day:

There is nothing like a little drumming to ring in the holidays!