Leopard's Party

Grace loves story time and story activities, so when

we read about Leopard's surprise birthday party

we had to have a little surprise of our own.

 We made a birthday pinata!

 I simply took a package of tissue paper and cut it

up into little squares and let the girls glue them onto

a plain paper grocery sack!

 Olivia liked playing with the colored

tissue paper!

 Grace liked the glueing! This girl loves

making a good mess!

 Some of the paper she glued on in wads

and some of it she laid out flat.

But - either way was fine with me!

I didn't really expect this project

to be beautiful!

It's entire purpose was to entertain!

 However, it did turn out pretty cute!

 After the sack was fairly well covered

with tissue paper - we read another

story or two while it dried.

Then - we filled it with candy and

hung it from a piece of heavy twine

and Grace beat the stuffing out of it!

 And I somehow managed to keep

Olivia safely out of the way!

 Wham!

 What a party!

 

After busting open the pinata, we even

had a cake!

 Gracie blew out the candles for

Leopard and we sang him the

birthday song!

 And then she poured each of us

a nice cup of tea!

 Yummy!

And after eating the frosting off of

her own piece of cake, Gracie continued

to pick the frosting off of the

rest of the cake as well.

I guess she figured she needed to

enjoy enough cake for

Leopard, too!

Odds are he likes the frosting

the best!