Dolls for Kindergarten

These dolls are for Isabella's kindergarten. Her teacher asked me to make them because she wants to explain skin colour to the kids. She picked out the fabric and gave me a sketch of what she wanted.

Hallowe'en at Isabella's Kindergarten

The Huskies in action

Here is some video of the last couple of minutes of last night's game.

Hallowe'en

Here is the group that went out on Halloween. There was one more boy that joined up with us a little later and Isabella and the other little one only lasted about half an hour. The other little girl's dad took them home.

So, from the back L-R we have a Men In Black agent, Batman, Elf, Singer, and Snow White. In the front L-R we have a Princess, Yellow Power Ranger Spirit of the Cheetah (Isabella), a cheetah (Katerina), and White Power Ranger Spirit of the Rhino (Joshua).

The children had great fun and brought home copious amounts of candy. They kept some candy but are trading the remainder for a wall poster (each) of their choice. We will go pick them out this week.

Here is a closeup of the cheetah costume. I used Simplicity 2855, size M. She loved the costume and because I made it a little larger, she will have a couple of years of play out of it, too.

Choices. Choices. Choices.

A day at The Prairie Gardens

It was a perfect day for a field trip. All the kindergarten children from Isabella's school went on a field trip to The Prairie Gardens in Bon Accord.

Coming off the 1-hour bus ride:


From the bus, we went to a puppet show:


After the puppet show, we went through the haunted house. Isabella ended up a little too scared but she perked right up on the hayride.


As we were traveling around on the hayride, we saw this ship in the distance. For a couple of dollars (proceeds to charity), a person could shoot a pumpkin towards it out of a cannon. We didn't partake in this activity.


Following the hayride, we went to the petting zoo. We saw sheep, bunnies, and alpacas.






After a good hand sanitizing, we played in a ball pit constructed from hay bales and had a great adventure in the corn maze. On the way to the pumpkin patch, we rocked out with the skeleton band:


The prize of the day was being able to pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch.


We all had a nice picnic lunch and some playing in the playground to burn off a bit of after-lunch energy, and then back to school. It was a gorgeous day and lots of fun!

Isabella in hockey gear

Hockey time is nearing so we had to see if Joshua's gear fits Isabella. Ayup.