Written by Lydia Jeub, Craft Idea by Cynthia Jeub

It was an ordinary day in the Jeub home. It was nine o’clock: school time. Cynthia was looking for a craft to do for school. She found a very creative craft. First she found a big piece of paper and drew a turkey. Then she took a bunch of colored paper and put everybody’s hand and it and traced around their fingers and cut out the hands. Then everybody shared something they were thankful for. Then Cynthia helped write what they were thankful for on their hands then glued them to the turkey to make feathers. Then she hung it on the wall.

It looks like the best Thanksgiving picture on the wall this year.

• Cynthia was thankful for a good home.
• Lydia was thankful for good friends.
• Isaiah was thankful for lots of Legos.
• Micah was thankful for his quilt.
• Noah was thankful that Thanksgiving was coming.
• Keilah was thankful for candy.
• Hannah was thankful for her tea set.

We liked doing this craft. Some other Thanksgiving ideas:
http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/turkyday.htm
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/thanksgiving.html#leafturkey
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/turkeycrafts/a/blturkhpr.htm
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/articles/111098.htm

Happy Thanksgiving from the Jeub Family!

By Micah Jeub (with help from Isaiah, Lydia and Dad)

Welcome to Making Micah’s Armor. It took me three days to put all of the following things together to make body armor:

• 99 juice can lids
• 100 pipe cleaners
• 1 rusty cookie pan
• A big and a little board
• A sparkley shirt (fake chainmail)

I got the juice can lids from 3 years of frozen concentrated juice. These tins make great armor. The pipe cleaners are used to tie all the tins together. To prepare the tins, punch holes in the lids with a hammer and a nail. Use the pipe cleaners to weave into the shirt. I used an old shirt that had sparkley things on them. You could use an old shirt, too.

Here’s some tins woven togehter.

Here’s my finished shirt.

I used an old cookie sheet with a flat board for my shield. I put them together with pipe cleaners. I also used pipe cleaners for the strap holders. There are two straps: one for the wrist and one for the upper arm. The shield is very sturdy, enough to hold back your enemies.

Here’s the shield when finished.

The shirt wasn’t sturdy enough alone, so I added a board to its back. I used pipe cleaners to weave it together. Here’s a picture:

I also made elbow, knee and other body armor. Here’s pictures of that:

Here’s me with my armor on! I hope you can make something like this too!

By Lydia Jeub

The Pinewood Derby consisted of Cynthia, Lydia, Isaiah, Micah, Noah and (for the first year) Tabitha.

Cynthia made a Thanksgiving table and made the Turkey out of play dough and glued it to a piece of cloth. Then she glued it to her car and painted the car brown.

Lydia made just an ordinary car and painted it silver. She drilled one hole all the way through her car to go for speed (not most creative).

Isaiah made a Viking ship. He made a paddle boat at first then he made a circle and put it on top. He painted that part brown. Then he cut a metal sheet and put triangles of the metal on the top of the boat and put five bolts on each side for shields.

Micah made a torpedo. First he made a pencil shape. Then he made two triangles of wood and glued them to the sides diagonally. Then he made one strait piece and put it in between the other pieces and painted it silver.

Noah made an ordinary race car and painted it gold and painted the front silver.

Tabitha (it is her first year in Sparks and her first year in Pinewood Derby) made a teddy bear. She drew it on her wood and cut it and painted it brown. Then she painted it eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

At Awana Pinewood Derby Night

The first person to race their (in our family) was Lydia. She had the ordinary car but it was fast. She got 2nd place two inches from the winner and three feet away from the two other cars.

The next person to race was Cynthia. She had the turkey dinner car. She thought her car was going to be the slowest car but the most creative, but she won first place on a practice round!

The next person to race was Isaiah, Micah, Noah, and Tabitha all at once. Tabitha won 1 st place. Isaiah got 2nd place Noah got 3 rd place Micah got 4 th place. After it was over we listened to the awards. Cynthia won 3rd place in speed and 1st place in most creative. Lydia didn’t win a trophy but she won a ribbon saying that she was there. Isaiah won 3rd place in creative (he had the cool ship). Micah didn’t win a trophy but he had the time of his life and got a ribbon. Noah got a ribbon and had the time of his life watching Tabitha’s car. Tabitha won 1st place in speed and had a blast running to get her car.

The End

Other pictures:

Talk about keep the kids busy! All my children single-handedly developed a western story and acted it out with the digital camera. It took them the entire day posing and shooting and such. It was a great home-school project: click here to read .

It was an ordinary day at the Jeub house. Cynthia was feeling better, and the little Jeubs were enjoying a nice warm breakfast while listening to Dad read from “The Lord of the Rings”. After breakfast, Dad shared an idea with them. “I have an idea,” Dad had said. “Why don’t all of you get dressed up and go outside and play ‘The lone ranger’ and make up your own story.” So, after we had cleaned up breakfast, we got all dressed up. But as soon as we stepped outside, they were no longer themselves nor were we in our own back yard. They were in the Wild West, inside their imaginations. Read the rest of this entry »