Last Day of School!

Today was the last day of school for KateLynn & Levi. I sure am going to miss this year because I know this was my last year of sanity before it gets real hectic. I'm sure you're thinking, 'This year seemed pretty hectic...' and you'd be correct. However, next year I will have three kids in school. Not to mention the fact that one will be a 6th grader (last year in elementary school) and I'll have a kindergardener, so I will be flooded with '1st' & 'last' activities from both ends! Of course, I still have Levi's 3rd year on top of all of that....shew I feel tired already just thinking of it. =)

OK, enough of that, back to this year...I saw this adorable chalkboard made completely out of chocolate that I wanted to make for the teachers. You can't beat chocolate! So here is what we have:

I started with the 6 pack of Hershey bars (but I only used 3 of them.) Flip them over & line them up side by side...I very gently smoothed the 2 "seems" together so it looked like one candy bar. Then, sprinkled with powdered sugar...Smear the powder sugar with a paper towel over the chocolate It looks like a used chalkboard now...Melt white candy melts or white chocolate, put in a ziploc bag & squeeze chocolate into a straw. Put the straw in the freezer for 5-10 min. Then, use a skewer to push the chocolate out (this will be the 'chalk')...I squeezed some of the chocolate on a ziploc bag while it was still warm to make some school shapes...I used the melted chocolate to attach the shapes to the chocolate bar...I did something different here. Originally, they used the "chalk" pieces to write the message on the candy bar, but mine kept breaking & melting, so I just piped on my message with the chocolate...Then, I attached my "chalk" with more melted chocolate...I put the bars in a gift bag. I wanted it to gather at the top with the ribbon, but the bars were too wide. So I stapled the opening to make it the bottom & used the original bottom to tie the ribbon on...After I bagged KateLynn's, I decided to add some food coloring to Levi's. I wish I would have thought of that for KateLynn's...Thanks for such an amazing year! I'm so glad Levi had a male teacher. It was the best thing for him...KateLynn's teacher was so sweet and great too...I didn't do anything for KateLynn's class for the end of the year, because I had already done so much for them throughout the year. However, I hadn't done anything for Levi's class, so I focused the last 2 days on his....

Pizza Party!
I brought my checkered table clothes to give it that pizzeria feel. Simple but the kids liked it...The kids went through 10 pizzas, what a bunch of piglets...The room moms put together a blank scrapbook page of pictures for each student to sign & decorate. Mr. K is moving this year so we are really going to miss him! Levi's pages...Kids' pages...Playing games:Stacking desks...Good-bye 2nd & 5th grade....hello 3rd & 6th grade!!!