a little celebrating

the other night we had a couple neighborhood families over to celebrate Kai's birthday. He wanted a tie dye and art party, with a fire pit dinner. so that's what we did. since there wasn't a crazy number of kids here, the art in the house went pretty smooth. the weather turned out really great for some outdoor fun too.

we set up our long table for a collage project. each kid received a plain piece of wood and could add whatever they wanted - paint, buttons, fabric, ribbon,cotton, etc.

the kid's art table was set up for painting rocks, and also general art stuff - crayons, markers, scissors, pencils for drawing.

preparing the art tables before the party ....

and, of course a fire pit picture. i love these, even though they're dark and often blurry. (need to bring out the tripod.)

yesterday was his celebration at his school. i really like how the montessori school acknowledges the child's birth day.

and i think now the week long celebrating is over. on to december! christmas .... already!