It is crazy how quickly this school year is flying – the wee girl’s 100th day of 1st grade is today. She had an assignment to bring in a poster pertaining to the 100th day of school. I popped on Pinterest to spark some ideas and found an adorable project concept on South Shore Mamas. We played with the general idea from the image they shared and added a few twists of our own.
Our girl thought it would be fun to number each of the hearts 1-100. They’ve been writing their numbers 0-1,000 on worksheets at school over these last couple of weeks, so the timing of this was perfect for a little more practice.
After that, we started on the poster. She wanted to color in the letters for the title at the top. I helped draw the letters for her & she chose the colors & colored them in.
Similar to the version on South Shore Mamas, we used the outline of her hand as the branches for the tree. She didn’t want to color the bark, but wanted to make sure to add bluebirds as well as a hole in the tree with an owl’s eyes peeking out. Using the numbered heart stickers, she randomly applied them around the tree trunk as the leaves.
Once the stickers were in place, she decided to draw a deer eating leaves & a flower at the bottom of the poster board. This was a great winter-weekend project & inexpensive, too. Found the bag of stickers at the dollar store for $1 and the poster board for 50-cents. She also liked that we used the hearts since this is Valentine’s week, too.
