Spring is tomorrow (even if it doesn’t feel like it!) Here is an easy craft to celebrate the start of Spring!Daffodil Pinwheel Craft This cute daffodil craft uses the basic pinwheel with a cup on the front to form a daffodil. You can use the templates I’ve provided or design your own using:
Fun foam ones are nice and sturdy, but you’ll need to use straight pins instead of push pins to make them. |
Materials:
- paper
- printer
- something to color with
- pencil with eraser at the end (unsharpened is best, I think)
- push pin or straight pin
- optional: a small bead (like a pony bead)
- optional: green paint
Instructions:
- Optional: paint your pencil green so it looks like the stem of a flower.
- Optional: you can print the B&W template on yellow paper.
- Take the circle and crimp it along the lines to make an orange cup shape.
- Fold the rectangular template piece on the dashed line to make a square decorated on both sides.
- Glue the square together so you have a square decorated on both sides.
- Cut on the diagonal dotted lines (don’t cut all the way into the middle).
- Bend each corner to the center dot, but don’t crease your folds.
- Place the cup in the middle of the pinwheel.
- Push a pin through the center into the eraser of a pencil (don’t push it super tight)
- Optional: put a bead in between the eraser and the paper … some people find it spins a bit better this way… I’ve never noticed the difference (maybe it’s the type of pencil eraser? I use fresh, unsharpened school pencils)
- Place it in a vase or pot and decorate your springtime table.
Template:
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That feeling to cross the finish line is indescribable. The whole stress drops from me and I have tears in the eyes. My legs are shaking and I have the feeling I can’t move any further but my friends are there, hugging me and I have a medal around my neck. Yes, I’ve made it . I smile. This is an experience what I will never forget!
I couldn’t stop telling everyone that I am accepted for the race and immediately my dad who’s a runner made me a run-schedule. But the really big support for the whole time were my friends. Even if they had to work too and everyone has a different schedule they were my personal trainers. Whether with the bike next to me or also running there was always someone with my on the roads and beaches of the Hamptons. Thanks to Ane, Nina, Paulien, Catrin and Eva.
After a short night with two of my support girls in a hotel in Chinatown I woke up with a stomachache. I was so nervous, anxious and thinking that I couldn’t run the whole 13.1 miles. But my friends were all the time with me. They dropped me off in Central Park where the race started. The whole Central Park was crowed, 22 000 runners and their supporters.
The race started at 7:30 am and I waited in my running group for 40 minutes to cross the start line. These 40 minutes felt like 2 hours! Then I was running in Central Park for like 7 miles and it was amazing! Everywhere people along the edge smiling at your face. I was just running. My friends were waiting for me at mile 6 and I got new motivation after I saw them. The next big “stop” of the race was Times Square and then to the west side and all the way down to Ground Zero.
The finish was Water Street at Maiden Lane. And again were my friends waiting for me. The smile in my face was getting more broadly when I saw the finish line. I crossed the finish line in 2 hours 37 minutes 49 seconds. I am so proud of myself and I’ll never forget that day in my life!
On Sunday, February 19 Au Pair in America Long Island Clusters enjoyed the basketball show by the World Famous Harlem Globetrotter. 
The Au Pairs were surprised that the Globetrotters were so funny as well as so athletic! The mascot, “Big G or Globie” was quite a dancer! 
