They may have gotten rid of my calling at church as the activities leader, but I still have an outlet for my creativity!  This month I took over hosting Kalani’s homeschool book club at our home.  We have 2 weeks to read a book and then the family that chose the book moderates the meeting.  We chose Lewis Carroll’s book, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Disney did a pretty good job with their movie, “Alice in Wonderland,” but of course they left some things out and added others.  As a homeschool group of friends, we had a good time discussing the book and playing games.

I found some great decoration ideas at one pretty thing.  And since we got a couple of packages from amazon I had cardboard and brown paper on hand.  So, this door decoration was created.

Doorway into Wonderland

I made some big playing cards out of cardboard and taped questions to the back for the kids to answer.  For games, the kids made up some silly nonsense advice and then their own version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.  One of Kalani’s nonsense advice, “If you are a  leopard, don’t eat a leprechaun.” And someone’s Twinkle Twinkle poem:  “Twinkle Twinkle little squirrel, Wear a tutu and you twirl.  Up abouve the tree so high, like a chipmunk in the sky.  Twinkle Twinkle little squirrel, wear a tutu and you twirl.”

I had the kids color roses that were printed on white paper red.  And then a mom stood up and acted like the Queen saying, “who’s been painting my roses red…OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!”  Our last two games were trying to hit a tennis ball with an umbrella through a homemade croquet hole.  And then all the kids stood in a circle and I sprayed them with a water bottle and they had to run around until they were dry.  When asked who won…they all won, so they got to get a water bottle that said “DRINK ME” and a cookie that said “EAT ME.”  I may have had more fun planning book club than the kids!