For our first day of celebrating Read Across America we decorated canvas bags. Summer is right around the corner (we hope) and that means we will be taking a lot of trips to the library. We love to ride our bikes to the library and these bags will be perfect to hold our books.

I wanted to do keep this project simple so that all of the girls could participate and I don’t really sew. . .

I headed to Hobby Lobby last weekend to find my supplies.

  • Canvas Bags
  • Iron-On Printer Paper
  • Heat Bond
  • Ribbon
  • Fabric Markers
  • Fabric

We got really creative with our circle templates. Glasses, ribbon containers, even a applesauce jar were used to cut out different sizes of circles.

We printed out everyone’s initial for the front of their bag onto Iron On Transfer paper. The girls set all of the pieces in place and then I did all of the ironing.

Here is the finished product. This was a lot of fun for all of us. Now the snow just needs to go away.

Today we celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Birthday. I was going to serve the girls Green Eggs and Ham for Breakfast, but they thought that was pushing it. The girls celebrate at school today and then we will continue the celebration at home.

Happy Read Across America Day!

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