March 2012

We had a St Patrick's day themed sibshop for the month of March.
We made shamrock nametages.
We wrote about our likes and dislikes on our Shamrocks.
We played Irish Hot Potato and shared our likes and dislikes with others in the group.
We found out lots of things we have in common with our sibshop friends. For example: how many of us love PIZZA!


We played pictionary. We have a lot of really good artists in our group.


We shared our special dreams that we have for ourselves and for our siblings with disabilities.

We helped celebrate McKensie's birthday with a very cool Dragon Cake. Thanks McKensie for sharing with all of us. Happy Birthday this month. And thanks to all of you that joined us this month. We can't wait for the weather to get warmer in the months to come so we can spend more time outside and participating in more fun activities. See you next month.

February 2012

Happy Valentines to all of our sibshoppers and their families. We made some Valentines for our Sibs and decorated some cookies to eat and share with our sibs as well.
The boys got together and stayed together the entire time. NO GIRLS Allowed on the the couch!
We helped Aunt Blabby answer some of the questions about having a sibling with a disability and the pressure that it can cause our sibs.
Everyone put in some helpful advice and really did a good job answering these questions.



Can someone with a disability be an artist? YES! We all know someone who has overcome lots of odds and done some amazing things.
We put our Sibshop artists to the test with "Sightless Structure."


The artists and clay were blindfolded. Another person acted as the structure that the artist was going to imitate with their "ball of clay."
The artists did a great job imitating the structures with out any vision.

We played several other activities that we don't have pictures of but overall our sibshoppers had a great time and look forward to what next month has to bring.

January 2012

A new year of Sibshops has begun! We started it with celebrating the Chinese New Year!
We made dragon masks, but skipped the parade.



Chinese take-out a favorite amongst this group of kids.
A few tried their hand at Chopsticks,... and usually went back to forks and spoons.
We made "good-luck fish" with wishes for the new year on back.
We made wishes for ourselves and wishes for our siblings. We shared our wishes in groups after we were done.
Then on with the games.

Ker-plunk was a crowd favorite.
Uno (totally chinese)

And chinese checkers. We had a chopstick relay and played a few other games. It was a lot of fun and overall I think we really caught the chinese new year spirit. Thank you to all the volunteers and sibshoppers that showed up. We look forward to another great year.

November 2011 (More to come!)

We had a lot of fun this month making our very own Sibshop Movie. There is so much great footage and we will be posting clips of it soon on this blog. Also we will make a copy of the whole movie put together for each family. Thanks to everyone who participated. And a big THANK YOU and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to George who we celebrated with for turning 11 on 11/11/11!
Just a reminder: There is no sibshop for the month of December but we will reconvene with more fun and new activities starting Saturday, January 14th.

October 2011

This month was our Parent/Sibling Sibshop. All of the parents were such good sports and participated along side their siblings with all of the activities.
We made paper bag gargoyles for our trickle-in activities.

Some got really creative. We saw one-eyed, two eyed, and some nose-eyed gargoyles in the bunch. Each turned out so unique like all of our sibshoppers that come each month.

Parents and Sibs participated in group juggling.

It got a little bit more confusing as more and more balls were added to the mix.

Our useless machines turned out to be... well... quite useless...but fun!

Last month we started a sib-tree. This month our sib tree grew more full with added hands and our parents nice comments about each of their sibs.

"Do you love your neighbor?" was probably the favorite activity of the day.

Parents and siblings were running, laughing, and scrambling to find an empty seat.

We made fruit and candy Kabobs for desert.

Some included lots of fruit...

...others were a little more heavy on the candy side.

A couple of months ago, we made a wish box and filled it with our personal wishes for ourselves and for our families.

We read some of those and added more wishes to the box.

Perhaps one day those wishes will come true.

We sure appreciate all of our parents that participated this month. We had such a good time. We can't wait to see your sibshoppers next month. We will be making some short videos similar to the ones we have watched in the past. So come with smiles and ready to have a good time.