****Make tin can lanterns

 Another summer bucket list item was to make tin can lanterns.  From this idea on Pinterest...

Saved some cans from the pantry, washed and spray painted them.  Filled them with water and froze them then used a hammer and nail to punch a design on it.  If you don't put ice in them they will just dent when you try to put your design in.  You make your design and then just melt the ice, you will have to hammer the bottom back flat again a little because of the ice it bows a little.  The only thing we didn't get done was add the handles but we will add them later.  This is mom's attempt at Mike from Monster. Inc. for Hudson's lantern....

 Left to right is Emma's owl, Avery's tulip and Hunter's block head man...

 I tried to make a tree on mine and Deke made a star.  The kids had fun making them and we used them out on the back porch at Grandma and Grandpa Burch's on the fourth of July.  We will definitely be making these again to use in the fall for nighttime picnics at the park.