Daily Activities

I thought I'd post about a few of our Daily Activities.

Today we made ice cream in a bag (click that for details). It's easy...and it actually had a pretty good flavor+consistency! Next time I will be prepared for some add ins (M&M's, Oreos....) It would be a fun summer party activity. Just be prepared to do most of the bag shaking yourself...and for it to take longer than 5 minutes! :) I read that you can also use regular table salt...but we used rock salt.

Yesterday we did noodle art. I put an assortment of noodles on a plate (ziti, spaghetti, rotini, bowtie, fiori) and than I gave the kids another paper plate and they had fun making different faces. When they were done playing around they hot glued the noodles down. I was going to have them paint them when they were done...but they had enough fun without having to get paint involved! Here's a little sample of the kids creativity!

What else have we done? We go to the library every Wednesday. We have racked up a couple of fines due to a page tearing baby....but it's worth it to get out of the house. We also go with a topic (America, plants, food,...) and they look for books on that topic and we get a movie or two on the topic. I totally don't care if they get something on the topic or not...but it does make it seem a little more educational doesn't it? ha!

We've also been on bug hunts, made play dough, went swimming in our Bishops pool, colored patriotic pictures to send to grandparents and did some good ol' fashion running through the sprinklers! We have lots of other things planned...hopefully we will get to do them all...but sometimes life gets in the way...and that's okay! (frustrating...but okay!)