A Hike, Lunch & Craft @ Sakatah State Park

 This was a couple weeks ago, when it was probably going to be our last 80 degree day of the day. When we started out it was still in the 60's, so they were dressed in long sleeves. I think it got to 80 after we had to return home to our 1st graders getting home.

 Running down the hill

 The boys really wanted to go IN the lake, but it just wasn't looking healthy enough unfortunately

 Since we wouldn't let them go in the water with their feet, we let them play in the water fountain. They thought that was a ton of fun!

 And throw a bunch of rocks from the shore in to the lake, that was a lot of fun too. Had to be creative with how we could allow them to enjoy the lake.

 My Lil Tree Hugger!

Here is the craft that Henry made. His friend Gavin made one too. You will be able to read more about this next week in my post on Save Green Being Green. It will be on there on Thursday.

Snowflake Crafts

Some of you might remember the paint snowflake from when I did it with sister. He had fun with these projects, but he doesn't have quite the sustained interest as his sister does. But we did get them finished, I just had to approach the white salt snowflakes from a different angle. Rather than spinkling salt on, he was more interested in it if he poured it all on and messged it around with his hands, then pour off & repeat. Just another reminder to me how much the children are different in their learning styles, personality & interests.

Shaving Cream Bath Paints

This is something super easy to do and super fun. You just mix food coloring in shaving cream. I knew it was going to be messy and since it was too cold outside to take this activity, I decided an early bath time was in order. It was used as both finger paints and brush paints on both the tub, the tub wall, and their bodies. Easy clean up when it's in the tub!

Christmas Crafts

Henry got to participate in one of the crafts, the fingerprint lightbulbs. I drew the strand and helped him with making his fingerprints. His is the top one.