They are all gathered around checking out the way water in a cup makes the quarter at the bottom seem to rise up through the water.
Summer has officially started for us--today we attended our first library fun day for this year! Today we watched the librarian do some science experiments, and then the kids made their own.
They are all gathered around checking out the way water in a cup makes the quarter at the bottom seem to rise up through the water.
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We didn't actually paint with real worms. It was al dante spaghetti. But it felt like worms. I think the cup on the left started out as all green, but after multiple kids using blue and pink and orange then reaching into the green kinda mixes the colors!
Today was "family fun night" at one library. One of the guys brought his ukelele and sung bug songs for the kids. Then they made bugs out of plastic wear and pipe cleaners.
Before the kids could search for treasures, they had to make a chest! EJ is putting his stickers on, then we folded it up. THEN he decided to color it all brown, like a real treasure chest:
I have found out that I love to do tie dye. It's so much fun, not knowing exactly what the result will look like. Last week, the downtown library had a teen activity--tie dying t-shirts. I managed to convince the lady in charge that I wasn't going to abandon my 7 year old, so she let us come too. (I have realized this summer that most parents view the library activities as 30 minutes to an hour of free babysitting time. I don't.)
Instead of paint, we used rubber bands and sharpies. It was cool. First of all, the flower EJ got from the library was a petunia. The lady at the library kept calling them peonies, but I looked it up on the internet, and they were really petunias. EJ chose a purple one, so for the first week or so at home, his flower looked like this:
My friend told me about Lowe's' Build n Grow program, so I signed EJ up for it. This past Sunday, the kids built the Pizza Planet car from Toy Story. Since it was a building thing, I stayed home to read/nap and Daddy took EJ.
Ya' gotta love the "no pain, no gain" expression! Okay, I know I said the story of the peonies would be next, but I decided to wait until after the wheelbarrow was painted, and I still haven't taken a picture of the actual peony, which I'm not entirely certain is a peony. So, that will have to wait. In the mean time, EJ made two puppets!
This is the library man, explaining the kinds of puppets the kids could make. There was the glove kind, where you move the mouth with your thumb, and the gingerbread kind, where your thumb and pinky are the hands. Of course, EJ wanted to do one of both. Before another week of library fun commences, I should really catch y'all up on what I didn't tell you about yet. Just two things, really. The first being, boa constrictors.
This summer the theme of the library's reading program is "Dig into reading". Ironically, many of the activities have to do with pirates, and one library had a pirate party. We had to register, and it was for 1-3 graders. Even then, there were way more kids there than I was comfortable with. The line to get name tags wrapped around the hallway and through the children's department. (They had name tags to make sure non-registered kids didn't crash the party.) It moved fairly quickly, and after getting name tags, the kids had to "walk to plank" into the party room. Once in the room we formed another line to get pirate gear--mustache, eye patch, bandana, and hat. EJ took his sword and got lots of oohs and ahhs from the other kids. Then each kid got his picture taken with pirate props:
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