Easter Egg Hunt Lunch

I was excited to see this simple and fun Easter egg lunch hunt on Pinterest, and I knew my girls would love it! First, I filled 18 eggs with healthy lunch goodies...walnuts, dried cherries and cranberries, baby carrots, freeze dried strawberries, pretzels, orange segments, cheese crackers, and pb & j roll-ups. Then, I hid the eggs in the den and kitchen while the girls closed their eyes (they peeked!). There's an egg...hidden in the flower arranging sensory bin! The girls had a great time finding the eggs! There's one! They put them in the containers as they found them, and we counted to make sure we had them all. I helped them find the last one...I had no idea where it was, but we eventually found it :) We took all of the eggs out to our table on our screened porch and divided them between the girls. They enjoyed opening them to find their yummy lunch! O(5) said she wants an Easter egg hunt lunch EVERY day until Easter!

Goop Fun!

The girls and I LOVE to make and play with goop! (Seriously, I enjoy this as much as they do!) We usually mix equal parts cornstarch and water, but this time we mixed about 5 cups of cornstarch and about 3 and a half cups of water, and it was much better. Sometimes we leave the goop just as it is, and sometimes we turn it into a color mixing experiment. This time we put yellow food coloring on one side and blue on the other side, and slowly mixed them together. This is definitely an activity that is best done by the lake (or in a bathtub or near a water hose...). We all got pretty messy. After playing with the goop by itself for a while, the girls decided to start mixing it with sand. They filled up buckets and got to work. We've spent our last 2 Fridays playing with goop on our beach, so this may be a new Friday afternoon tradition! Although, we also have plans to play with a vat of shaving cream by the beach and make volcanoes on the beach. We really love our teeny, tiny beach during the Spring and Summer!

Little Chick Deviled Eggs

We LOVE deviled eggs, and our girls love to help make them. So, my mom was excited to find the idea for these super cute chick deviled eggs via Pinterest. She and E(2) had fun making them, and we all enjoyed eating them!

A Peace Basket Addition

I bought this liquid timer to add to our peace basket, but it hasn't made it there yet. Both of the girls LOVE watching the timer...it is so relaxing. I love to watch it, too, and I'm thinking about taking it with me to the hospital when Elliott has his surgery. I'm sure I'll need a little peace!

Transferring Water with a Sponge

E(2) had fun transferring water from one side of the this container to the other using a sponge. This is an activity that I did with O about 3 years ago, but hadn't pulled it out of storage for E(2) until the past few weeks. After she transferred the water from one side to the other a few times, she was ready to wash the cabinet doors with a sponge. Fun times!

Learning about South Africa

The girls and I had fun learning about South Africa during February.  We didn't do as many activities as I planned, but we still had fun and learned a lot.

We started off our studies by coloring the South African flag...

and pictures of African children (both coloring sheets are from Activity Village). We found Africa on our large wall map and put the appropriate animals on the continent. We read lots of books about Africa. and we watched videos of children in Africa on Discovery Streaming.