O(6) was excited to make glow stick Olympic rings!
After we played ring toss, we took a glow stick walk on the beach to find ghost crabs!
The idea to play glow stick ring toss came from this blog via Pinterest.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Glow Stick Ring Toss
We had SO much fun playing glow stick ring toss when we were vacationing at the beach. We had glow stick night, and I handed out several packs of glow sticks to the girls. They had glow stick bracelets, necklaces, and glasses...SO much fun! To play ring toss, I stuck one of the glow sticks in between 2 boards in the deck, and then we threw (or tried to) the necklaces onto the stick. This was even more fun than I anticipated!
O(6) was excited to make glow stick Olympic rings!
After we played ring toss, we took a glow stick walk on the beach to find ghost crabs!
The idea to play glow stick ring toss came from this blog via Pinterest.
O(6) was excited to make glow stick Olympic rings!
After we played ring toss, we took a glow stick walk on the beach to find ghost crabs!
The idea to play glow stick ring toss came from this blog via Pinterest.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Perfect Little Popsicles
The girls have really loved popsicles this summer, but I don't love all of the sugar and artificial colors in the store bought popsicles. So, I was excited to find ring pop popsicle molds on Amazon!
The girls LOVE these popsicles, and I love them, too, since I make them with orange juice to make them a healthy treat!
These small popsicles are the perfect size for our girls, and they love to have them as after breakfast and lunch treats!
The girls LOVE these popsicles, and I love them, too, since I make them with orange juice to make them a healthy treat!
These small popsicles are the perfect size for our girls, and they love to have them as after breakfast and lunch treats!
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Absorption Color Wheel
When I saw this super fun and simple science experiment via Pinterest, I thought it would be perfect for our upcoming beach vacation (gotta fit a little bit of school in each week :), and it was! I decided to expand on it a little to make a color wheel.
To do this experiment, you need 6 clear glasses, water, 6 plain white paper towels, and food coloring (red, blue, and yellow). We filled every other glass about 2/3 of the way full with water (a total of 3 glasses). The girls took turns putting food coloring in each glass with water. So, we had one glass with blue water, one glass with yellow water, and one glass with red water.
Between each of these glasses was an empty glass, and the 6 glasses formed a circle. We rolled the paper towels and connected the glasses with the paper towels (this may not make sense, but it makes sense if you look at the picture).
Then we watched and waited. After a few minutes, we could see the water beginning to slowly travel up the paper towels. We kept watching...
We left and came back later to check on the progress.
We went into town for snow cones and to play at the playground and came back to find this!
The colors had traveled all the way up the paper towels and were beginning to mix! We were all VERY excited!
When we woke up the next morning, this is what we saw. The colors were mixing within the glasses, but they were very dark and the colors on the paper towels hadn't really mixed.
So, we kept watching, and by the end of the day we had this!
By the next morning, the paper towels had soaked up all the water and were beginning to dry out.
Throughout this process, we discussed the "why" of it...capillary action and the mixing of primary colors to form secondary colors. We were very excited by how well this project turned out, and we saved our colorful and beautiful paper towels for a future art project.
To do this experiment, you need 6 clear glasses, water, 6 plain white paper towels, and food coloring (red, blue, and yellow). We filled every other glass about 2/3 of the way full with water (a total of 3 glasses). The girls took turns putting food coloring in each glass with water. So, we had one glass with blue water, one glass with yellow water, and one glass with red water.
Between each of these glasses was an empty glass, and the 6 glasses formed a circle. We rolled the paper towels and connected the glasses with the paper towels (this may not make sense, but it makes sense if you look at the picture).
Then we watched and waited. After a few minutes, we could see the water beginning to slowly travel up the paper towels. We kept watching...
We left and came back later to check on the progress.
We went into town for snow cones and to play at the playground and came back to find this!
The colors had traveled all the way up the paper towels and were beginning to mix! We were all VERY excited!
When we woke up the next morning, this is what we saw. The colors were mixing within the glasses, but they were very dark and the colors on the paper towels hadn't really mixed.
So, we kept watching, and by the end of the day we had this!
By the next morning, the paper towels had soaked up all the water and were beginning to dry out.
Throughout this process, we discussed the "why" of it...capillary action and the mixing of primary colors to form secondary colors. We were very excited by how well this project turned out, and we saved our colorful and beautiful paper towels for a future art project.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
All Around the World Sticker Book
I was asked to choose and review an item from Timberdoodle, and I chose the All Around the World Sticker book!
This sticker book is perfect to take on vacations and road trips, and it has already traveled through 4 different states and 2 different vacations with us!
The girls were especially excited about the desert habitat since we have been studying Egypt. Every time E(2) saw a body of water she insisted "That's the Nile River!" (She's a little obsessed with Egypt right now).
Here is a description of the book from Timberdoodle...
"The 400 quirky animal stickers will make those scenes pop and will spark curiosity about the harmony between the wildlife and the environments in which they thrive. On the reverse side of the panoramas are large outline pictures of animals to complete and color. The only words in the entire All Around the World book are the names of these 24 animals in fanciful script."
We've had fun creating sticker stories from this book. After the girls have placed the stickers where they want them, I'll tell a story based on the scene. I couldn't get them to tell any stories, but they LOVED for me to tell them stories.
The 8 large fold out scenes include the Amazon Rainforest, the tropical sea, the Sahara Desert, the Australian Outback, the Arctic, the countryside, the African savannah, and the North American forest. The stickers are a little thin and a few of them tore, but the girls didn't seem bothered by this at all. Overall, this is a great product, and both of my girls (ages 2 and 6) LOVE it!
This product was sent to me free of charge for a review. I was not paid for the review and it reflects my honest opinions.
This sticker book is perfect to take on vacations and road trips, and it has already traveled through 4 different states and 2 different vacations with us!
The girls were especially excited about the desert habitat since we have been studying Egypt. Every time E(2) saw a body of water she insisted "That's the Nile River!" (She's a little obsessed with Egypt right now).
Here is a description of the book from Timberdoodle...
"The 400 quirky animal stickers will make those scenes pop and will spark curiosity about the harmony between the wildlife and the environments in which they thrive. On the reverse side of the panoramas are large outline pictures of animals to complete and color. The only words in the entire All Around the World book are the names of these 24 animals in fanciful script."
We've had fun creating sticker stories from this book. After the girls have placed the stickers where they want them, I'll tell a story based on the scene. I couldn't get them to tell any stories, but they LOVED for me to tell them stories.
The 8 large fold out scenes include the Amazon Rainforest, the tropical sea, the Sahara Desert, the Australian Outback, the Arctic, the countryside, the African savannah, and the North American forest. The stickers are a little thin and a few of them tore, but the girls didn't seem bothered by this at all. Overall, this is a great product, and both of my girls (ages 2 and 6) LOVE it!
This product was sent to me free of charge for a review. I was not paid for the review and it reflects my honest opinions.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Making Pizza
Since one of O(6)'s leveled readers is titled Making Pizza (Reading A to Z), we decided to make pizza!
It was deeeelicious!
Since it was pizza night, I decided that it should be movie night as well! We watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe since we finished reading the book about a week ago. The girls loved the movie, but I was cringing at some of the scary and violent parts. I tried to cover their eyes during some of the battle scenes, but they were not interested in that at all. E(2) said "I like the sary (scary) parts!" O(6) was really scared until she saw Aslan, and then she said she wasn't scared anymore.
We are looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the Narnia series...I was not surprised by how much O loved this book, but I was surprised by how much 2 year old E enjoyed it!
It was deeeelicious!
Since it was pizza night, I decided that it should be movie night as well! We watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe since we finished reading the book about a week ago. The girls loved the movie, but I was cringing at some of the scary and violent parts. I tried to cover their eyes during some of the battle scenes, but they were not interested in that at all. E(2) said "I like the sary (scary) parts!" O(6) was really scared until she saw Aslan, and then she said she wasn't scared anymore.
We are looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the Narnia series...I was not surprised by how much O loved this book, but I was surprised by how much 2 year old E enjoyed it!
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Fun on a Rainy Day!
It rained ALL day one day last week, and we all wanted to be outside so badly. I let the girls run around in the rain (it wasn't thundering or lightening) a little bit, but that didn't last long. So, we headed to the (empty) garage to ride scooters and the plasma car. We ALL love the plasma car!
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Friday, August 10, 2012
O's Birthday Ring
For some reason, I ALWAYS (at least for the past couple of years) forget the birthday ring! This year we set up O's birthday ring a week late. This was fine and kind of nice since it was a little extra celebration after all the birthday hype died down.
Since we didn't have a #6 candle, O decided to use a #4 and 2 extra candles to make 6 :) Elliott brought home donuts for the girls (a very rare treat), and he put them in the center of the birthday ring while we sang to O.
Fun times!
Since we didn't have a #6 candle, O decided to use a #4 and 2 extra candles to make 6 :) Elliott brought home donuts for the girls (a very rare treat), and he put them in the center of the birthday ring while we sang to O.
Fun times!
Homemade Lava Lamps
I've had making homemade lava lamps with the girls on my to-do list for almost a year, and we finally did it this week! We had SO much fun, and this is definitely an activity that we'll do again soon.
The idea came from this blog via Pinterest. To make a homemade lava lamp, you need cooking oil, water, food coloring, alka seltzer, and a bottle (we used glass Snapple bottles).
First, we filled 2 bottles (1 for each girl) 3/4 full with cooking oil.
Then, we added the water until the bottle was close to full.
The girls chose their colors and added in 10 drops of food coloring.
We watched the food coloring rain down through the oil and into the water.
Then came the really fun part! I gave each girl an alka seltzer tablet, which they broke into 4 pieces. They put one piece in the bottle at a time. It was SO much fun to watch the bubbles go crazy in the bottle!
The girls shook their bottles up, and they were pretty excited by the thousands of tiny bubbles.
They wanted to keep adding alka seltzer, and they ended up putting 3 tablets into each bottle.
They added in different colors into their bottles to see what would happen. O(6) said "This is awesome!"
E(2) LOVES her lava lamp and wanted to carry it with her everywhere. They are looking forward to adding more alka seltzer to their bottles when we get home from vacation :)
The idea came from this blog via Pinterest. To make a homemade lava lamp, you need cooking oil, water, food coloring, alka seltzer, and a bottle (we used glass Snapple bottles).
First, we filled 2 bottles (1 for each girl) 3/4 full with cooking oil.
Then, we added the water until the bottle was close to full.
The girls chose their colors and added in 10 drops of food coloring.
We watched the food coloring rain down through the oil and into the water.
Then came the really fun part! I gave each girl an alka seltzer tablet, which they broke into 4 pieces. They put one piece in the bottle at a time. It was SO much fun to watch the bubbles go crazy in the bottle!
The girls shook their bottles up, and they were pretty excited by the thousands of tiny bubbles.
They wanted to keep adding alka seltzer, and they ended up putting 3 tablets into each bottle.
They added in different colors into their bottles to see what would happen. O(6) said "This is awesome!"
E(2) LOVES her lava lamp and wanted to carry it with her everywhere. They are looking forward to adding more alka seltzer to their bottles when we get home from vacation :)
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