Now that is quite a combo isn’t it? That however, has been the last week or so. We finished it all off with Katrine’s final project of the year which was due today. It was the food chain and I don’t think that I have seen her so thrilled to simply be done in a while. This year she has enjoyed many more of the projects but her favourite part of this particular one was finishing it.
I was given some mehndi recently so decided to take advantage of it and decorate my children. The designs are nothing fancy. In fact, on one of Elspeth’s feet it clearly states the name of her favourite cartoon but hey, she is thrilled. Katrine of course, opted for more of a skating centered decoration while I tried for pretty. If you look closely, you can see that Elspeth was so excited about me “drawing on her” that she even wrote about it in her homework journal.
Elspeth wrote, “I have mehndi. It is cool.”
Last month I went searching for fun things to do during prep with one of the classes at my school. I came up with a number of great ideas along the way for both school and home. So far we have tried frozen banana slices (which only I enjoy), frozen yogurt dots ( a hit) and corn starch & water “chalk” paint. This weekend we tried another new idea from (http://www.housingaforest.com/rainbow-bubble-snakes). It worked!!! The girls had a blast. Not only did it actually blow long “snakes” but they kept holding toghther once they fell off the blower. I think that our next project will be to give the pop bottle sprinkler a go!
We finished up the weekend with strawberry picking. Of course this meant that there is strawberries and cream for dessert as well as strawberries and chocolate. It also meant hot fun full of giggles and smiles. Both of the girls enjoy getting out and picking the berries; not to mention taste testing as they went. I like that they get a sense of the amount of work behind harvesting the food that we eat. Unfortuanetly the raspberries were not yet ready so we may need to go back.
Our haul.
If you look closely, you can see the ring of red around Elspeth’s mouth.