August 18, 2010

Rainy day? Perhaps you would like a little rainy day song by Kate, poem by Grace and... mobile, courtesy of Suki?


Kate loves her perch.

The animals riding animals, the beads mixed with beads, and the girls who love them.

Then it was on to stage two of our paperweight project. Yesterday evening we collected and washed our rocks. If you want very happy children, I suggest giving them each a tub of soapy water and encouraging them to clean something, it need not be a rock.

Stage two involved ripping or cutting paper to apply to the rocks.

Mighty determined.

We mixed water and glue, painted our rocks, and then it was time to arrange the paper.

Placing it carefully.

This is definitely the sort of craft it's best to do while David's away. It got mighty sticky at certain points of this craft, as you'd imagine. I have no idea why Kate wandered off for part of this project, we helped her finish hers up. The last step was to cover all of the paper with the same watered down glue.

Before drying...

After drying. Grace made hers as a gift for her dear friend Anu, she's been very steadfast in her intentions. I don't think Suki and Kate have any ideas about parting with theirs.

Kate gives her penguin a ride.

Grace's next project was to create this mermaid and give her a glittery red mouth.

She was so proud of herself.

Carefully squeezing out the glitter glue.

I knew better than to linger with Grace when I heard Suki and Kate declaring their love for a game of Splasha Splasha Splasha.

The drawing trio.

Then we baked up some cookies. Kate took a turn at scooping...

...and then Suki scooped some.

Grace then joined us for some scooping fun.

What a sweet, fun, rainy morning.