July 5-7

With all the holidaying over we were still home alone. The first Saturday of the month but no driver, we did not make Home Depot for the monthly craft. In exchange we had a large amount of quiet…Just the two girls and myself is so very very different. We started our morning with dry cereal and cartoons in the livingroom. A nice slow start to a whole day of homebody fun.

After breakfast we moved the fun outside to the pool Daddy had hung around long enough the day before to blow up. It is HUGE with just two little girls in it.

We had treats in the sunshine and played babies and mommies.

With a quick lunch indoors…

And then back out to make pain fireworks. I bought black poster paper specifically for this activity. This is a yearly craft for us. Put liquid paint on the paper, place a plastic lid on top and smack it with a hammer. The impact makes the amazing fireworks you see the girls making!

They also did some personal creating

After all that fun it was time for tv and napping.

Then back out into the yard.

A trend that continued into Sunday where we had our play time and then drained the pool. Of course we watched it go all the way down the drive and then down the street to the flood drain.

We took total advantage of our girls only time while the boys were out on their camping/Gabbi’s birthday party.

Of course with everyone coming home the 7th was a write off… well… except for sewing! Of course now to post and move onto the July learning!! 

June 29 (continued)-30

We had Sean at home waiting for us as well as a mostly not built playset to build so we left Gabriella’s party not long after cake. With lots of sun left in the day we had Ken out there hard at work. And of course when Daddy is outside where else would the kids be???

With all this rain in the evening the sidewalk is an always clear slate for creativity.

Now on Sunday I decided to go with crafting, crafting and more crafting… first our paint and paper fireworks. This is one we did years ago… you take paints (liquid), put some drops close together on a piece of paper (poster paper is best) and put a plastic lid on top… now the fun part – take a hammer or mallet and SMACK IT!!! Watch it though, if you hit hard enough there is a little splash! I think we got some rather amazing fireworks out of the project!

Supplies

Then it was time for lunch…

And onto our next craft… paper making! We followed Kiss the Groom’s instructions HERE. We used pink tissue paper for our first batch and wow did it go pink! Then grass on the second. We need to blend the grass solo first. All in all, our first attempts are rather cool. We are going to keep making different kinds, the boys want to make some good enough that they could be put up on Etsy to see if anyone would buy some! I figure why not.

Our pulpy mixture

With homemade frame

Of course the girls had to check out the playset progress.

AND we found a toad in the backyard! Rather cool!

Critters, playsets… crafting! We did good!!!

Look who snuck out after her bath!