Happy birthday, Lisa, we had fun picking strawberries with you!
Posted in Anna, Carolyn, Photography, Summer Fun
Using the template here, we made some sunshines to hang in our windows. I had pre-cut the circles and triangles out of heavy black construction paper. While I set up the templates on contact paper, I had the girls cut up the yellow and orange paper…unfortunately, Anna’s safety scissors don’t seem to cut things that [...]
Posted in Summer Fun | Tagged Sunshine
We made some sun prints using sun-sensitive paper and random objects around the house: Lots of fun, and they worked well despite it being a little overcast!
Posted in Summer Fun | Tagged Sunshine
Question: What happens when you don’t wear sunblock in the pool? Experiment: Coat sun-sensitive beads in sunblock, put some in water and some without water in the sun. Also put un-coated beads in water and without to see which change fastest. Observations: The beads all changed color very quickly. The slowest to change were the [...]
Posted in Summer Fun | Tagged Sunshine
Today wasn’t quite so hands on for the girls, unfortunately. I bought a solar panel kit on sale, despite the mixed reviews, figuring if it didn’t work well we could still find something fun to do with the bits. The box says 8+, but the pieces are *tiny*. It’s hard to wire things up, so [...]
Posted in Summer Fun | Tagged Sunshine
We’re back in the summer routine, and doing weekly themes like last year. This week’s theme is “Hello, Summer Sunshine!” and we’ll be doing all sorts of fun, sun-themed projects. This morning we headed outside to make some Chalk People: Anna thought it was hilarious that she was about the same size as my chalk [...]
Posted in Summer Fun | Tagged Sunshine
We had a World Wide Knit in Public Day event today for the shop, and knit in the park. It was so very much fun!
Posted in Knitting, Shop Talk, Summer Fun
I saved these until after the dance recital, just to avoid any last minute crutches!
Posted in Carolyn, Summer Fun
Step 1: Get out a sprinkler. Step 2: Turn it on just as the bus is coming down the street. Step 3: Get the camera ready. (Turns out both girls wanted to run through the sprinkler in swim suits, so we paused for a quick change. But seriously, the giggling…it was out of control!)
Posted in Anna, Carolyn, Summer Fun
