Books, baking, and experiments

Monday's are my cleaning days, so we tend to stay home on these days and do whatever I can drum up.

I was thrilled when my friend, Deanne, read a book to our coop's nursery group. Its called Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley. She first introduced the book, showed them a felt monster the kids could create, and then they could make their own with pre-cut construction paper.

I loved her idea and borrowed it for my boys. Come on boys and monsters--its sure to be a hit.

Here is Braedon's creation:

Here is Sebastian's:

Do you see the resemblance? Me neither but they certainly loved the idea and wanted to post their creations on our art wall (really the sliding glass door).

Where is Jillian's you ask? Well she did not complete hers at coop and did not complete hers here either. Instead she decided to crumple up her pieces.

In between dishes, lunch, cleaning the bathroom, and laundry; next on the list was baking chocolate pumpkin bread.  I always think my kids will join in and be thrilled to help. I get them to help with the 1st few ingredients and then they ditch me. Of course then they sit there and whine, "Is it done yet?"

Sometime last year I had found the Mind Blowing Experiments for kids.  I thought this would be an easy way to introduce science into our days. All of the materials are there and when the kids give me more than 2 seconds to read the directions, I can create something cool.

Today was a very simple experiment about color. Each child had a test tube with a color in it. We then held it up to the light because the sun was not present today. Of course when you put the yellow to blue: green, yellow to red: orange and blue to red: purple. They all had a good time holding on to their tubes and I was glad that I could incorporate Jillian.

After the laundry was completed, I read the kids 1001 Things to Spot in the Sea to get them excited about our trip to the Aquarium tomorrow.