Earth Day

Earth day landed on a Wednesday this year so I had everyone home.  I had a few fun ideas planned, but first had to get my daily tasks done.  Once I had the house semi squared away, we got started.I gave the kiddos a Q tip earth and a blob of blue and green paint.  Their paintings were very beautiful and they somewhat resembled Mother Earth, I am going to say Q tip painting for our ages and patience levels was a bust.   Thomas quickly decided that dotting took a lot of time and a skilled hand, he was onto the fact that I had him working on his fine motor skills.  Elin decided from the beginning that a dot would just not work and she was happily gobbling paint on her circle.  Oh well, good in theory guess we will have to try again at a different ages and attention levels!

After cleaning up we headed out for our scavenger hunt.  This was an awesome Pinterest find that you can find here.  I ended up printing off 2 of each and then laminating them.  Both the kids love writing with permanent markers, so we meet in the middle with dry erase markers.  This was a hit and the kiddos had so much fun.  We ended up walking around the neighborhood for about 45 minutes before we stopped for some playtime at the park.  Some of the best days are days where the time and schedule leads itself…this was one of them!   With 3 tired kiddos and a tired giant one, we headed back home for a late lunch and naps.