Iveyrock

I came across this idea on a blog almost a year ago, and have been meaning to try it ever since.

Ian discovered pretty quickly that he could make music with his stirring stick . He was particularly excited because he was making music “just like the video“.

Micah didn’t get to help as much with this one. He did get a plastic jar of water, which he promptly dumped all over himself. So he got to ride in the swing while the bigger kids worked.

When we do it again, I would use less food coloring. It was so dark that it didn’t really work to blend colors very well – the red over powered the yellow when Ian tried to make orange, and the blue turned everything very dark. But the kids had a good time.

Greens! I have only recently started cooking them (thanks to my Aunt Brenda), and it makes me so very happy, every time.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day…

My kiddos, hard at work

I’m not sure what Micah’s project represents, but I love the serious look on his face.

Ian’s “Serious Book About the Circus”. He worked very intently on this. He was very clear that it is a serious book, not a story. He dictated the text to me, including “Fish jumping out of fish tanks, touching the ceiling, and diving back down,” and “People painting lion’s faces, to make lions look fiercer.”

Chava says hers is “Not a circus.”

This past weekend we tried out a new family activity – Letter-boxing. It’s essentially a treasure hunt, where you follow clues to find a box hidden in a public area. The box contains a book, and a rubber stamp. You use your own personal stamp to stamp the log book, and use the stamp from the box to stamp your own log book. Then you put everything back exactly the way you found it.

Ray made our family stamp. Ian decided that we should have a coyote as our family symbol. I would have written that off as completely impossible, but Ray went to work. He printed a picture, traced it onto the stamp, and cut the stamp. I am extremely impressed with the results.