Our wacky week

Here's a photo essay from our week. En lieu of captions I'll give a synopsis of our activities including some project ideas that were fun for us and are worthy in my humble opinion of sharing with other mamas searching for indoor fun.

First: The piggy penny bank. After hearing about a project at church on Sunday that would require some money to purchase audio Bible stories for children in Africa, Miss L decided she HAD to build her own piggy bank to save some pennies to help. So, we wrapped a sheet of craft foam around a metal mixed-nuts can, glued on a curly pipe-cleaner tail and slit a hole in the lid--viola! Piggy bank. Collecting change all week to fill it has been fun, too.

Next: Masking-tape shapes on the hardwood floor. Endless games: Simon says...find the shape I'm describing...find the shape that starts with H...scoot your brother to the oval...etc.

Check out my "favorite link" (on the left-hand side of the blog) to Montessori by Hand (shout out to cousin Jen for sharing this resource). Mrs. Montessori by Hand lists instructions for making beautiful mod-podge stick puppets. We'll try that next week.

And finally, we took a tots' class at the zoo on Thursday, where L got to touch a live chinchilla, lizard and chicken. Mr. C tore apart the rubber floor puzzle and watched fish in the aquarium while L had her lesson. Later L wrestled an alligator in the wild Florida exhibit. We're wiped out and it's only Thursday.

Wow! Not much of a "photo" essay. I never did understand how newspapers could ever run a story with only pictures and no words. No words?