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My Features This Week All About Trees! 

B-inspired Mama shared a day of tree learning!

There's Just One Mommy created this lovely tree craft!

Campfires and Cleats used buttons to make this beautiful tree!

Happy Hooligans mixed it up with some tree bark and paint swatches!

Crafty Mom's Share hunted for leaves!

Ramblings of a Christian Mom used leaves to make a sun catcher!

Where Imagination Grows inspects leaves and flowers with a light table!

We painted with seed pods over at This Big Happy!

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Seed Pod Painting

With fall comes a huge variety of seed pods in this part of the country. This means every walk turns into a seed pod collection. Recently we took the opportunity to paint with them! Head over to This Big Happy to read more about it! While you are there take some time to look around at all the frugal ideas Meg shares over there!

Sight Word Treasure Hunt

Last year for Talk Like a Pirate Day, the kids got all dressed up like pirates and followed a map of our yard (while practicing gross motor skills) to find treasure. This year the girls informed me that dressing and talking like a pirate was scary. Ooooook....so I found a new take on the treasure hunt for them, a Sight Word Treasure Hunt. 

I started with yellow baked cotton balls with sight words written on them (yes I saved these from our Turkey Feeding last year). I placed a winding trail of them them throughout the yard leading to pirate treasure!

When I brought the girls out I told them some pirates had been there and left behind a trail of gold that may lead them to pirate treasure. 

They would have to follow the trail to find the pirate treasure, but in order to move on they would first have to read the word on the gold piece.

They had to be quick to keep Eli from grabbing them all before the trail was gone!  He was so sad when  he found one, and I wouldn't let him grab it! Bria had to help with a few of the words, but between them both they made it to the treasure!

They were all pretty excited to get some of those little gold and silver treasure chests! 

They all enjoyed sampling the pirate booty, and Talk Like a Pirate Day continued without the "scary" pirate garb!

P is for Plumber

Our second community helper for P is Plumber! I explained to them that a plumber is someone who fixes pipes, so if there is a leak or a clog they are the ones you call. I also mentioned that Mario and Luigi (yeah you know who I mean) are plumbers too. This was probably by far the most exciting news of the day to them! *sigh* 

In order to explore the movement of water a little more, I set up a little water wall on our fence. I used zip ties to attach various bottles and pool noodles to the fence. This did require cutting holes in the bottles and pool noodles (near the top where the water won't run out). I purposely put one pool noodle up in a way they couldn't get water through it (unless they have the hose to provide extra pressure).  I also left some caps on the bottles. I did put holes in some of the caps with a nail, so they would still drip just a little.

Then I turned them loose with a bucket and pitcher full of water and little cups. They had to find and "repair" the clogged areas (caps).

They figured it out fairly quickly, and then they wanted to do it over and over again! They would put the caps on, and say, "I think there is a problem," and then they would start working on it.

They also got to solve leakage problems when one of the pieces would slide a bit and no longer line up with the one underneath it. This was especially true with the pool noodles and funnels.

They played and played until their bucket was empty, and hopefully they know a little more about water and Plumbers.

Summer Fun and Fitness

Happy Exercise with Your Child Week! Head over to Gummylump to see the fun we have been having while exercising!

Giant Bubble Bath

Summer time, the weather is hot, and everyone is having fun in the pool. The pool alone is certainly enough to please my kids, but wondering through the store one day I came up with something that would make it even more irresistible....BUBBLES!

I picked up a bottle of bubble bath (something we use pretty rarely around here). Then one morning I went out and filled the pool, pouring the entire bottle of bubble bath in! The kids were beyond excited about all the bubbles!

I actually was afraid the bubbles wouldn't last long because they never seem to in the tub! But the more they played the bubblier it got! 

They played most of the morning in their bubbly pool, and by the time we went out that afternoon the bubble were all gone.  They sure had fun while it lasted though!