Summer Fun: Recently

4.  Draw and play hopscotch in the driveway.
With their babysitter . . . .


5.  Long midday bubble bath.
She's making "rose tea" and "purple drinks" in the tub right now.


7.  Draw with chalk inside and/or outside.
Again, with the babysitter . . . this and #4 are very similar.


14.  Make friendship bracelets.
Sis used her two new bracelet kits--one with beads, one with colored embroidery floss--to make several bracelets.  I even got to make a pretty purple-beaded one.


33.  Make our own bubble solution.
We compared homemade with store-bought.  Homemade bubbles are bigger and don't burst easily (and smell like Dawn!), while store-bought solution creates lots of little bubbles that burst immediately.  

Bubble Solution

1/2 cup dishwashing solution
1-2 tablespoons glycerin (available at pharmacies) or corn syrup (but this attracts bugs)
6 cups water

Mix together, age overnight, and have fun!


from the Stepping Stones museum


35.  Write to a pen pal.
Sis wrote Gommie today.

45.  Sort through books to give some away.
Slowly working our way through the kids' bookshelves to give to a local reading charity for kids with no books (where our friend Miss M.H. works).


50.  Scrapbook
Mama and the kids scrapbooked our weekend swazu last night.

53.  Make something with Sculpey.
We had a blast making some of our favorite critters--a bunny, penguin, hedgehog, and otter.  Their uncle, Goo, via Mama, introduced me to polymer clay.  He made turtles.  I made dollhouse food and little bears years ago.

  

65.  Visit an historic house or living history museum.
Plimoth and Newport.