Portrait of the Rain
1 cup Water
2 cups Corn Starch
2 drops of Food Coloring (optional)
Play Play Play!
Making a Guitar: Cut rectangular hole out of any kind of empty box, place rubber bands around box over hole, cut a round hole out of the top of the box, place paper towel roll in, tape around roll to secure. Play "Stairway to Heaven" as loud as you can!
This project was so fun to do with Mason! I bought a couple different types of citrus Lemon, Lime, Grapefruit and Orange. We smelled the fruit, talked about the color and size and shape. We then proceeded to cut the fruit and juice it with our hand juicer. We put the juice from each fruit into a glass and taste tested it. Hopefully Mason now knows where (Tropicana) juice comes from. It was hilarious to watch Mason's face when he tasted the lemon and lime juice. Later on he made a big mess by mixing all the juices together. Mason loved this activity and I really enjoyed it as well especially the fact that Oliver slept though all of it:) 
Yet another lesson in baking today with yummy Zucchini Bread! So many skills encompass baking adding, measuring cracking(math) dumping and stirring, grating (fine motor) smelling and tasting(senses) the list goes on. Baking is one of Mason's favorite activities!
We have been reading a book over and over again about shadows..so on a sunny day we took a shadow walk around the neighborhood. We talked about how the sun hits you on one side which creates a dark spot on the other. Many things have shadows squirrels, trees, cars etc... Mason thought it was very fun to chase his shadow and race his shadow down the street. I hope to expand on this by doing shadow puppets on walls at night as well as a shadow box.....until then.
I love the art of building... I don't know if its the fact that my father was a carpenter and I was around many of the houses he built or if its the whole making things with your hands that's attractive but to me it truly is a form of art no matter how raw. I have tried to introduce this to Mason with a few "building projects" He always wants to build a house so we have made a couple practice ones that were as simple as two pieces of wood nailed together. However finally the other day we collected some scrap wood from the garage and drew a rough design of the house ( with lots of help from mommy) Then when Daddy got home from work our lesson on creating began and our house turned out very well. (Mason and Mommy later added paint as well)
