It's craft time again... Elephant Watering Can

Here's a fun & easy craft that we made this weekend. I saw this in Disney's Family Fun magazine. (Btw, if you have kids & don't get this magazine, you are missing out.)

Anyways... back to the craft now.

You will need:

2 milk jugs

1 milk jug lid

foam or construction paper

hot glue gun

scissors

pen

Start by drawing 2 circles on the foam or construction paper to make the ears.

I traced a bowl to make my circles.

Cut the circles out & glue one on each side of the milk jug.

Next cut out circles for the eyes (or you could use googly eyes.)

I cut a green foam circle & a smaller white circle. Then I colored black on the eyes.

Then glue the eyes to milk jug.

Cut a circle in the lid of the milk jug & then put the lid back on the jug.

Take the second milk jug & cut off the handle. You can throw the rest of the jug away.

Cut small slits around one end of the handle. This will help it bend better.

Glue the slit end of the handle to the top of the milk jug lid. This will make the elephant's trunk.

Now your watering can is ready to use!

A Trip to the Children's Museum

Yesterday, I took Maryse, Addy & Alex to the Children's Museum. It's one of our favorite places & yesterday's trip was extremely fun! Be prepared, I'm posting A LOT of pictures!!

We started out in the How Does It Work exhibit.

"Hello"

Then we visited the new exhibit Out On A Limb.

This exhibit is all about nature: trees, birds, weather, insects, etc...

You can write your name or a message & hang it on the tree.

Addy wrote her name & Maryse helped her hang it.

And of course Maryse had to hang her name too!

When you bang on this, it sounds like thunder. So of course, Alex loved it!

This is a wind tunnel that you put fake leaves in & they "blow in the wind." Really cool!

Addy had to rake all the leaves after they fell out of the wind tunnel.

I love this tree!

Next we visited the Matter Factory.

And then to PowerPlay!

Cyberchase was next.

And then on to the Invention Convention, which is our favorite place in the museum.

We made a rocket & here Alex is getting ready to launch it.

You can build cars with Legos & race them down this track.

We built this tower. Alex was amazed because it was taller than he was.

When I was finally able to pull Addy away Invention Convention, we headed back upstairs to Kidtropolis, USA! We shopped at HEB,

drove the police car,

and watched an election.

It was Harry Potter day at the museum

so on the way out, we stopped at the craft tables & made a wizard wardrobe for Addy!

We had a super, fantastic day & I can't wait til we go back!!

101 Summer Activities Update...

Since we're about halfway through the summer, I thought I would update everyone with all the fun things we've done this summer. We've been busy doing lots of things such as:

making foam crafts

coloring

making a cake (take a look at that expression on Alex's face,

he looks awestruck at what Addy is doing!)

making breakfast for daddy on Father's Day

(egg in the hole)

picking tomatoes from our garden

making a fort in the playroom

painting our faces

making crazy feet

and of course SWIMMING at the neighborhood pools!!!!

(because what would summer be without swimming???)

Of course, these aren't the only things we've done all summer, just a few from our highlight reel.