Ways I Entertain My Kids: June Happenings!

In addition to selling things, donating things, or throwing them away we have done a few activities this month. :) The boys are still VERY much into Super Mario Brothers and like to watch people play it on the wii, play it on the wii themselves, play with their Mario figures, watch Mario videos, hear Mario bedtime stories...

We made our own liquid watercolor using markers that were too dried out to use as markers anymore. I got the idea from this blog: http://mrspicassosartroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/liquid-watercolors.html

Here are pictures we made using the blue liquid watercolor. We sprayed it from a spray bottle onto paper and then used green glitter glue for seaweed and sea shapes macaroni (THANKS, ALICIA!) to make an ocean picture. It is not gorgeous, but they had fun.

We went to the earth science (or whatever they call it) museum.

Dino from the earth science museum. This is actually one of the most museum looking museums in Windhoek. It was a pleasant surprise. :)

Duplo legos! We aren't taking them with us to Armenia so we got a lot of good play time with them before we sold them. We are moving on to the "big kid" legos. :)

Justin has developed a love for Scrabble. He plays it his own way, basically just creating a crossword of words. He is very excited about the point aspect as well. Good for practicing spelling AND math skills.

Magnets! Cut up pipe cleaners and magnet wands. They loved scattering them and cleaning them up again.

Playing with trains is fun too. Somehow they managed to incorporate their Mario figures and dinosaurs into the trains as well.

Went to what my boys call the "Gingerbread Church" to take a picture. This is a major Windhoek landmark and we were doing a Flat Stanley project for a friend of mine.