Lets Make it Rain

We decided to make a jar that let the kids understand and see the process with which rain is created. We used boiling water in the jar. And a bowl of ice on top. Super easy.

Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air is cooled and condenses as part of the water cycle. Clouds consist of billions of tiny water droplets (and even ice crystals) floating in the sky.  The rain is then formed when the water droplets are too heavy to be suspended in the air.

The ice at the top represented our Cloud.

Our rain droplets are forming and dropping

Mikey was upset because he wanted to see the droplets falling. It was a little hard to see when each droplet fell.

So I tried coating the bottom of the bowl with powdered tempera paint (Kool-Aid would have worked too).

This did make it easier to see the raindrops falling but the water also got cloudy and I didn't really like it so. We tried again.

First with washable markers. Just coloring the bottom of the bowl

We also tried watercolors

They were to light so I went over them with food coloring

We ended up making a rainbow with the markers

We left each bowl out in the sun to completely dry before trying our rain experiment again.

The food coloring one worked great. It immediately started raining. First from the center.

And then from the sides

It was fantastic! Definitely the winner as far as showing how the rain falls

The markers were just to light and barely showed up. They were still fun though!

Ren Fair 2014

We love Ren Fair. The kids have a blast every year.

This guy made amazing bubbles with his hands. THe kids were here for probably about 30 minutes. I wish I had taken a video. Mikey was actually running around attacking and popping the bubbles with his axe. And Liam was running around screaming with delight attacking and popping bubbles as well.

Liam loved the baby pig

Kaia found her favorite Fairy!

This year she made sure were prepared. She had us bring a flat of strawberries, dried apricots and dried apples, and a large bag of glass beads a.k.a. fairy money

She made everyone's day by sharing all her goodies with all the fairies as well as anyone who bowed to her.

It was amazing she had the beast time

You can't tell but Mikey was actually super excited that there were boy fairies this year. This one he called Fish boy fairy. He fed him an apricot

And gave him a glass bead

The fairies were fantastic this year

They also had fun at the petting zoo

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Mikey was so excited about this boy fairy he is a puppy fairy. Mikey fed him by hand

Awesome!

This was the best year yet. I should have taken more pictures but we were just having so much fun it was hard to remember to grab the camera often enough.

Giant Bubbles

Are you ready to make some amazing HUGE bubbles? Thius is what I used: 2 dowels or one dowel cut in two (I actually used an old broom stick and cut it in two each side is 2 ft long) Two eye hooks you know the ones that have the circle at the top Rope- I used rope I already had at home, if I were to go out and buy some I would get something thinner, Like the rope you use to hang laundry would be perfect. Important- You want it to be cotton or soft nylon I cut my pieces to these lengths top rope is 30 inches bottom rope is 86 inches a Washer Directions- 1. Make sure you cut your dowels to your desired length 2. Attach the eye hooks- 1 hook on the end of each dowel 3. Attach the shorter rope first tie each side to each eye hook 4. Attach the longer rope. Attach one side first to one eye hook, slide the washer on and then attach the other side of the rope to the other eye hook. 5. This is optional. But I like to take a lighter to the frayed ends of the rope to stop the fraying and to give the rope a longer life. 6. That's it enjoy! Make your own Bubble Solution I recommend any of my Amazing Bubble Recipes! Just make sure you make them a day ahead of time to make sure they work really well!   The great thing about this Bubble maker other than the fact that it makes HUGE bubbles is that you do not need a large bubble solution container. We used a sand bucket. You can see that the kids had no trouble making huge bubbles! They hardest thing for my kids is the waiting to pop the bubbles. They wanted to run and pop each bubble before they were done being made. You can see the washer helps hold down the rope and keeps it from getting to tangled. I told you huge amazing bubbles! They were so incredible! And that's it now its your turn. Go make a giant bubble blower maybe you already have everything you need... To make bubbles like this!!!

Oh and just incase you want to look up some other amazing bubble ideas check out this post where we had a Bubble Playdate and made the bubble blower like you see below and more!

Flower Shop

Welcome to our Flower Shop! The kids named the shop and made the sign. We have a display of lovely 99cent store flowers. Plus Kaia pointed out we pick up our organic fruit from the flower shop by us. So we have some fruit there as well. If you want to make some cute flower balls. Its super easy just pick up some of those plastic balls with the holes in them from the 99 cent store and hot glue flowers in each hole. If you want to get fancy you can spray paint the ball first but I didnt and I dont think you can tell. You can see the red one I made in the picture above and the yellow one in the picture below More Flowers and our butterfly/ caterpillar den behind Watering cans in the sink and Birds and bloom magazines behind More flowers and baskets The buying station. There was a calculator and a pad and paper for receipts. But I didnt get any pictures of it. Here is Kaia wrapping cellophane around the flowers (the cellophane was precut) and pieces of ribbon Selling flowers tying ribbon (hooray for fine motor) And bags are essential Cards to personalize the flower shop gift selling station I used cutup pool noodles to hold the flowers up super fancy Mikey was super into this. Flowers are not just for girls! This Imaginary Play kept them busy for a long time! Looking through a flower magazine for shopping choices This was such a fun set up pretty much everything came from the 99 cent store so it was pretty inexpensive!