On Thursday morning, we had our first Family Book Club. Following Andrea at Momfessionals blog, we copied her exact set of reading and activities. It was great because 1) I didn't have to dream up any ideas and 2) the kids liked it and it took 3 hours of our day! Here is what we did:
First, we ate donuts with sprinkles and read our book. Grace just ate the sprinkles.
Then, we watched a you tube video on how crayons are made in factories. Side note: I love mass production and love videos like this. The kids were not that impressed. We were supposed to take duplo legos and build a factory after this, but since they didn't care for the video, I decided to move on.
Next, we took white card stock and drew pictures with a white crayon. It was kind of hard for them because Atticus kept telling me he couldn't see the white. ha! But, I drew some pictures too. Then, we water colored over the paper and the white pictures showed up! Atticus liked this, but Grace REALLY liked this. This girl loves to paint.
Then, while Grace continued to work on her water coloring, Atticus and I drew giant crayons and colored them to prepare for our next activity. When we were done, the three of us went through our stock of stickers and matched the stickers to the right color on our poster. This was a hit.
Then, we went through our large bags of crayons and sorted through them to separate the broken crayons from the good ones. First, we took the wrappers off the broken ones and the kids kept telling me their crayons were naked and laughing hysterically. Oh my. And, surprisingly, they didn't get bored with this part until we were almost done. And, it took awhile. I didn't realize the glue on the crayon papers was so tough to get off. But, they both concentrated and worked on them for a long time. I think I was tired of doing it before they were! Then, we put liners in a mini muffin pan, broke up our crayons into smaller pieces and filled our muffin pan. We cooked them at 250 degrees for 10 minutes and they melted into multi-colored, muffin shaped crayons! We haven't gotten a chance to color with them yet, but they look cool!
Then, we ate lunch because our next activity included skittles and M&M's. After lunch, we opened a bag of skittles and a bag of M&M's and split them up between both kids. They could eat some and then they had to sort the rest by color and count them and color in their graph to match. I bought skittles also for the color purple since M&M's don't have purple, but the purple ones really look brown. So, next time I would just buy M&M's. Anyways, Grace only wanted her ponies to play and eat the candy and while she liked sorting and counting them, she was not interested in coloring in the rectangles. Atticus only wanted to eat them, ha! So, when I told him he could eat them after he counted and graphed them, then he got busy.
So, overall this was a great day and idea! I already have 4 other books to do Family Book Club activities and the blogger I follow is going to do some more of these this summer. So, I'm looking forward to it! Oh and the main reason this was probably such a success was because this girl decided to sleep all morning!
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