First we painted rocks. I went collecting in the gravel portion of our driveway and then dished out the paint. I gave them more than just blues and greens, because the *plan* was to paint food shapes on them and use them as labels in the garden. I forgot to remind myself that a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old wont know how to paint anything but “rainbows”.
Despite my momentary lapse of brilliance (yes, normally I am constantly smart), the project went super! Both boys enjoyed it, although Monkey probably ate more paint than he got on his rocks…but Monster asked to paint rocks again for three days straight! It was a nice low-key project while we recovered from the first of the two illnesses.
After we felt better, and the rocks were dry, we took the starts out to the garden and planted them. I am attempting a sort-of square foot type garden style this year and you can read more about the garden project here.
(once I actually write that post….and then figure out how to hyperlink it…)
Our next Earth Day project was to paint planet Earths. For this I got out just the blue and green paint, but somehow we got some red in there….Monster boy also really liked this one and painted four Earths!
Our finished Earths!
The last project was a sensory play with green and blue jello…only I didn’t have green or blue jello, and instead tried adding food coloring to orange jello. Needless to say, it did not go over well, but the boys did not seem to care!
Next year I am hoping to focus more on recycling and talking about how we can help make the Earth happy and healthy. This year was more about introducing the fact that we live on a planet, and vocabulary involved like: Earth, planet, garden, dirt, types of plants, etc.
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