Thursday, June 25, 2015

Here and now

 My new motto- good reminder - everyday
 Words from Robin "Can we tie dye everything and live like hippies?" "Uh ya, Robin we kind  of do!"
 Rainbow Tie dye for our Girl Scout Zoo overnight.
 Nature find by Owl.
My favorite place to be.
 The start of my garden, unfortunately it is all DEAD now. I think I planted in a bad spot I need to  get my soil tested.
 Read aloud outside in the hammock

Project on canvas the littles did last year, finally up on the wall. Each child did their own quarter of the sun with provided paints and scrap book paper. They had some rules but each expressed their own individuality in each section. This will be the focal point on the kitchen wall that I am doing a college gallery on.

Example of a a bright fun gallery wall.



Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Fairy fires = survival skills

Fire building for kids


We were reading Little House of the Prairie and Pa was talking about fire building so I thought what a great time this would be to teach my children how to build their very own fire. I saw a post on Pinterest a awhile back about making small  fairy size fires so thats just what we did.

Each child was sent out site to find Fuel, Tnder, rocks and a good dirt area to build the fire at.

Fuel - smal twings
Tinder -  dry pine needles and leaves
 Rocks were gravel from the driveway to make our safe circle.

I ended up using lint as our tinder,  I seriously cannot start a fire without it, I am totally screwed if I need to start a fire in an emergency without dryer lint!! I need to work on that.
This is what I use to start a big fire outside!

They found a dirt area ( our driveway)

 Falcon helped Robin by showing her how to make a teepee style fire.


  Small Fairy fires!  After a lot of frustration and saying "I cannot do it" Robin successfully built her tepee style fairy fire.

Owl sat very still and watched as Falcon demonstrated, he needed more help ( the youngest) but he did it too!

Duck was being stubborn ( as usual) he just basically threw all his stuff in a pile. His dd not stay lit for more than 30 seconds.

The kids learned to use matches safely today as well.

As soon as we were done the kids were begging to do it again later today.

We will work on these fairy fire for the next few weeks and move up to big fires.

Building a fire-= a necessary= skill for all people to know!

I can't wait to do these fairy fires with my Girl Scout Troop this fall.