Brown, the Color of the Week

You may think brown is not that fun of a color, but there are a ton of things to do with the color brown! Since Ares was going to be gone on vacation on Thursday I tried to fit in what I could in three days.

Monday: For our water activity I made a brown bath. I did not take a picture of this because in all honesty, brown water is actually rather gross looking. I had mixed the color tablets we had and it turned out brown. Then we added toys that we had that were brown.

Tuesday: I had the pleasure of watching little Miss Emma on Tuesday so after Kyle and I took Ares to school we took all three girls to the park.

While we were at the park I had the girls help me pick up acorns. Only Brigid tried to eat them, and Ceri and Emma were more interested at looking at them.

After I picked up Ares from school that afternoon he did his homework, we all ate dinner, and then headed to the Mary and Bill's miniature horse farm. When we got there, Mary had some chores for Ares to do first. He first had to shovel out a stall. You would think a 6 year old wouldn't like having to do this, but he thought it was so much fun! (In fact he was asking to go back all last week!)

Then Mary took all the kids on quick wheel barrow rides. She went to fast for us to get a picture of Ares though!

Afterwards we went to go get the horse that belonged in the shed that Ares shoveled out, and Ares put him away. I can't remember the horse's name, I want to say Spice, but I don't think that's right. He did a very good job leading the horse to his stall. Mary tried to get the girls to pet the horse, but they were a little scared. Ares then fed him.

Ares helped Mary put all the other horses in their sheds for the night, and then led their dwarf pony in for the night as well.

Before we left to take Ares to karate, Mary pushed the girls on the swing. Ares then found a HUGE caterpillar! We took it home with us to put in a jar, and give to his teacher. We had such a fun time out there! Thank you so much Mary for letting us come out, and having Ares help you, he loved it!

Wednesday: After tutoring and dinner I had the kids do this week's art project. I painted the kids' forearms brown (Ares did his own), and had them press it onto the paper to make the trunk of our trees.

Then I painted the kids' hands red, pressed that to the paper, and did the same thing with orange and yellow. This made our leaves.

We then glued on the acorns that we had collected on Tuesday. Here's how they turned out!

After our art projects were done, it was time for taste testing brown foods. I had them eat wheat bread, accept Ares. Bread is always a hit.

Peanut butter was next on the list. Luckily none of my kids got my peanut allergy.

Then the finale was chocolate chips! My personal favorite brown food.

Thursday: That morning I dropped Ares off with his dad for them to go on vacation at World's of Fun. I then took the girls over to Kyle Ann's for a play date. I had forgotten to bring my camera that day so I didn't take any pictures unfortunately. Jude and the girls haven't played together for a couple weeks, and you could tell they had missed each other!

Friday: I got the house and the girls ready for Kyle and I's first date night in a couple months! It really was an awesome week! :)