Adventures of Evie

  Today we played with color mixing. We made a pan of sidewalk paint and started with primary colors, mixing them as we went across the pan. After we finished mixing them up we took the colors we made outside to paint! We did this activity last summer and it was a huge hit then as well. It's messy and creative but also a really good way to learn about colors and practice her writing and drawing skills. Plus it takes less than five minutes to set up! This weekend  I plan to power wash the drive way so we'll get to look at our art for a few days before we sweep it away this time! :) There was also a yummy food truck in our hood tonight. We got these delicious oreo chimney cakes to eat at the park and then had a nice walk home while we enjoyed them. Summer is already shaping up to be lots of fun! 

  We're still soaking up the sunshine this week before it goes away again. Today we had a rainbow day. This is far from the first time we've talked about or learned about rainbows but it's always fun to play with colors. We made some sidewalk puffy paint and had fun spreading it all over the sidewalk. Since we needed to also clean up the puffy paint after she was finished making her designs we made a bucket of rainbow soap fluff and she played with that for awhile and ended up getting it everywhere (which was the plan!) She had fun putting it in containers and pretending to serve me ice cream and then we would roll the containers down the driveway to see what patterns the "ice cream" made when we were done pretending to eat it. Once it was sufficiently soaped up we got out the hose and sprayed everything down. As a little bonus Evie got to make rainbows with the water. She loved this and she has had so much fun playing in water outside lately. We have colder days ...