Turtle Prints

On Thursday I set up the pool for some outdoor fun.  We had a stove repair that day and the electrician coming on Friday, so I knew we would be home and in need of something to do.  On Friday I also brought out the cloud dough (that was still good from January), which we had used before.  Eric Carle has a book Little Cloud, and I decided to go with the cloud dough sensory instead of making an ivory soap cloud (seen here).  But, we may give that a try at some point.

For some reason Braden had asked to put his helmet on earlier and so he still had it on when we brought out the cloud dough.

Pool Time

Getting the cloud dough ready 

Scooping

Hi Sage

Fun stuff 

Sage is very interested

Cloud dough tower 

Using the garden tools

Messy messy

Oops

I was cleaning up after dinner and was about to throw away the packaging from the pork and realized I could use it for one of the art projects.  I had originally given up on creating it, because I didn't think I had any styrofoam packaging to be used.  

Turtle shell prints for The Foolish Tortoise

Making the "stamps"

Braden using his other stamp while waiting to paint

The first print

Stampin'

Really getting into it

Mommy helping

Used stamps

Finished print

Once we were finished with the turtle prints we had to find a distraction, because someone did not want to put the paints away.  So we played around with the magnetic pom poms.