Nana Cousin Camp 2015--Planting a Rainbow Edition
Our theme this week was Planting a Rainbow.
The books we used were
and
this experiment was somewhat of
a Pinterest FAIL!
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| One of our snacks was rainbow jello suggested by Caleb. This was one of the successes of the evening. |
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| For the project explained below, we needed several colors of live flowers. The first FAIL issue probably started when thrifty Nana decided that "day old" flowers found at the back of the store would work just fine. WRONG! |
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| The idea was to put a sheet of clear contact paper on a window, sticky side out. We had one for each grandchild. They were to take the flowers (which by this time were falling apart at a rapid rate) and attach them to the sticky side to make a BEAUTIFUL rainbow garden. You will see what it REALLY looked like later in this post. |
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| Pasta boiled in food coloring (which the children politely turned down after taking a few bites) |
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| It looks pretty, but....... |
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| Fruit cabobs (Kelly's suggestion) which actually were a great success. No sword fights happened during camp because I was on hand as soon as the fruit was devoured to throw the swords, I mean skewers, away. |
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| The look of "Hmmmm" on David's face summed up the meal. |
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| Good try Nana. |
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| Cora doesn't have quite the discriminating taste as the boys so she actually liked most of the rainbow colored food. |
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| Does this face say it all? |
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| They did actually enjoy the craft activity a lot. Just not the way it was intended. Note all the flower petals on the window sill. |
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| Interesting is a good word for it. |
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| Most of the flower petals ended up on the floor. Thank goodness Ducca was being proactive or most of the petals would have gone down the AC vents which in Colorado are on the floor (yes, right underneath the window where the contact paper was placed.) |
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| Aftermath. |
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| Caleb said, "I think I'll just draw a rainbow." Smart young man. |
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| The highlight of the evening came when Cora learned the fine art of gluing. |
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| And, oh, yes, highlight #2 was the wonderful rainbow Sour Heads that David had suggested for the party. Every activity that you do with your grandchildren does not have to be a WIN! because even when you have a FAIL, it is fun being together. Ducca and I still heard the following as they were going out the door with their parents. When is the next Nana Cousin Camp? And now they are also asking, "What is the theme?" because they like to make suggestions. |
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