The 8yo has been obsessed for weeks now with this book. Each page contains instructions on something to do to it (scribble with wild abandon, take the book into the shower, tie it to a string and take it for a walk...) and after getting over the initial reluctance to 'destroy' a book, we have fully embraced the creative process!
In fact, the 8yo loved it so much I ended up picking up a newer edition for the 10yo - the new one is in colour. Very similar types of instructions.
And here's another book by the same author that the 10yo has also been working through. You're supposed to collect items from your walks that match the requirements on the pages. For some reason this one hasn't appealed as much to the wild and crazy in my children. It's still getting done, though.
The 6yo, meanwhile, is obsessed with learning how to sew. This kit came into our house to further that desire and Mama is now the proud owner of a felt cat. Hand sewn by her very favourite littlest person, of course.
Corn husk dolls, games that involve one person holding the hose while on the deck while the other people stand underneath and pretend it is raining, visiting the nearby creek where there are hundreds of tiny baby frogs, hatching out a monarch chrysalis, capturing a froglet and making a habitat for it, feeding it a cricket, and then letting it go the next day, helping to make gooseberry jam...
The 10yo is obsessed with The Mad Scientist's Club. This is the complete collection, available through Purple House Press.
Painting little wooden boxes, making origami yodas, learning how to crochet and making long crochet chains to leave all over the house, making bouquets of flowers for the vase in the bathroom, collecting seeds and planting them in pots...
This odd, vintage racing game from France that the children are obsessed with playing right now.
Filling a surprise care package for Grandma with candy and pictures, counting the money in their piggybanks and buying bubblegum with it, swimming in the lake, making a rock collection, practicing cartwheels, fishing off the bridge...
Reading my vintage Stephen Cosgrove collection, helping me finish an elaborate paint-by-numbers, lots of walks with the dog, picking raspberries, mowing the lawn, watering the garden, checkers and Chinese checkers and chess, making lemonade, walking to get ice cream...
There. Doesn't that sound like a nice mid-summer?
These sound like LOVELY summer activities. I will check into a few of these. I've seen those "wreck this journal" before, now I'm curious if my children will like them. Thanks for the heads up. :)
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