First of all, I made a change that I may scrap next time around. Normally, we have a half day of school. We do family devotions, math, and language arts before skipping everything else to have our Pinterest Day. Today, the genius that I can be, decided to do a full day of school on top of our Pinterest activities. Let's just say, my head and my pillow will have a long-awaited, much appreciated meeting tonight.
Another slight change I might make next month is the amount of activities we do. I didn't account for the playtime with many of these, or the eating of things, or the little distractions along the way, so I totally crammed way too much into one day. It is now the kids' bedtime, and they just finished up for the night. Hey, they aren't complaining, but my pregnant aching back is giving me a good scolding.
If you'd like to check out everything we did in one place, you can follow this link to my October Pinterest Day 2014 Pinterest Board. (click on the highlighted words) If you'd like to see specific activities, click on the highlighted links for each one.
Here are 3 of my 4 kids gathering supplies for our big day. KayKay decided to boycott the picture.
So, without further adieu, I give you October Fall Everything Pinterest Day 2014...
1. Dissolving Pumpkins
Follow the link to see how to go about playing this activity out. We had a lot of fun with it! I'll spare you the details via written word and show you a couple pictures of our results. :)
We printed off the blank worksheets and I had the kids draw in the pictures. They seemed to enjoy this. We also discussed the Life Cycle of an Apple a little bit, but didn't do any of the activities this link provides. Thank goodness, because we'd still be going about our day right now!
This is a great recipe that calls for natural dyes (of which we didn't use.... cue gasps!). It smelled so good. We used cinnamon rather than pumpkin spice, and I plan on doing this again around Christmas time. The kids adored this playdough. They literally played with it for hours today. Hours and hours. Maybe I'll make it once a month. It made for a great babysitter while I cleaned up the numerous messes we made in the kitchen. Here are some more pictures of the kids...
Who doesn't love a good leaf rubbing? This link gets into the science of things a bit. It was neat. It was our first shot at doing this with aluminum foil as well. The kids loved it, this took minimal time, and now I have colorful leaves to cut out and hang around the house. Here's a pic of a couple of the kids' attempts. It's hard to see the leaves on the tinfoil in the picture, but it turned out really cool!
At this point, we had to take a break to eat dinner. Here's a picture... and a link, for the curious cats who just have to know what we ate...
Kayleigh was in charge of this one. She put everything in one box and blindfolded the younger kids to have them feel and "see" if they knew what they were touching. I think they had fun.... I couldn't be sure.... I wasn't in the room at the time. ;) Sorry, no cute, but completely out of focus pic for this one.
Last, but certainly not least, the (as Uncle Jesse would say) "Lord Have MERCY!" deliciously good Pumpkin Spice Puppy Chow. We used Ghirardelli white chocolate, because our local grocery store didn't carry the orange candy melts, so this ended up looking a bit more like the literal dog food Puppy Chow, and a lot less Pumpkin Spice, but after throwing some candy corn in the mix, this quickly became a family favorite.
The end result??
Happy kids eating a terribly bad for you, but oh, so yummy bedtime snack.
AND....
One spazzed out, exhausted mother.
Here's to next month....
~Em
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