Nature Scavenger Hunt

Thanks to Pinterest, I have been able to find all sorts of things to do with the girls.  One thing I found was a nature scavenger hunt.  You can find several links if you search pinterest.  Here are some of the pictures that I took before my camera died.  It was a ton of fun!  We were on our hunt for nearly 2 hours! 

Every good scavenger hunt needs a pair of binoculars.  I glued 2 toilet paper rolls together and they decorated them with tissue paper. 

 

Ready to go with the list, bag and binoculars.

Here are our lists.  I tried to put things on it that I knew we would be able to find in our neighborhood.

Reading the list....sideways:)

Ohh, I found a stick-which was later fed to my dog....

Princess Lila checking out the neighborhood

I found something blue!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kool aid paint

 Well, clearly this is really old since it has been extremely dry and hot these days!  There was a day where it rained all day.  The girls started to go nuts from being trapped inside.  It was one of those days where they were fighting about everything.  I remembered that I had bought kool aid-actually generic- to try to paint with. 

First, I dumped several different flavors of the kool-aid into muffin liners.  It was VERY dusty!  I would recommend NOT doing this with the kids.  We kept sneezing.

I gave them each poster board pieces.  I used the poster board because it is thicker.  I figured regular paper would rip easily.  I didn't have watercolor paper.  I would probably work better.

They both then spread the different powders across their papers.

It was pretty messy but on the plus side, the kitchen smelled good for days:)

Once they were happy with the powder, I put the papers outside on the deck in the rain.

They were so excited to go outside in the rain to check out what was going on.  It was raining pretty hard at one point.

This was the beginning.....

A little more wet...

This was the finished product.  We probably could have let it spread a little more but the girls were impatient and they decided  that the pictures were done.  

 

 

 

 

The project turned out pretty cute and provided an hour of entertainment.  Next time, I would use water color paper and make sure that the powder is in a thin layer on the paper.  The piles turned into pretty cool "mountains" on the paper.  The colors would spread more if it was thinner, I think.  Also, I would avoid the grape flavor.  It looked more like black than purple.