Ask, and You Shall Recieve ;)

There is a ceramics shop down the street where people can go and paint ceramic plates, vases and what not... I always thought it would be fun to go do it with some of the kids, but today while I was picking up some craft paper, I found these and thought that it would be fun to paint them!

Asher painted the tiger, Sylvia painted the hippo, Seth painted the lion, Behn painted the parot, Talia painted the Zebra and Tovala painted the elephant.

Seth and Talia were both good at adding lots of detail!

Tovala and Sylvia both had to find a place to add some pink paint on their hippos and elephants...

While painting, we were talking about each animal and Sylvia asked me if hippopotamuses go in water and I told her that, yes Hippos love the water... a little later Talia informed me that Sylvia was trying to put her Hippo in the sink, with water.... oops. (the little figurines are made out of clay and are not finished)

Why are all of the extra-FUN activities so messy?? I mean, what could be more exciting than sticking your feet in cold wet paint and then running up and down a long paper mat with pink, red, yellow, blue and purple- painted feet!

Sylvia LOVED it! She thought it was pretty fun that I let her stick her feet in the pink paint!

needless to say, we made quite the mess and it took a while to get our 10 feet cleaned off and then to get the bath tub cleaned out again too! ;)

A couple of nights ago some friends had us over to play broomball! The Olmstead team won!

I am convinced it was all of the extra help from Tovala, Asher and Sylvia!

It was a fun evening AND no one got hurt!

They had even built a little fire to warm up by!