Color Hunt, a shiny evening

Madelyn told Luke, "You look like Santa Claus!"  while they made bubble beards.

If they ever get married this photo is going in their wedding slideshow!

Our color hunt wednesday evening went very well!  We cut an egg carton in half, one side for Madelyn, one for Luke.  Then I colored the bottoms of the egg holes six different colors:  red, green, blue, brown, yellow, and black.  Then we set out on our evening walk, keeping our eyes peeled for colors that we may be able to put in our box.  The city is in our debt; we picked up a lot of garbage.  I think if we do this color hunt again, we will wait until some more flowers and plants are blooming and growing.  Manitoba in early Spring is not full of color.  We did it, however!  We found a pencil (yellow), a stick (brown), grass (green), dirt (black), a broken bicycle tail light (red), and a rubber band (blue).  Then the children played at the park until the sun was nearly setting, and we headed home in a spectacular shine of sunset.

The children warmed up with some hot chocolate and the adults with some tea, and then the kids asked to take a bath...?  So we put them in the bath and visited over our tea for fifteen minutes without being disrupted by too much splashing!  All in all it was a lovely way to spend an evening.  There are so many fun things to do with Luke as he gets older, and I thank No Time For Flashcards for some great ideas, like the color hunt!  And I thank my Mom, for telling me about No Time For Flashcards.  It is sure encouraging to have resources like my Mom (a kindergarten teacher), and blogs like this, when I'm feeling brain dead as a parent.