Artsy Craftsy

One week in and I can conclusively say: I love summer vacation! I wondered sometimes, at my desk, if summer vacation would really be a vacation with two tinies under age 3 to mind. Answer: yes. Yes it is. I have breakfast, I play, I engage in nap wars, but it's all still recreation (yes, recreational war. are you with me? Good).

We are having a good old time, soaked in sunscreen and sweat, trooping around Blacksburg and playing creatively at home, too. I've got a Wholesome Summer To-Do list, and I can scratch a couple of things off of that now. This week we made homemade bubbles (below) and homemade modeling clay (to follow) using recipes from this blog. Special thanks to Bekea for pointing it out to me a couple months back!

All you need for the homemade bubbles is corn starch, baking soda, water, and liquid dish soap.

The best part is experimenting with different household materials to see which makes the best (and biggest) bubbles. We had a few other items to try, but once we discovered the cookie cutter approach we got kind of distracted:

You have to keep mixing the corn starch so it doesn't settle.

In general, the smaller ones and the most complex shapes (Halloween witch, not Valentine's day heart) made the best bubbles.

Grendel is dying to join the fun.

I'm a bit too excited about this day.

The small, complex shapes gave us some cool Siamese sibling bubbles.

Literally hours of fun. And no, it didn't get old. I'll show the results from our modeling clay experiment when I get a bit more screen time (hard to come by these days!).

This week we plan to check softball games, hiking, swimming and face painting off our list. This is empirically way more fun than Pinning about summer.