Since It's Summer....

     How fabulous has this weather been lately? So crazy for March!

     Since today is the first day of summer spring, and it has been so amazingly nice out this week, we spent the day yesterday playing outside. A lot.
     I wanted to try this sidewalk-paint-water-balloon activity I saw with Laura. As it turns out, this is an activity to be prepped before the toddler gets involved, as it was a fairly frustrating process trying to fill the balloons, and Laura lost interest rather quickly due to her not really being able to help... As mentioned in the link, the result was not very "painty", but more of a watered down, faint final product. I only made eight balloons to begin with because it was too hard to try and make them while Laura was impatiently waiting. There ended up being a lot of food colouring splatter around my kitchen, and the eight balloons went pretty quickly.

 

     She immediately demanded more, so we went inside to make more. I was pretty sure she just liked splatting them on the pavement, so I didn't bother trying to put colour/ corn starch in the second batch. Much less frustrating for me, and I'm sure equally fun for her. Win.

      Again, this batch didn't last too long, but she had fun...

     We tried the sidewalk paint in another form, one in which I could control the consistency/ colour more easily:

     And Laura had fun just using it with a paintbrush and/or dumping it on the pavement.

     It looked pretty when it dried...

So there you have it: our fun, outdoor activities to try. Happy First Day of Spring!

(there is a robin in our tree) :)