Last week was Owen's spring break, so I had both kids home with me all day. We had a whole lot of fun playing together. We discovered that they both really enjoyed playing with wooden blocks, coloring, playing outside, and playing with lego duplos. They got along a lot better than I thought they would, and it gave me hope for a good summer to come.
Both of the kids really like doing art projects, so while MayLynn had fun with her crayons and coloring books, Owen tackled a big project that took us a few days to finish. Owen has been very interested in dinosaurs, so we made a dinosaur world. First we went to the store and found some small dinosaur figures. We brought them home and researched what types of dinosaurs they were and determined that most of them were dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period.
Using that, Owen decided that his world needed a desert, grass land, water, a forest, and a volcanic mountain. We created a plan, made some salt dough, and then shaped the dough into the dinosaur's world. We even added some coniferous plant cuttings and rocks to make it more "realistic." After it dried for a few days, we brought it to life with paint and a little bit of sand for the desert. While Owen was doing his painting MayLynn got to try her hand at watercolors for the first time.
After the paint dried, the dinosaur world was able to come alive. Owen set it all up and took pictures to show how good everything looked. MayLynn snuck in once or twice to play with it too, and I was able to snap a couple of pictures; but to keep the peace we then moved to the floor to play with the big dinosaurs to keep Owen's model world intact.
Dinosaurs can make quick work of a block city, so Owen joined in to help with the building and to help make it a very fun conclusion to a week of fun and dinosaurs.
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