In addition to being tired, now I need to unpack all the packed up craziness from our adventuring... oiy vey. That so did not happen today. Kids didn't get out of pajamas until after lunch. We only went outside in our backyard (kick it up for a new house with a back yard) and it was gorgeous out. And of course because there are like zillion other things to do, we decided to properly decorate the kitchen for Passover... I mean we have a bunch of days left, why waste them. I am thinking this got Jonah thinking too, because then later in the day he insisted on painting... so I made up a project that I had sort of thought about - kinda - sorta... We made these very "creative" seder plates and read a ton of Passover books. The plates came out pretty good and for the first time Vera really enjoyed getting "painted" to make some hand and foot prints-I think we are gonna convert her into a project monster! Our seder plate worked as follows:
- I drew a big circle on a piece of heavy paper
- Jonah made circle prints from little cups - six of them on each plate
- he glued Easter grass in one circle for parsley for each plate
- we did a green hand print for each kid
- we did a brown foot print for each kid
- then Jonah did a sponge paint color mix of red and yellow paint (turned into bright red orangey)
- then he did a sponge paint color mix of red and blue paint (turned into purple)
- then I cut out the green hand print for the lettuce
- and the brown foot print for the shank bone
- I cut a rectangle out of the orangey paint for a brick to symbolize the charoset/mortar
- and a triangle out of the purple paint for the bitter herbs
- Jonah glued everything into the circles and then we added a plastic egg from his Easter basket
Jonah gave me a thumbs up. We ordered in dinner and then did the bedtime routine. Kids went to sleep. All in all I give the day a very very tired thumbs up too...
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| breakfast in my chair in my kitchen! awesome! |
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| mommy I want to do art!! yeaahhh crayons! |
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| we are both happy and well rested... watch out mom! |
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| making a seder plate with circles and paint! thumbs up mom! |
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| whoop whoop, now the glue! |
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| easter grass? cool it looks like parsley! |
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| paint is everywhere-just like I like it! |
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| I am totally getting into this paint idea... it tickles my toes! |
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| purple! |
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| phase one drying during dinner |
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| hand and foot prints... |
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| serious artist assembling the final project |
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| we are fully decorated! |
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| Jonah goes right up to Mr. Pharaoh when he is on the floor and points his finger at him and screams. "LET MY PEOPLE GO!!" and then tackles him... and he is very frustrated that "King God Moses" is sill in the box... |
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