Cousin Camp - day 2

As I told you yesterday, it was a night of little sleep, but Cassie was still raring to go!

Grandpa made pancakes for breakfast.

The girls all said they were good!

The tie dye shirts they made the day before were done and turned out cute!

We were in the back yard finding things to make nature prints with and Alaina spotted something.

It was a tiny little toad!

We painted art paper with a mix of isopropanol alcohol and tumeric. They we found flowers and leaves that would lay flat and left it out in the sun.  It had to be outside for several hours so we went on another adventure.

We went to a zoo about 45 minutes from our house.

The baby goats were so cute!

They each got to feed the giraffes.

Kangaroos!

They had a section with animatronic dinosaurs. Cassie was so excited!  She said "I thought all the dinosaurs died lots of years ago."  And "Look!  Real, live dinosaurs!"  We didn't tell her they weren't real, we'll let her parents do that...

Ruby and Cassie.

These are African Rhea birds. We all loved the babies who were just running all over.

The rhinoceros were huge!

We had lunch there and soon it was time to go home.

The prints we left in the sun, had to be dipped in a baking soda solution to set the color, Here's what they looked like when they dried.

While we waited for the prints to dry, they had one last visit to the camp store. I forgot to show you the camp store yesterday, but here it is. I found some old fashioned candy, like candy necklaces, wax bottle candy, pop rocks, suckers, along with some little toys, bracelets, granola bars and fruits snacks.  I had put play money for them to use, in the bags they got when they came.  They had 2 store visits the first day, and then this one before they went home. The store was a big hit! 

On the way home, we stopped at the local ice cream shop. Then we brought some tired girls home and Bob and I went home and recuperated. We were tired, but we sure had fun!

Cousin Camp

I told you all we were doing something fun last week - Cousin Camp!

I had seen people who did this with their grandkids, like my friend Miss Merry, and thought it would be fun to do. 

After getting the dates approved by the moms, I sent these invites in the mail.

I made a sign for their room, got the beds ready and made little welcome bags for each of them.

In the bags were stickers, a flower bracelet, a few notepads, glow in the dark temporary tattoos and a flower t-shirt.

Here are our happy campers, by the front door welcome sign.

I think tie dye is mandatory for camp, right?  So, we started by making tie dye t-shirts.

After that, we did some air dry sculptures.

I found some archeology eggs, that the kids chiseled away to find some different types of rocks inside.

Cassie with the rock she found.

We went to the park for a scavenger hunt.  But - we barely started and it began to rain hard. This is ironic because we've been praying for rain for 6 weeks!  So we needed it, but really?  We went home and played this game...

It's a marble balancing game and we had fun with it.

We had fun making water slime with sea charms in it.

It quit raining so we headed back to the park for the scavenger hunt. I had found print off sheets with things to find in nature, and one was an easier one with pictures for Cassie.

This park has a beautiful suspension bridge.

Grandpa grilled hot dogs for supper, and we had finger jello and watermelon with them - good camp food!

After supper we watched a cute movie about a dog named Ruby. (We watched this one with Terri down in Florida and knew the kids would like it.)
We also had S'mores; another camping essential.

Then it was bedtime. Cassie has a hard time sleeping away from home, so it was a night of not much sleep. I thought she would be so tired and once asleep, would sleep well.  But that was not the case. She ended up sleeping with me and I was woken frequently with questions like "Grandma - is it morning yet?"  "Grandma - what is your favorite animal?"  "Grandma - I can't find my stuffy",  and as soon as the sun was peeking out - "Grandma - it's morning!"   We had to remind her that her cousins weren't ready to get up yet...

And that was the beginning of day 2.  I'll tell you more tomorrow.

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