Go Team USA

I have tried and failed many times this year to do a seasonal/ themed project ahead of time.  Here I will tout a success.  First thing you should know, is that I love the Olympics.  Not sure why, but I have always enjoyed watching the games on television and I am greatly looking forward to watching the opening ceremonies next week.  My hope is that I can convince Ada that they are wicked cool so she is excited enough to watch them with me a bit.

I decided our front window artscape (I don't know how else to say that, but as I wrote that you can rest assured I rolled my own eyes at myself) would be the best place.  Ada and I looked at some images of the Olympic rings, we talked about what the games are, and we watched some footage of gymnastics and of Michael Phelps from Beijing.  She was on board.

While Ada was watching a show "by herself, like a big kid" Emma and I got the rings drawn out on butcher paper with pot lids.

We had lunch and since I was feeling in the spirit, I made as much of a USA themed lunch as I could come up with.

Eggs (Ada request) with star toast, red tomatos from the garden, and a blueberry smoothie

Luckily Ada woke up first and we got right to work on the rings.  We looked at some Google images then she decided to do blue first.  We gathered blue materials from the art supplies and got to work.

Emma woke up and ate snack in the kitchen while we worked on yellow...

Then red...

Ada started on green...

Emma finished her snack and they both worked on the second green ring...

Finally the black ring.  We don't have a ton of different black things, so we used some black duct tape to mix it up...

Let them dry.  Cut them out (Ada cut the outside and I cut the inside).  Glue the pieces together.  Since we wanted a mirror image we glued red to blue and yellow to green.  Cut a slit in each ring and put them together while looking at an image on Google to check our work.  Ada and I taped the rings back together where they had ben cut.  Then taped it in the window.

The finished product is one of my favorite things we've done!

Sorry about the glare, but you get the idea :)