Ocean work

The shelves at home have been a bit neglected by me since William was born I think I've switched them over twice :(  But we had some ocean work out for a while. I collected a bunch of coloring sheets from the Twisty Noodle with ocean animals, and found other inspiration that I collected on my Ocean board on Pinterest. This is what the shelves looked like.

Make a jellyfish, fish pattern work, shell stamp, play doh with lobster cutter, ocean stickers with # cards, ocean puzzles

And some ocean-y books.

Another tray that was out but rotated in was a water dropper work that Emma loved!  Basically it's some blue water, an old medicine dropper, two suction cup bath things, and a cloth to wipe up the spills.  A HUGE hit!

Waiting her turn :)

The fish pattern work was a mild hit with Emma, not so much with Ada.  That's okay though.

Ada mostly did the puzzles which I have no pictures of.  But here's one with William and a half completed puzzle in the background.

We made some little sailboats out of some corks, toothpicks, and foam sheets.  We floated them around and decided they were the perfect size for our fairy figures.  Win, win!

Counting 3 corks

It floats!

Adding fairies

 And all the while, there was William being awesome.

Fairy Play

It's been a struggle to keep up with this blog I must admit.  I wanted to share a few pics from the fairy garden from the summer.  Most of these photos are from August.  The girls have turned a little corner of the lawn into a fairy garden with glass gems and silk flowers from the dollar store and a little zen garden set I found at Savers- win!

The girls loved it but I could never have expected how much.  Almost every day Ada is out there raking, shoveling, arranging stones and creating little stories for the fairies.  One day she decided there needed to be a sign, so she whipped this little beauty up with some Sharpies.

I'm sure I saw the idea to make a little house someplace, but neglected to pin, sorry.  We used a container from the recycling, shells from Florida, and mulch, bark, and rocks from the yard.  Ada calls it the tornado room for the fairies.

The garden changes daily and is currently decorated with chalk covered rocks :)

Ada found a newly emerged cicada which was very exciting.

One Pinterest activity we did was a cool texture painting activity from "Growing a Jeweled Rose"