Ivory Soap

I seen this on pinterest a while ago so I thought I would try it out with the boys. All you need is a bar of Ivory soap and a microwave safe dish. 

Take your bar of soap and cut it in thirds. Then take one of the thirds and cut that in thirds as well. You do not want to put the whole bar of soap in your microwave! So once you have your three little pieces of soap put them on a plate and microwave for abou 30 seconds.

If you have a clear window in your microwave its fun to watch the soap expand. Our door window has a black meshy kind of thing in it so its hard to see though. But when you open the door after the 30 seconds youwill see this!

Doesn't that look like fun? Be careful because the soap will be very hot, even in the middle where all the hot steam is trapped so don't let the kids touch it yet.

After you take it out of the microwave you can put it onto a cookie sheet and used a fork or knife and break the soap up. It will crumble really easy and makes a great playing agent. My boys got out their loaders and dump trucks and went to work hauling the 'snow' around.

Killing the Winter Blues

ITS SPRING! Or so we are told....screw that! This weather sucks and I am ready to bust out of this house and so are the boys. To help a little with our cabin fever I let the boys play in the garage. We took our sleds and filled one with corn and the othe with a blanket to help make the ground a little more comfortable. The boys loved it....and now we have corn all over our garage but it was a nice little escape while it lasted.

Flour = Silence

 If you need a few moments to just breath I suggest busting out the cook sheets, dumping out some flour on each one and say GO! Okay well that wasn't my orginal intention. I wanted to work on letters with my guys but they really don't like that kind of learning. They are boys, they like to learn and explore and well, make a mess! I got one letter drawn in to the flour before they went and dug out their trucks. And so here is where I introduce 30 minutes of SILENCE!

So worth the mess!