Creativity Abounds...

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The sun is shining, the air is cold, the ground is dry, the wind is howling.  We have been inventing ways to keep ourselves busy indoors.  One of the coolest activities we've done is to dye play silks with Kool-Aid and vinegar.  Depending on what flavors you use, this can make your house smell very fruity, but is a great way to use a non-toxic dye for kids' toys.  It takes about six packets of Kool-Aid to dye a large silk square and three packets to do a smaller one.  Some of the colors are pretty potent though, and will stain your hands and clothes if you aren't careful.  

My husband spent yesterday in the garage putting together a soccer goal out of PVC pipe.  I couldn't figure out how he was going to make the net and imagined myself trying to weave something.  But he was very resourceful and used the cargo netting from our car top rack.  It's perfect!

Finally, today was puppet theater day, apparently.  So we made puppets out of tube socks, Styrofoam balls, lemonade cans, and dowels.  Oh yeah, and paint.  Lots of paint!

All the "silkies" drying!

New soccer goal!  The net is from our cargo rack!

Puppets!