Backyard Noisemaker

A failed on taking pictures as I assembled this one so if you want to know how you'll have to read a lot of text....

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I headed out to lowe's and went in search of the cheapest 3" PVC I could find.  

This is Charlotte pipe

I bought:

1 10ft 3in pipe

3 3" 90 degree elbows

2  3" 2 way (both shaped a little different)

5 3" 45 degree elbows

I came up with a fun way to put them together and then sprayed with a Valspar plastic primer and outdoor Valspar spray paint. 

I decided that I didn't want to glue them together in case I decided to change it up at some point so instead I attached the contraption to a 4X4 cedar post with a screw at the top and a screw at the bottom.  

Mostly this is all about your creativity!  Put them together however works best for you!  

Then drop pebbles, water, sand, dirt, sticks, and whatever other fun objects you can find down the tubes and see what they sound like!

Shooting Stars

We kicked off Space Week by decorating Evin's room with glow in the dark stars!  He was very excited to help!  Lots of oohs and aaahs!  

Then we followed it up with a really fun shooting star game.  

I cut stars out of foam and attached them to coffee stirrers.  

We practiced our fine motor skills and put the stars' stirrers in to a straw. 

Then he was suppose to BLOW!!!!

He tried really hard but I realized he was biting the end of the straw so he started just swinging the straw and the star would fling out the other end......IMPROVISATION!  I love it!

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Strider Bike Party

I'm a little behind on my posts but this was one of the most fun activities yet! 

We started assembling our obstacle course while Evin was napping the day of the party.  We used 1/2 in dowels and 3/4 in poly flex irrigation tubing to build our bike wash.  Then taped blue crepe paper to the arches.  

For our weave poles we used 3/4 in dowels and pool noodles!  

Then there was the hoop of fire.... we used a 3/4" male to male fitting and the 3/4" poly flex tubing.  Then we used colored electrical tape and taped around the hoop and taped the hoop to 1/2" dowels.  

Some side walk chalk to map out the beginning of the course.  

Karl built this awesome ramp!

When we hit the snacks!  These are delicious!

1) Make rice crispies according to directions

2) roll out of sheet

3)melt chocolate and spread over rice crispies

4) spread peanut butter over that

5) roll up and throw in the freezer

6) cut in to delicious wheel snacks

Pinwheel pasta with italian dressing

Banana wrapped in peanut butter and jelly cover tortillas

Then make you jello in hollowed out oranges, let set then slice!

Bring on the striders!

Strider or balance bikes are awesome bikes with NO pedals!  Thanks to Evin's aunt Lisa and a trip to the park at Thanksgiving in San Jose we found out about these awesome things and Evin got one for Christmas!  

The idea is they learn how to balance before they have to pedal. 

Evin will already pick his feet up and coast down the ramp and sometimes through the house!  

Check them out!