Photo Scavenger Hunt

About three years ago, Zak and I wrote a bunch of family activity ideas on scraps of paper, which went into the Winnie the Pooh and Piglet cookie jar Uncle Cohen gave us. We don't do the activities especially often, so we still have dozens left. Last week, we picked "photo scavenger hunt" from the jar, and decided to make it our family home activity for the week.

We wrote down several items we expected to find around the neighborhood, and split into groups of two. Finding a flag was a little tricky (although Zak reminded me that most mailboxes have flags). The hardest item was sidewalk chalk. We had drawn with ours earlier in the day, so I didn't think anything of it when we wrote the list, but it rained this morning, and there aren't many kids in our neighborhood, so Daddy and Mr C ended up using the art we drew on the upstairs neighbor's portion of the driveway, and Miss V and I drew some art on our next-door neighbor's sidewalk. (We had a rule that the pictures couldn't be of our yard.)

The boys beat Miss V and me home, so they won. Everyone had fun, and we got some exercise along the way (vehicles were not allowed). Definitely worth doing, to explore our neighborhood from another perspective.

White wooden fence

Zak said it's wooden on the inside

Fire hydrant

Animal (real or decorative)

Graffiti

Purple flowers

Fruit trees

Flag

Sidewalk chalk

A pattern

Let's Go Fly a Kite

From the mystical slightly-cracked Winnie the Pooh cookie jar, we drew from the list of family activities, "Fly Kites." At the dollar store we found Miss Barbie and Mr Raphael Ninja Turtle. Since we have houses and trees around our place, we walked down the street to a church with a big grassy field. For the first while we had some good breezes, but slowly the the wind died. It had been long enough for me that I had to relearn how to properly launch the kite. I think the kids had an enjoyable "first."