Summer is painful around my house. My girls are home from school, but my work doesn’t stop. This means that my kids are practically feral from June until August. Nell doesn’t have anything on us.
My 7-year-old is particularly hard to handle during the summer. I mean, she can only watch so many hours of tween reruns on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel before she turns into a zombie. (If I never see another episode of Suite Life on Deck, it will be too soon.) She’s an artsy kid, but around my house “arts and crafts” is just another phrase for “I’ll have to clean all of this crap up when she’s done,” so I try to avoid it. Coming up with other “clean” stuff for her to do is quite difficult.
Yesterday, my friend Angie introduced me to a fabulous blog, Ashley Ann Under the Sycamore, where I stole the idea for this activity and post. The gist of the activity is this: give a camera to your kid and send them on a ABC photo safari. (Why didn’t I think of this?!?!?) The 7yo was ALL over it, and here’s a sample of what she captured during her safari:
(I gave her extra points for the double “s” (and for getting the 3yo to participate, too)!)
Yep, this kept her entertained for a whole 36 minutes. But, hey, at least she wasn’t watching another bad episode of Phineas and Ferb.
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