Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A Snowy Weekend with Noodles

As I sit at the table typing and looking out the window all that I see is white.  Our area was hit with a lot of snow this weekend.  Places in our area set a record for the most snow in one day!  In our town we got 20 some inches on Saturday.  So for sure we bundled up the three boys and went outside to play in it, right?  Well, we didn't.  I am surprised to say that they didn't even ask!  This is really surprising since Caleb is really excited to build a snowman.  He's talked about it constantly since winter hit.  More snow is coming today and tomorrow, so I'm sure I'll be braving the cold later this week.

Noodle Fun!
So what did we do with our snowy weekend?  We colored noodles.  Yep.  That's right.  We colored noodles and then we played with them.  We took different shapes of noodles, put them in a bag with food coloring and shook.  Then we let our noodles dry over nap time.  When the boys woke up.....ta da!   Colored Noodles!  The boys had so much fun playing with them.  They sorted noodles by colors and shapes, made patterns, turned them into pictures, built racetracks, threw them in the air to make rain and did numerous other creative things with them.  It was fun, creative, easy, inexpensive, simple to clean up and the boys loved it!

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