Making lemonade

On our last free-from-school-Friday of the winter break, we had planned a trip to the zoo as a last hurrah. Unfortunately, the weather didn't get our memo and upon rain fall this morning, plans needed to change. The kids were all geared up to go to the zoo, and Morgan to spend time with her new BFF, Kaitlyn. So, we invited Kristin and Kaitlyn over here to play.

The girls were having a hard time getting going on playing, Morgan wanting to hang around the adults and Kaitlyn wanting Morgan to come play, so after snack, I suggested an activity. Kaitlyn and Morgan said they wanted to make stick puppets, but we only had one Popsicle stick left. I remembered that my mom had given Morgan a sock puppet kit and we had some of the puppets left to make. The girls had so much fun, including Kristin, had so much fun making their puppets. They made cows and Kristin made a super hero, which she plans to use as an example for the Daisy project next week. Yippee!

Since we had both packed lunches for the zoo, we pulled out a blanket and had our zoo picnic minus the real zoo. We let the kids pick out stuffed animals to put around us like we were at the zoo. There was a little drama over the exact placement of the animals by a certain control-freak-bossy-five-year-old-who's-name-starts-with-an-M, but the girls seemed excited by the thought. Even Bennett got into the action, picking a tiger to put in our "zoo".

While I'm sure we all would have had more fun at the REAL zoo, this was a good alternative on a rainy day. Looky there......we made lemonade! :)