Faulty Towers

What's there to do on a soggy Tuesday afternoon? Dustin and Emmett had it in mind to inject a little Keva chaos! We challenged those able and willing to some heats of compelling competition. It all started with who could build the tallest tower in five minutes. Towers tumbled and were rebuilt within the five minutes. We repeated the heat to see if the children learned anything from the first round. The excitement (and number of participants) only grew as we introduced rounds with "best house in five minutes" and "strongest tower in five minutes." After this, Emmett injected further Keva chaos by introducing the "Revenge Block", one block per team that could be thrown at an opponent's tower at any time during the heat. Most teams chose to use their Revenge Block near the end of the heat, aimed at the leading competition. We doubled the time to ten minutes to see what chaos would ensue. Winners of each heat were rewarded with Timbits, courtesy of Cole V's birthday. After the competitions were complete, Emmett and Dustin conceived of future challenges for our enthusiastic builders. Stay tuned for further Keva chaos...

Cheers,
Dustin

One of the candidates for tallest tower.

Attempting to build the strongest tower.

Devastating!

Mother's Day Flower Pot Art Extravaganza

In celebration of Mother's Day, Sara E., the kids, and I got together to make some cute flower pot Mother's Day cards! The pot is rather difficult to draw so Sara and I had drawn the shape of the pots on construction paper for the kids to cut out. After cutting out their pots and the flowers they had drawn, they added text and assembled their cards. My favourite part was watching them write their adorable little messages to their mom in their own handwriting. We even added a row of grass to the top of the pot decoration. After, we attached the flowers to a green string. We then attached part of the string to the pot and glued the sides of the pot together. Finally, we gathered the flowers into a pile and put them in the pot "envelope" for mom to pull out. I hope the moms that had received them liked them!

Happy Mother's Day!

Sara and Monica

Monica lending a helping hand.

Adding flowers.

Assembling the stem.

Happy Mother's day Mom!