Thunderstorms have threatened for most of the day so I nixed the afternoon expedition to the creek. Because of this, I put off SURVIVOR until tomorrow. Instead we caught up with lots of little projects...like learning how to play marbles. All kids have marbles - but how many actually know what to do with them? Well now - my grandkids do.
This morning we went letterboxing and found one hidden on a public trail. Eva stamped her journal with the stamp in the letterbox then added her stamp, name and date to the letterbox's journal. There's a public trail just a short walk from my house, so tomorrow we'll hike the trail and hide our own letterbox then will post the directions online for others to find.
Back at the house, the grandkids learned how to play knucklebones! I grew up in New Zealand where kids played knucklebones, similar to jacks but not quite. Onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies, scatters ones through scatters fours, eggs in the basket, horse in the stable etc. We googled "knucklebones" and found something on youtube called 'five stones' that is similar. The kids have been practicing all afternoon and are getting pretty good at it.
Before camp, I picked up a load of flattened cardboard boxes at the recycle center. This morning - I gave them the boxes and a roll of duct tape with the idea that they make a fort - but they had other things in mind to do today...so the fort is on the back burner....as are all those cardboard boxes that have to go back to the recycle center. Perhaps they're getting too old for forts!
It's the end of day three and we're still going strong! Two more days to go - then I start thinking about Camp Sweetie Pie 2011. This year has given me some good ideas....
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