Iwakuni Family Photographer / Dinosaur Eggs

The same day we did the mammoth ice sculpture we also made dinosaur eggs.

Directions with much better photos here.

 Yes.. I know they are always dirty.  I take them out of the bath and they head straight for dirt.  I have given up. 

My kids love eggs so this was a win win.. and a must do. 

Reason number one, two, three, and hundred for doing these messy projects.... Happiness.  My crabbiest kid is smiling.  His toothless smiles melt me.

And since we are talking Dino's this photo melts me too.

You can click this link to buy it (and not my photo)

For now this one hangs on my walls.

Iwakuni Family Photographer / My Life

This was so much fun and unfortunately really quick.  They wanted to do again and again ;)

Click this link for directions.

Iwakuni Family Photographer / My Life

After doing the little ice sculpture we decided to do a "BIG" one.  

The night before we frozen a dozen or so items.

Some ideas:

Balloons filled with toy, glitter, fabric, food coloring, etc.

Plastic hollow toys to freeze ice into different shapes.

Ice cube trays and make each square a different color.

Then we woke up. The boys had a contest to see who could hold the balloon ice the longest.

It was a cold and painful contest... Kennon one.  He is psycho.

We unwrapped the balloons and placed all the frozen goodies into a big container.

This is good to do when your freezer is empty.. I was lucky and needed to go to the store the next day.

Add toys, bottle caps, legos, anything you really don't care about.

Let the kids play for a while.

add more water.

Freeze until the next morning.  I forgot to take pictures of it when it was complete.  The kids were outside all day pushing it, sitting on it,  and who knows what.  It took almost 24 hours for it to thaw on a rainy day.  We will definitely do this again.  

I sort of got the idea to get this crazy HERE

Iwakuni Family Photographer / My Life

We were learning about dinosaurs and the ice age.  So I froze some of their toys and then we waited to see what happened.  Ken (3) said they were stuck forever and Jack (4) said it would take 20 hours.  Well in the humid rain and a toss to the ground from Kennon... the toys were free in two hours.  It was so much fun we made a huge one a few days later.  Pictures to come.

Here is the ice sculpture before it melted.

Cat-Dog came to check things out.

or to get some love.

about an hour later... it was actually raining hard here.

Iwakuni Japan Photographer / Blue Glue

This was a fun little project we did and I thought I would share:

All you do is mix food coloring and Elmer's glue and shake, shake, shake.

Braylen was excited to learn how to spell Blue and Glue ;)