We made homemade 'moon dough'. You can find out how to make it too over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. We substituted the baby oil and used vegetable oil instead. The baby oil may smell nicer, but I have curious snackers and baby oil can be fatal if ingested. Sure enough, two out of three of my sneaky snackers tried the 'moon dough'! We started in the garage but that started to get a little messy..
So to the front yard we went! The kids took turns tossing in balls of different weights and sizes to demonstrate how the craters on the moon were formed. I would suggest to double the recipe for this, because we used a big pan and our 'moon dough' was not very deep. Still, it got the idea across! 'Moon dough' was a hit!
Free play in the 'moon dough'!
We made moon phase cards out of black construction paper and white crayon. Then we played a speed round of "Guess Which Phase" with the cards. Bear caught on very quickly!
We made moon cookies after we read 'The Moon Might Be Milk' by Lisa Shulman. Loved the book and the recipe for the moon cookies, they were delicious!!!
Bug eating his moon!
Bear working on eating his moon through the phases.
New moon! ;] Need another cookie!
Drawing an 'X' on the moon map so we can take a trip to the moon.
All set for the moon in 3.. 2.. 1..
BLAST OFF!!!!
Exploring the moon in super exaggerated steps. Then it was time to head back to the space ship to head back to Earth.. but not until we got through a...
METEOR SHOWER!!!
OH NO!!!
AAAHH!!!!
This was such a hit with the boys. They laughed and laughed! I caught them playing again later on another voyage to the moon. Win! ;]
See you again next week for a re-cap of our Ll Leaf week!
