Friday we enjoyed another lovely day here!! The high was just about 50 and the sun was shining. As soon as everyone was home from school, we headed outside to play. We have had lots of rain and the back yard was really muddy, but the children all had a wonderful time on the driveway drawing all sorts of things. Weston got everyone started by promising awards for the best picture, etc! :) Soon, all 5 were busy coloring up the driveway! Thank goodness we had a lot of chalk!
Even Evan loved coloring. He would mark away on the driveway, telling me what each line of his drawing was. He drew lots of choo choo trains and spiders. And then he went to "help" the others with their pictures. Luckily for me, most of the others were not too upset when their masterpieces got extra coloring. I have such good, easy going children. I am thankful for that! :)
Weston taught Amber how to draw a house. So she went around drawing houses and sunshines all over the place. Weston also showed her how to make a tree too. Then Amber and I had about 5 million rounds of tic-tac-toe.
Aaron drew the biggest house, or rather, castle on the driveway. Weston told him that he got a prize for the biggest piece of art. It is not like there was any kind of tangible prize, just praise and the spoken award. That seemed just fine to everyone.
These posted out of order. This was supposed to be the last one. By the time all was said and done, the entire driveway was full of artwork. I traced the children's body outlines and Weston traced some of his siblings shadows. We stayed out till it got dark. I didn't even care that I had nothing prepared for dinner. It was worth it for the amount of fun that we had enjoyed on the warm, wonderful afternoon. The kids then went in and got the playroom cleaned up spotless while I ordered a pizza for dinner!! :) It was a fun, fun day for all of us!
As you can see here, they drew all the way back in the driveway too. By the end of the afternoon, there were drawings all the way back behind the goal as well.
Days like these make me excited for the Spring time (which really won't be here till April, but I can still dream, right?!) when the days will be warm and the trees will get their leaves again. Like I said before, all in all, it was a perfect kind of day!
3 comments:
Perfect afternoon for sure! And Pizza for dinner...no cooking! What's not to like?!
Good thing you have a BIG driveway for all those kids! :) I love all the pictures. thank you
Looks like the perfect day! In one of those first pictures, Evan reminds me of Taylor Ashman as a little boy when Momma used to babysit for him. I'm glad you guys are having such nice weather! :) Side walk chalking is always super fun, especially when there is so much space to chalk in. :)
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