Black Week

Our BLACK week

MONDAY

Levi and I colored a white piece of paper with white and yellow crayons (originally it was going to be just white but Levi didn't like not being able to see what he was coloring so we added yellow), then he painted over with homemade black watercolor paint {recipe here}

after it dried we had a black night sky with stars!

{although this picture doesn't show it, the paint turned out a little green; maybe because we used it half dry/half wet}

TUESDAY

Baa-baa black sheep have you any wool

yes sir, yes sir three bags full

one for my master, one for my dame

and one for the little boy that lives down the lane

I mixed water, paint, and dish soap in a cup. Used a pin to poke holes in a straw {to avoid sucking up) and instructed Levi to blow in the cup. As he did I laid a white piece of paper over the bubbles.

HE LOVED IT!!!

and it was a HUGE MESS!

You can't really tell from the pictures but it was all over the table, and all up and down him!

But I think it turned out really cute!

WEDNESDAY

I cut sections of three out of an egg carton, Levi painted them black and we added googly eyes!

And of course we had to act like bats, and dress like batman! I threw a blanket over our table, Levi hung by his feet like a bat, and decided he wanted to be a fruit bat and ate fruit from our play kitchen set {so glad he didn't want to be a human eating monster bat!}

THURSDAY

Hey diddle, diddle

the cat and the fiddle

the cow jumped over the moon

the little dog laughed to see such fun

and the dish ran away with the spoon

While Levi worked on gluing BLACK cow spots onto a paper plate...

Owen used a spoon to stir up the scraps on his plate...

and I made a moon out of another paper plate {if you plan more ahead than I did you can make the cow and moon out of one paper plate}, and then we jumped over the moon while listening to the song

FRIDAY

The itsy bisty spider went up the water spout

down came the rain and washed the spider out

out came the sun and dried up all the rain

and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

I made a 'water spout' out a two plastic cups by cutting out the bottoms and taping them together.

Levi had a plastic spider we tied to a piece of fishing wire.

And we filled my water bottle with 'rain'.

We sang the song, while taking turns pulling the spider up the 'spout' and dumping the 'rain'

Poor little spider probably thought he was in Seattle! :-)