Eruptions in the Kitchen

The kids really scored with Christmas gifts this year. The theme this year was create. Building blocks seems to be the biggest hit but they also got a lot of other construction type things that you can recreate new cool things every time. One example is the Dragster kit Brayden got. It's just like kinects but bigger pieces that comes with wheels and you put them all together to create race cars. He's made dozens of designs already and then drives them around testing out how they do. I love it. It keeps them busy and active. Ryan also got a 'creation' gift from Santa this year, a volcano kit. It came with 3 volcano molds and the goods to make it erupt. Brayden and Sydney each picked a volcano and then read about their volcano in the little information book that came with the kit. It also came with these great science lab type goggles for them to wear which of course the kids LOVED!. They mixed the mold and poured it into their volcano's and waited and waited for a whole day for the volcano's to dry. Ryan was nice enough to share with all the kids so they each were able to do their own mixing and pouring. One was really tall, one was really fat and one was the 'baby' which naturally became Madisons volcano. No fighting, which is always a bonus!

After the volcano's were dried they each painted one however they liked. This was really just to buy mom time to quickly get to the grocery store and buy the missing ingredients for the volcano's to erupt. Once all the necessary ingredients were available they erupted their volcano's.