free day and a trap

Today was free admission day to the Exploration Works, and Elliott and I needed to get out of the house. We spent a couple hours there, and he had even more fun this time than last time. He went directly for the water display, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work.

He had the most fun upstairs. There was some of the same things, and some new. I think he just likes this because he gets to bang on it and it's loud. Very boy. 

He definitely has mixed feelings toward the bee exhibit. He looked at them from a distance, then left, then came back to look a little closer and told me how they stung his ear, then he left them and came back again. It was funny to watch him get a little more brave each time.  

I didn't let Elliott try this last time, but he was very interested in it this time. So we both strapped the thing on or head. The point is to make the ball move with your mind. The person with the most relaxed mind will move the ball toward the other person and "win". I won every time with almost completely relaxed brain waves, but Elliott's brain was going CRAZY so the ball kept going toward him and he thought he was winning. He loved it. 

This was a new one. He really liked watching the stuff fly up into the tube. 

We both had fun putting these blocks together. The blocks are made to be placed side-by-side to make a track of sorts, then you roll the marble through. They are awesome, and I wanna get some. 

Then, Ethan came home from school, and after his homework was done, we started on his school project for March. A Leprechaun Trap! This was our first school project we have had to do. So we googled "how to catch a Leprechaun", and Ethan picked out his favorite trap idea, and we got to work

He did the hard work, like cutting out the rainbow.  

And the coloring. 

Then we had to make the gold..........yummy. I was going to use the whole candy, but Ethan thought we should just use the wrappers which meant we had to eat the candy. I love the way he thinks.  :) 

So, here's how it works. The gold on the path will lead the Leprechaun to the pot of gold. The cloud is actually a box turned upside down covered in cotton and attached to a string and held up by the pot keeping the string down. When the pot is moved the cloud will fall and catch the Leprechaun.  

What a fun day with my boys.

Happy March!