A Shocking Activity!

A few weeks ago, Amber and I were talking about how we could help establish better relationships between us and the kids and take advantage of our free time with them.

We decided to try to come up with more activities that we could do with them in our spare moments of the day.

Amber has been doing paper crafts with Aliece and Alayna several times a week after Aliece gets back from school and finishes her chores.

I recently went out and purchased an electricity experiment kit to do activities with Aylee and Johnathan. I found a cool kit at Radio Shack where the components snap together with the type of snaps similar to snaps on clothing. There are 101 projects in the snap kit and it was only about $30.00.

Aylee and Johnathan and I have been having fun doing the experiments. I think I hit the nail on the head with it - especially for Johnny who really gets worked up about the kit - he can't wait until we finish the 101 projects because he wants to drop me out of the picture and design his own electronics that are all in his head.

Aylee also enjoys the kit. She, too, has post 101 project plans - she wants to build a robot.

Anyway, this has been a pretty fun activity set - a very worthwhile investment that gives me a great way to interact with my older kids at a level that suits them well.

(OK...I have a lot of fun with it too!)