Learning with Science

   Beniah loves lists, especially when he gets to choose what to put on it.  A few months ago, I made him a magnetic To Do List that has chore and learning activity choices.  I've become lackadaisical in enforcing the list over the summer and decided to reintroduce it this morning.  This time around, I am choosing the chore, so bedroom toys actually get picked up.

  One of the new learning activities is science and since Sid the Science Kid is a favorite of Beniah's, we went to study nature.  The boys each got a plastic bag and wondered around the yard collecting leaves.

 

Once we got enough leaves gathered, we went inside and began placing them onto the sticky side of contact paper.

It is very important to wear a hood during this process.  Should a mother remove said hood, the world will suddenly implode.

The boys were very excited about the finished product.  I ended up having to iron the leaf pages after they were in bed because the contact paper started to pull away from the leaves.