Inactivity due to Activity...

Moving... please standby.  (Oh, and now there's a hurricane coming!!??)  Promise to be back soon. 

The Activities List

Ahhhh, it's been over a week.  I definitely didn't mean to let it go more than a week.  Sorry!  But, here's a quick post to start what will be one of our "features."  This can be a place where dad's share ideas and get ideas for many things, but more specifically, for various activities to engage in that create quality time with your children.  Whether it's short and silly, or longer, more involved and significant projects.  We start with short and silly.

Summer Shadow Time.  Ok, so "summer" is only there because that's what time of year it is, but this is a fun activity to do any time of year to get through some slow nights.  It's pretty simply, shadow puppets and figures on a wall with a flashlight.  However, if you can find a wall that doesn't have a lot of stuff along it and set up a flashlight on the floor that can shine up at it, it can almost create a stage where you and the kids can create life size (and bigger) shadows.  My 5 and 3 year old LOVE this, get so silly and burn tons of energy in a relatively short period of time.  When they stand in front of that light and see their giant sized heads, limbs and bums on the wall, it's quite a riot for them.  They can create shadows as big as the room, which is great for them.  If daddy slips in a hand or foot from behind the light, it can create a giant hand grabbing their shadow, or a huge foot coming down from the ceiling and "squashing the bugs," as we pretended last time.  So, hope you try it sometime.  Simple, free and funny!