Adventure Playground - painting things

Because Berkeley really is a small town (especially if you have kids) we ran into two of Molly's best buddies at the Adventure Playground. They played, painted, and hammered for hours. Here they are painting. Trying it out on everything. Yes, you can paint the dirt. It doesn't really look like much though.

Adventure Playground - building things

One of the many attractions at the Adventure Playground (besides the Trolley and playing on the crazy structures) is the opportunity to add to the playground. Kids can turn in 5 pieces of trash, 5 nails, 5 splintered pieces of wood, or 1 "Mr. Dangerous" (a piece of wood with a nail sticking out) to get one tool in return. The tools are either: a saw, a hammer w/ 5 nails, or a paintbrush with some paint. There are almost no other rules - the kids go from there depending on their interests, age, and abilities.

In the past the girls have focused on the painting - there's always a moment of silence when they figure out that they can paint on *anything*. Today, they both enjoyed painting (I'll post pictures of that soon), but they also both got into hammering. Clara really focused on figuring out how to drive that durn nail. Molly had more vision - she gathered the pieces to make a sailboat, then a clock. She also took the time to thoughtfully find a place for each of her creations in the playground.

Adventure Playground - playing

Snack time with the preschool pals; balancing rope; clara; and molly's first ride on the trolley!

Hammering at Adventure Playground

Hammering for the joy of hammering. And painting. And playing on the crazy play stuff at Adventure playground. Beautiful day!

Morning fun at the bakery

Molly's "Home News"

On Monday morning Molly's class gets a chance to talk about what they did over the weekend, draw a picture, and do some writing about it. Here's what Molly drew and wrote this week. It says:

"I went to the snow with my frends it was a to level"

(I went to the snow with my friends. It [the house] was a two level [two story house].)

The picture shows the house, the hills, and the car. Those are icicles hanging off the eves of the house.

Snow Pictures

Lot's of snow pictures below... you may need to click "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page to see them all. Enjoy!

Snow Parents

Snow Friends

The O'Jaggars on the Big Trees hike.

Snow Kids

Stopping for a break on the Big Trees hike, sharing yummy snacks.

Staying Warm

Candle-lit dinner, scraped together on the first night from leftovers that could be eaten cold since the stove was not yet hot enough to be helpful.

Warming up by the stove the next morning.

Prius' in the snow

Our pair of Prius' (Pri'i? Priusi?) did an excellent job on the roads... once they were plowed. (view of the O'Jaggar Prius from within the Zanklin Prius)

Snowy Driveway, Snowy Road

No power and no way our Prius' were going to navigate these roads. But our sleds did a lovely job! And once we found the firewood (under several feet of snow) we were just fine.