Spooktacular

October was a pretty good month full of lots of after school activities.

This was Bo's box. It's orange and black rice with a pack of Halloween stuff from the Dollar Tree.

Amelia's is the same just with a different package of stuff.

I took a few of the toys and some of the rice to make an I-Spy bottle.

I put it in their activity bags.

We also had pumpkin spice play dough.

Bo requested file folder games.

I made the pumpkins using a 2" paper punch. Then I taped the math problems down and drew in the vines.

The solutions were just laminated and put in a ziplock on the back.

I found another one for Halloween.

I taped down all the pots and filled the bag with google eyes. Each pot has to have X number of eyes.

One night I was there late. We roasted hot dogs and s'mores over a fire.

After a bath we watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

One the nice days we headed outside to burn off some energy.

On the last day of the month we made haunted house brownies.

Bo's

Amelia's

We basically hang out at the kitchen table. I do homework, while the kids do their boxes and bags. I change the box each month. I switch out the stuff they played with from their bags each time.

BAM Camp-School

BAM Camp school week was probably the most fun I've ever had particularly the last day. 

Monday we painted our olympic medals from last week.

Amelia made a maraca. She put bead in a plastic bottle and colored a toilet paper tube. I taped it together and voila a maraca. 

Bo and I made a bus. He painted and I glued and cut. Paint 3 fat and 5 regular popsicle sticks. Cut an inch off of 4 of the regular ones. Glue them evenly spaced on the full one. Glue the fat ones on the bottom. I like the one on top of the others, but it's up to you. I cut out black paper wheels and his pictures and glued/taped them on. I put 2 button magnets on the back. I thought it was too cute.

  

Bo's box was shredded paper, magnetic letters, a Lincoln Log school, a Lego bus and clothes pin students and a teacher.

It was a hit, even though I had doubt going in.

Amelia's box was water beads, scoops, and bowls. I kept a close eye on her, but she never actually put any in her mouth despite my assumption.

So grown up.

Tuesday they had family in town, but Wednesday we played with the boxes again.

We also made cake batter dip. Take a pack of Funfetti cake mix, 1 1/2 Cups of vanilla yogurt, and 2 Cups of whipped cream and mix. It's good with animal crackers, graham crackers, or fruit.

Thursday we went all out. Bo had earned beads all summer for doing various things. He got orange for doing his journal page. It was a worksheet with his Spanish words on it. It was matching, coloring, tracing or just like a dictionary with pictures. He got blue for eating without a fight. He got yellow for FOB without a fight. He's "too big" for naps so he had to lay Flat On Bed for 30 minutes. If he was still up I would let him get up and play. He got green for cleaning his room. He got red for knowing his 5 Spanish words. He got black for good behavior. Each Thursday I awarded the beads. He had to have 5 of a color to get the associated reward. He did for everything except orange.

Red was for spray painted hair.

Green was ice cream/popsicles for breakfast.

Blue was shaving cream on the trampoline.

Yellow was a trip to the Dollar Tree to pick out any toy they wanted.

Black was a water balloon fight.

We had a food fight too.

Then we went swimming. That's Amelia going off the diving board!

Pool selfie

Bo's selfie

Here's our video.

Bo's Spanish Words:

Escuela- School

Maestra- Teacher

Estudiante- Student

Tarea- Homework

Mochila- Backpack

BAM Camp- Olympics

This is the next to last week of BAM Camp. :(

It was olympics week. Bo's box was rice, laminated olympians, gold medals from the Dollar Tree, and pipe cleaner olympic rings.

Amelia had shaving cream.

Monday I made a balance board. I used 2 inch PVC pipe and a board I found in the basement. I covered the board in duct tape. I cut pool noodles to fit the ends so the landing didn't hurt people or floors.

Tuesday we went to the park and worked out on the exercise equipment.

The leg machines were very popular.

We did boxes again too.

Wednesday we just hung out, but Thursday morning started off with our bags.

Then our boxes.

Finally we made some gold medals. We made salt dough then used cookie cutters to make the medals. I baked them and left them out over the weekend. Monday morning we painted them gold.

Bo's Spanish Words:

Atleta- athlete

Ganar- to win

Oro- gold

Primero- first

Plata- silver

Here's our video too! One more week and it's back to school for Morgy.