While PisecoDad and BabyGirl napped this afternoon, JediBoy and I had fun making each other mystery messages. We mixed equal amounts of baking soda and water, then used Q-tips to write with that mixture on plain white paper. After the writing had dried, we painted over the papers with a very thin watercolor - and the mystery messages were revealed!
We both got quite a kick out of this, and also for the first time (yes, in more than 5 years of life) JediBoy actually asked me to help show him how to draw something (a pumpkin). We were having so much fun with that, and playing with BabyGirl when she woke up (he likes to pretend to eat her feet), that I didn’t realize one important fact: the mystery messages are NOT PERMANENT! We now have lots of pieces of paper that are faintly orange and faintly black, with no pictures or writing on them at all. I was too slow with the camera today, so I don’t have pictures to share. But it was a fun and very easy way to pass the time this afternoon.
He also read aloud from one of our Bill Martin Jr. Sounds… texts - I think Sounds in the Wind - the story of the Turnip as well as Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice. We read together our latest installment of Supa Strikas - a soccer comic from South Africa. We’re saving our energy & resting now to be ready for trick or treating tonight!
