We couldn’t bring our Chesso friends to the lake, so we brought the lake - or at least the lake bottom - to them.
Before we left camp last week, we filled up six quart-size freezer bags with sand and rocks from the lake. Today, we brought the bags over to Leigh’s house and let the kids dump them out into foil pans, swish them around with water, poke at them with brushes and sieves and basters. It was fun in the way that the pricey “pan for gems” tourist traps are - the kids were delighted to find “crystals” and “coal” and “gems” in their pans.
Paula and Emily look for treasures:
Nate concentrates on using his baster:
Anna can’t help but smile:
JediBoy delights in a fabulous find:
Ben and BabyGirl bond over rocks:
It was great fun, and kept the kids occupied for a long time. Emily even went back out after dinner to look some more, and Paula and Ben took their dish of rocks home to explore further.
