Our homeschool group had their fourth annual International Festival on Saturday. The homeschool group itself is only 4 years old and has about 165 families as members. About 20 families participated and had a country that they represented. Peyton wanted China, but it was taken, so his other choice was Australia. We did this with his friend Samantha Gaylor. Sam was studying about the continents, so they were good with Australia. ;) Sam came over one day every week and we worked on the Australia project. We had them do bloody copy work that they loved so much. They painted foam boomerangs, didgeridoo's (big bamboo sticks), colored animals, stuck a bunch of stuff on our bulletin board and baked some Australian treats.
We dressed them up to look like prisoner's. When Britain found Australia, they used it as an Alcatraz...a place to keep prisoners they didn't want on their soil. The festival was a lot of fun. They didn't want to leave and they want to do another country. Everyone had a passport that was given to them and each country had a stamp or sticker to put in the passport to show you visited it. Somehow Peyton lost his at the end. Boo. But he had fun getting them stamped. Each station had treats to try. Some were really good and some tasted really awful...you wonder how it's a favorite anything to anyone. The kids all dressed up in a costume to represent their country.
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| Peyton & Sam are baking our Australian delights... Anzac cookies and Lamington's |
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| Peyton & Sam in front of our display with their didgeridoo's I found an astronaut costume that was all orange. I tried to cover up the patches on the costume (you can see the Australian flag. The space shuttle was covered up, but that patch came off. There were more choices for orange clothing for girls, so Sam had an orange shirt that was inside out and some orange pants cut up to look ragged. They both looked cute. They had handcuff's too, thanks to Sam's dad. ;) |
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| Our display...the leaves on the left are from a Eucalyptus tree. Darla found a Eucalyptus tree by the airport area and went and cut a branch off one of them for our display. Brave woman, she is. :) Eucalyptus smells a little like Vics Vapor Rub. |
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| Ash pushing the stroller around. I'm really wishing my double stroller didn't go walkabout. I'm missing that thing. I can buckle Ryne in a stroller, but he just walks off with it attached to him... |
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| Daddy playing with Ryne outside. He doesn't even know I took this picture. ;) |
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