Wind Week

Last week was supposed the be wind week. I figured it was good timing. The week before was war, almost 70 some days and had some good winds. This week however was compleatly opposite. Cold, freezing rain, snow - all around yucky. I don't think I will ever get used to how fickle spring is, at least not until I finally get to start growing my much desired garden - Then I am sure the loss of plants will stick in my mind and I will remember.
So, with the change in weather we could not - fly a kite - could not expiriment with pinwheels, and we could not make wind chimes (I had actually forgot to purchase the supplies for this one, so that I can't blame on the wheather. We could however pull out the blowdryer and have fun that way.
The cast of characters where as follows. A Play silk (a large peice of dyed fabric, its an open ended toy), some hollow plastic balls, and a tissue.

The tissue won with the cool and quick factor. I could never quite gran a picture of it flying, but alices face is definatly a good tell of how fun it was.

The tissue went up easily and alice enjoyed chasing after it with the hair dryer trying to keep it in the air. Her brilliance of how to keep it up made me giggle, and wish we had a longer cord.

Next up were the balls. The easiest of all. place them in the stream and the float magically above the dryer. Alice would place one than another in a stream. She tried many different ways to keep them afloat, and ever tried to balls until she claimed defeat about 5 minutes later.

Last was the play silk. The play silk probably did the most. We could make it float through the air. Alice wore it as a cape and I made it fly behind her like superman (a character that she is unfamiliar with and therefore did not grasp the concept). We placed the silk on the floor and she aimed the dryer at it to make it ripple, which gave her the idea to chase a ball around the room with the dryer, making it roll. And her favorite, put the silk over my face and point the dryer at me to make the silk fly off

This, of course, turned her into quite the blow dryer demon, and she had an insane amount of fun with it.
Once we had explored all of the avenues with the toys I knew to float I anvited Alice to grab four toys from her toybox that she thought would float and give them a try.

The moth was the first to make an appearance and deffinatly shows her practical side. I mean, moths fly right? We were able to get the moth to hover, but for only a moment. At which point, after a discussion, we decided that it was because it was too heavy. So, she produced Belle, and a rose top. Neither floated much to her dismay, and neither did the star (no matter how hard we tried)

It was a wonderful game, and we both enjoyed the lesson. Next week is color week and does not include anything outside so there should be a fun full day report to come.

Oh! And I feel it is important to mention that my hair dryer has a cool setting so it didn't even get warm.