Health & Fitness
Tea-Stained Dinosaur and a Visiting Bunny
Today was another great Summer Camp day at Montessori Children’s House of Lemon Grove.
We started our day with an art project that required tea, coffee and lemon juice. Using Q-tips the children painted their Dimetrodon with tea. This put a base of light brown over the entire dinosaur. The next step was to add concentrated instant coffee which added dark brown. Then lemon juice was put on to bleach out parts of the tea and coffee staining. The children finished with a water-colour wash of green for the ground and blue for the sky. A goggle eye completed the project!
We were also visited today by Buddy the Bunny. Buddy is the beloved pet of one of our students and we were happy to have him visit. His fur was as soft as could be and the children loved petting him.
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We also had an unexpected visitor! Our volcano was sitting out on the tree stump drying out from one of our explosions last week (see past entries) and the children found the smallest alligator lizard I have ever seen sitting right on the volcano! They carefully put him in a bucket with leaves to observe him. He is tiny, only about 1” long and is missing his tail. It was very “prehistoric” to see him sitting on the volcano looking like a little dinosaur!