Crayon Rubbings

We went on a great outing today! The weather is unseasonably warm and it was time to get out. Before we went, though, I had each kid make a notebook to do crayon rubbing in. Each child cut two pieces of paper into quarters. I had drawn lines on it and both Matthew (who is almost 3) and Sarah (who is 5) were able to cut the 8 pages for their 'notebooks' with the exception of one page that Matthew cut too much of.

Then Sarah wrote her name on her notebook and I wrote Matthew's name on his. We stapled them together and put their notebook and a crayon with the wrapper removed into a plastic bag. Then we put those and a snack in their backpacks and we were off.

We went to this great bike trail that has leaf imprints in the walkway. I thought that they would be great to do rubbings of, but they actually didn't work out too well. We still had a great time exploring, eating our snack, and finding all different kinds of textures to try 'rubbing'. We found some raised letters on signs, logs, old leaves, and other textures.

The kids felt like it was a real outing to get to wear a backpack, go exploring, and stop for a snack. I had a great time being out of the house in the beautiful air enjoying the kids and having some time away from the jobs at home.

They love each other -- they just each needed a side to HOLD ON too!