The Castle Keepers and Defenders met yesterday for their final meeting for the 2013/2014 year. The girls made hair bow holders (painting picture frames)and hair bows. There were some very beautiful ones! Here’s one of them up close. The girls wearing our club colors and t-shirts we designed.   While the girls were busy making hair bows, the Castle Defenders and I were outside doing a few things ourselves. First on the agenda was to make sun tea. Then we blew some bubbles. 🙂 …and then we did a few experiments from http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/super-soap-bubble-solution/.  After blowing a bubble on the lid, the kids would insert different objects into the bubble like…

For this months Castle Defenders, I asked what is a knight without a sword.  So while our Castle Keeper girls were learning how to make journal covers, our boys were learning sword making skills. My husband taught the class and started off telling them a few stories. and then it was time to make their swords! This link has a good tutorial – How to Make a Boffer (Foam Sword). Then the rest of the day they fought and fought and in between chased chickens. 🙂 My older boys even got in on the action and took on all of them. And they all went home tired but happy “Castle…