It's Fall, Y'all!
We created some paper pumpkins. Super easy and super fun as well as a super cute finished project.
Each session following our trickle in activity, we gather for welcome and expectations. It is a great way for us to keep getting to know one another and talk about our siblings and their special needs. The kids make important connections as they share their brief stories and empathize with one another. After we wrapped up our discussion of expectations and consequences we had ourselves an indoor snowball fight. The goal is to get as many snowballs on your neighbors yard as possible. A little friendly physical competition definitely gets the blood pumping!
Next up was "Wheel of Feelings". We toss the beanbags onto our wheel and and see where they land. Whatever emotion they land on is an opporutnity to share your feelings about experiences you have had with your sibling. You might share a time when you felt pride, happiness, anger or sadness.
Yummy Halloween Treats greeted us at lunchtime. Mummy dogs, jack-o-lantern clementines, and cheese ghosts were on the spooky menu and devoured quickly.
Engineering spaghetti & marshmallow towers isn't quite as easy as it sounds. They are definitely unique building materials. Our Sibshoppers did a fanstastic job manipulating their materials to build some pretty amazing towers. We might have some future engineers and architects in this talented group of kids.
We followed this engineering activity with something a bit more colorful and creative--as well as delicious. The Halloween cookies turned out to be both wonderfully artistic and yummy!
See you for more fun, friendship (and likely feasting!) in November.
