Sponge Balls

Today we had a sponge ball fight with our homemade sponge balls.  Find instructions on how to make them here.

As you can see, they had a blast and it was a fun way to beat the heat.

Sponge Relay Fun

I Can Teach My Child posted a fun little sponge activity to do that we tried out today.  My boys had a great time with it.  We filled up a bowl with 8 cups of water than put it outside and put a bowl on the other side of the yard.  The idea is to have your child move the water with sponges.  I had all three of my boys going at one time.

 After they had emptied the first bowl we measured how much water was in the second bowl.  Then we talked about ways we could have lost water (dripping from one bowl to another and so forth).  After doing that two times I timed how fast they could do it.  We noticed that when they were trying to go fast they didn't get as much water into the second bowl.  They did this three times, then I went ahead and did it and tried to show them how to move fast and still save as much water as possible.  They had fun cheering me on.

Here are our recorded results.

Sponge Towers

Today we built towers out of sponges.  I found the idea here.  I cut up sponges and the boys went to town building and knocking over towers.  We also did some patterning and the boys made some letters with them as well.  It provided entertainment for quite a while for all 3 of them.