Rainbow Day!

When looking at the weather all week

it looked like it was going to rain

everyday all day.

After two days at home

(we did go to story-time

at the library Monday) I decided

I had to have a plan today

for my 4 kids.

(5 including our friend Allie who spent the

day with us)

The girls have been begging to

make edible play-dough

so with all the rain I 

decided we would have 

Rainbow Day at the

Cartee household!

To my surprise today has

 ended up being a beautiful 

day so we moved some 

of our activities outside!

We started the morning off 

with Rainbow Pancakes!

(I just added food coloring

to pancake batter)

The kids LOVE cooking!

Roman of course had to have blue!

I decided not to do all the

colors of the rainbow.

(with just 4 colors we 

had way more pancakes than

we could eat!) 

YUMMY!

While the kids ate we talked about the 

beginning of rainbows.

I told them the story of Noah 

(and yes Jared, I included that all

the people on earth died).

We talked about how every time

we see a rainbow it should 

remind us of God's promises.

While I prepared for the next fun activity 

the kids played with play-dough!

Nixon insisted on making

Lottie play-dough creations.

I was busy making

homemade finger paint. 

I got the recipe here. 

This is how is shouldn't look! 

This is how it should look!

I scrounged up 4 squirt bottles to 

put the paint in. 

The kids LOVED painting.

They enjoyed painting with

their fingers and getting all messy!

After Nixon finished she was worried

Lottie was getting too hot so she 

held the umbrella to give her shade. 

She's always a big helper with Lottie!

The finished masterpieces!

After we finger painted 

it was time for lunch!

The kids painted their bread

with rainbow colors!

(milk & food coloring)

I found the idea here!

Before

After

After they painted their bread

I toasted it!

This was definitely the kids

 favorite activity of the day!

Lottie was unsure about 

the idea of 

painting bread!

I really expected the kids 

not to eat their sandwiches

but they devoured them! 

Apparently I should let them 

paint their

lunch everyday!

While they ate I read 

"I Love You More Than Rainbows"

&

"The Rainbow Fish".

Two of our favorite books!

I ended Rainbow Day

with introducing the kids

to my childhood favorite cartoon,

Rainbow Brite!

It has been a fun filled day!

I did go to prepare 

the homemade 

play-dough and realized 

we did not have enough flour.

(to be honest I was a bit relieved,

I am pooped and tired of cleaning the kitchen!)

We will save that for another day!

Now we are off and heading 

to Mission Friends 

& 1/2 price milkshakes @ Sonic!