Day 111: Nature Rubbings

I remember in 3rd grade, we did a local history unit and went to the Old Worthington Cemetery and did gravestone rubbings with crayons.  It was a little creepy to me, even at 9 years old, that we were making impressions of tombstones in crayons.... but, it was a fun activity.  A few days ago, when we were outside coloring the driveway, I thought about how fun it would be to go outside and make rubbings of different objects with crayons.  Well, today, I thought it was warmer than it really was and the kids really wanted to go out, so I threw so coats on us and we went outside with paper and crayons.

First, it was sunny, and the wind was calm, so we started at the driveway and used our crayons to make an impression on the paper, then we went to the neighbors fence (hope she doesn't mind that it is a little browner now than before we started this project :-p), then went to the brick below our porch, then the house, then the neighbors tree since it is the only tree around us now!

Iris really got into it, she had a lot of fun and got the point.  I wanted to use some stepping stones, and kind of a take a walk and find more things to make impressions with, but Penny started to complain that she was cold, the wind was ripping, and Coraline's feet were just about frozen, and I was cold.... so, we came inside.  Here is what we ended up with: