For lunch, we had green applesauce, and for dinner, we had green pancakes... Needless to say, we went through a LOT of green food coloring today :-p
We ended up doing two crafts, which is probably for the better, because I have a sneaking suspicion that #1 will not work at all.
Craft 1: Rock Candy
It is so easy to do, boil water and add sugar to a 3:1 ratio of sugar to water. Add the sugar slowly, because it will get REALLY thick toward the end, so you want it to completely dissolve before you add more. Then, if you want to add 1tsp of extract and a few drops of food coloring. Then, you let it sit for about 10 minutes while you prep your string or skewer for your rock candy to grow on. I split our batch into 3 cups- 1 green w/ peppermint extract, 1 yellow with lemon extract, and 1 red with strawberry extract.
We used string which just eliminated a step. I simply tied a string 3 strings to popcicle sticks, and hung them in each cup, being careful to keep the strings off each other and off the bottom.
Now, we wait... up to 24 + hours to see if things "grow"... I'm not holding my breath, but I am hoping it happens, because the strawberry and lemon smell SOOO good!
... unfortunately, the girls were much more interested in playing than helping me do this craft, so aside from them being in the same room as me, I did this solo.
Craft 2: Rainbows
As I was making dinner, Iris looked at me and said "Mommy, we haven't done craft!" and she was so panicked about it that I decided to get craft #2 set up, with Mike's help. They decided to color popcicle sticks and make them into rainbows in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day.
Mike made a beautiful rainbow and the girls made very colorful wooden sticks :)
Oh, and Fish is doing really well! He's had a few water changes now, he got his first "frozen fish food" today... let me tell you what, Bloodworms are the most disgusting thing EVER... especially for a person who is PETRIFIED of worms! ACK!!!
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