This might pinterest you: car edition

well, actually I couldn't find ANYTHING on facebook that I didn't already come up with on my own...
so here's what I've come up with:
*skittle sorting: have them shade in, count, add, answer all kinds of questions while they snack on treats and if they get everything right, give them a mini skittle pack wrapped in foil.
Why foil?
Then we can make foil staches... or animals or rings or whatever...
*Car scavenger hunt. Yah, I know you know it all, but there are different age groups in my car... I have one who can't read, one who just started and a smarty pants.... so I have to gauge it different.
so preschool: pictures of things that can be found on the road or billboards
just reading: name the pictures that you put on preschool
Smarty pants: name specific ads
EXAMPLE: cow, c-o-w, and chickfila
give a prize not to the first but to each one as they finish
*have an ABC jar... they have to find all 26 letters and when they do, give abc crackers wrapped in foil
* magnets: get a dollar store cookie sheet . they're small... have some cut up pipe cleaners or magnets that they can play with.
* Have a coloring theme party: best monster, best superhero, favorite animal etc
* make paperbag puppets
* time to learn: learn to tie shoes, read, biographies, learn aobut where you're going etc
*take the name of the place you're going ... ex. chicago, illinois. take the letters and seehow many words you can make out of it.
*pipe cleaner animals

hope this helps with car trips!!!

movin on up

Had a conversation with Ada the other day. Now if you've never had a conversation with a 4 year old, they can be um..... interesting... and when you have one with Ada, she'll rock your world with insight.
she  was telling me about moving overseas.
She told me she was excited, but when she got tired of it, she was moving back.
"how?", I asked.
"I'm going to bribe the customs people with candy"
Who do you think you'll live with?
 "I'm not living with anyone. I think I'll find a lost child who has no family or place to live and invite her to come to America with me and then we'll live together."

So my brilliant 4 year old...
What do I do with a conversation like this...
ok.