Okay, it's not shark week. Not according to the Discovery Channel anyways, but since we don't have the Discovery Channel, or cable TV at all, we can make shark week whenever the hell we want, dammit! And since it's the last full week of summer vacation, we declared it Shark Week!
After the boys went to bed last night, I set up a little plastic cereal bowl with a construction paper shark head (attached with a rubber band) and some donut holes inside the "mouth".
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| Watch your hands when you grab for donuts!! |
I let the boys watch a shark documentary on Netflix (which is a big deal, because they've been grounded off screen time all summer), and then we did a shark craft.
This is completely ripped off Pinterest, but I'll put the step by step here.
1. Take some popsicle sticks and paint them grey (or in our case, use a silver Sharpie, because it takes less time)
2. Hot glue the popsicle sticks together to make triangles
3. Use blue or grey construction paper and cut down to size to fill the body, then cut into shapes for the fins and tail. You can glue them on to the back of the triangle, or use scotch tape like we did.
5. Cut out some teeth out of white construction paper, attach.
6. Hot glue a googly eye.
7. Finis! Funny little Popsicle Sharks are complete.
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| Cam made a "Great White" and Calen made a "Thresher Shark". Also appreciate shark shirts |
I tried to conjure up a sharky themed snack every day this week. Today was Calen's personal recipe: "stuffed crab". This is entirely a product of his imagination, and somehow it works. It's simply a can of sardines...
I know, I know!! Sardines?! Where, how, what made Calen, who barely likes fish sticks, decide he wanted to try sardines? And then he did try them, and loves them?? I love fish, and sardines are tough on me. Yikes.
Anyways, take a can of sardines (the kind that are in water), pull out the fishies out of the water and put them on a plate. Pick them apart (eww) and stuff them into ranch flavored Bugles chips. Add some ketchup and voila!! Stuffed crab!
Actually, these are strangely delicious.
I added some hardboiled eggs to the snack for Cam's sake (who is not onboard with the "stuffed crab" frenzy) and we pretended they are shark eggs.
And finally, since we were full blown into Shark Week today, the boys built some submarines out of Legos to "explore" the oceans and the sharks with. Calen even built a crane to drop his sub into the water. Color me impressed!
All in all it was a great first day of Shark Week and I hope we can keep up with it all week.
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