Over the weekend we experienced some INTENSE windstorms, and the bits and pieces in our backyard got 'involuntarily relocated'. So today we found our water-tables overturned which added to an interesting discovery. You see, with those windstorms came every sort of weather imaginable... rain, snow, hail, and even sun, and it's that rain that got trapped in the neat crevices the underside of our water-tables, that caught our attention.
Over the course of last night that rain froze and made some rather interesting patterns of ice.
I was overly excited about this discovery of these patterns, and so were the children... in a much different sense. When we made the discovery I wondered what exciting questions the children would conjure up. My brain was reeling with visions of ice sculptures, science projects... etc, etc, etc. But our adult minds tend to over think everything. Of course the children had other things in mind.
Before I could even blink the pieces were smashed to smithereens, and the pieces were then collected into buckets and carted away. Of course, part of the thrill of discovering ice is breaking it! Once again, the children remind me that not everything is a project, but rather an opportunity for FUN!!!
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