glow tub

M and I have been celebrating "fun Fridays" since I went back to work in September. We do something fun together like the zoo or a park. Today's fun Friday was going to be mini golf and a picnic lunch in our yard but it got rained out.  Instead, we celebrated Friday with a special take-out lunch and then a glow tub.

We got our glow sticks in the Target dollar aisle. They had a large pre-Halloween selection. I almost went with the glow bracelets because there were more in a pack but these sticks were pretty bright. We only had two but M was completely entertained by them both during and after his bath.  Four would have probably been ideal. 

I've seen this on various blogs before.  Our tip- use bubbles. It looks much cooler. 

And after- glow truck

stained glass window

This is an activity I've been meaning to try for a while but I never had clear contact paper on hand. This weekend we bought some for another DIY project for the baby's room so we were able to get this in as well. 

All you need for this activity is clear contact paper and small pieces of some other type of paper. We used construction paper because it was what we had. I think tissue paper would look really neat and give more of a stained glass look but this worked fine too. 

Hang the contact paper sticky side out on a window. We used our slider which worked well because I could put the paper lower for M. Cut or rip the other paper into small pieces then stick it on. 

M took it upon himself to name some shapes as he went, which I wasn't even expecting.  As we worked I thought it would be neat to have pieces cut as specific things that could make a scene (like animal/barn/tractor pieces to make a farm scene).  That would obviously take more prep on my part (as it was we did this kind of on the fly this morning) but I think M would really like it. 

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