Scouts

Here are a couple of pictures from our last scout meeting.  The kids were working on their nutrition badge.  They all were able to grind their own wheat, start some sprouts, and make butter.  For our snack we ate the rainbow.  :)  The next week we went on a maple sugar tour to finish up the badge.  

In the kitchen

K and I have been doing lots of projects in the kitchen.  We've been making lots of butter.  Here is some above that we molded into a pineapple.  My mom also brought as a grain grinder so we've been grinding out wheat before we bake. It makes things taste great. 

crackers

We made some really great graham crackers and it was so easy.  It took me forever to find a recipe that actually called for graham flour.  Most recipies use whole wheat.  The crackers tasted great!

Play time

 K is making an eggshell picture here.

 We received a big box full a rock collection from my mom.  She found them at a garage sale.  kalan had a great time cleaning and organizing the rocks. 

 We started making a new habitat.  The desert.  So far we've only felted a tan sweater and cut out the desert.  Here is a camel checking out his new home.  This was part of a huge road we made covering our whole living room.

 More of the road.  It lead to the barn, doll house, arctic, pond, and gnome home. 

Window star making

Here are a couple of my recent window stars.  I've gone a little window star crazy and made a whole ton.  I'm thinking I"ll use them for L's birthday party.  The top picture is K making window stars.  He loves making them.  :)

Making butter

 I got a great new book for Christmas on how to make butter, yogurt, and cheese.  It kind of goes through them in lessons that build upon each other.  The first was making butter (and buttermilk of course).  It was super fun to make.  Next time I want to have a mold ready so my butter can have a fun shape.  Also I realized afterwords we probably should have salted it as we mostly just used it to butter bread.  The top picture I'm kneading the butter in the most wonderful clay pot my dad and his wife gave me for Christmas.  :)

sunb bread

We haven't been making as much homemade bread lately.  Which is too bad because I love homemade bread.  Anyway we made this sun bread on the shortest day of the year to welcome the sun back.