Socialized

My kids are homeschooled.

And like all homeschooling families, we get the question about socialization a lot.

I won't go into my long answer about how I don't believe that spending 8 hours in a room with children the same age as you covers socialization, but I will say that my kids are social.

Like, really social.

So I don't worry about their social skills.  But every now and then I like to throw in a day with our  homeschooling neighbors, full of crafts and games and snacks, and call it a day of socialization.

Kelsey has become an awesome friend over the past few months.  

I love hanging out with her and her brood of four boys.  Even if they do wear me completely out!

We had a lot of fun doing some Christmas crafting.  I had all of these on my to do list but art is the first thing I cut when we are short on time.  I loved getting to cross a bunch off in one day.

We made marshmallow snowmen.

Well, the oldest three made marshmallow snowmen.  Gabe and Cruz ate glue covered marshmallows.

Then we painted with Snow Paint.

Super easy: mix equal parts glue and shaving cream.  paint dries puffy.

Kelsey's newest enrollee is edible.

We made Gingerbread Playdoh.

The older three played our Gingerbread Sight Word game while the play-doh cooled off.

 And we wrapped it all up with some play-doh cookie making.

Would you believe we did all of that in two hours?

I was in my bed napping before Kelsey hit the end of our driveway!