For our last week of Summer Reading Club this summer we chose a fun and easy read. Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag was a quick read for our friends, and as a bonus it included lots of fun beachy activity ideas after the story was over!
We used sand paper and construction paper to create our own sandcastle scenes on paper. There was lots of scissors and glue and sharing of ideas and we got to see some pretty fabulous beach crafts.
The artists at work
Finished Sandcastle Scenes
We had some cousins join us so our group was a little bigger this week.
After we talked about the book and helped Nate solve the mystery, we headed out in the backyard for an end-of-summer beachy swim party and frozen ocean pops (recipe from the book).
Summer fun beach party!
Super tasty Frozen Ocean Pops, with bonus Swedish Fish
This week's book was "Fortunately, the Milk" by Neil Gaiman.
There's no milk. And Mum's away.
So Dad saves the day by going to buy some. Really, that’s all that happens. Very boring. Soooooooo boring. YAAAAAAAWWWN. You don't want to read it.
We loved talking about Professor Steg and *her* fabulous time-traveling Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier and the adventures that Dad went on all while simply trying to bring a bottle of milk home to his children for their poor, sad, dry Toastios.
This week we took advantage of J's recent trip to Legoland and built all kinds of things with Legos!
We started with a tall tower, and then shortly moved on to a zoo, then a multicolored dance floor, a cupcake party, and then finally a fantastic underground city (under the coffee table).
We had more boys than girls this time (first time!), and everyone worked well together and used their great imaginations to create some amazing worlds.
For our last week of Summer Reading Club this summer we chose a fun and easy read. Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag was a quick read for our friends, and as a bonus it included lots of fun beachy activity ideas after the story was over! 
