More Tech-Free Tuesday Pictures

You thought I'd given up on Tech-Free Tuesday, didn't you?  Well, I haven't.  Is it always super-fun?  Heck no!  And I didn't force it on my birthday or during our stay-cation.  Still, overall it's been a really great thing!  Here's the latest crop of photos:

One day, we made sponge bombs like these.

And we had a huge water fight.  I wanted to do relay races and stuff, but the kids weren't interested.  They just wanted to pummel each other.

Afterward, we had a cheese and cracker picnic on the lawn while they dried off a little bit.

We spent a good part of one Tech-Free Tuesday (and a good chunk of money too) making a really cool quiet book for church.

Here's a picture of the finished product.

One of the activities:  We laminated these simple pictures and the kids embellish them with dry erase markers.

Sewing cards.

Josh especially loves these button snakes - and it helps with hand-eye coordination.

On another Tech-Free Tuesday, we held our first ever "Popcorn Olympics!"  In this event, they had to see how many pieces they could get into a bowl across the room.  

In a similar event, they tried to get popcorn into a cup from way up high.

Here's the popcorn shot put.  It's harder than it looks. 

Then we had the popcorn catch.  Nicki easily took the gold medal on this one - none of the rest of us can throw a piece of popcorn into the air and catch it in our mouths.  

Then, we had a balancing event.

The team mouth catching event was a dud!  It's SUPER hard - especially when half of your team is a little boy.  You should have seen poor Nicki and Bronson.

Our final event was a straw blowing race.

On another Tech-Free Tuesday, we tie-dyed some clothes. We had a really great time, and only ruined a couple of articles of clothing in the process.