St. Patrick's Day Celebration and Ryan's Fun with Art

Today Ethan and his friend, Quinn, had fun at a St. Patrick's Day party at our local living history museum.  They enjoyed learning about St. Patrick's Day through listening to a book and singing songs.  Each child was given a leprechaun finger puppet, and in this song they were supposed to "hide" the leprechaun different places (here it is on their backs).

Ryan did a great job being content to sit in his stroller, watch, and listen

The kids were preparing to participate in a parade, so they made drums to carry and play.  Here Ethan is decorating his with a leprechaun and clover stickers.

Ethan showing off his finished product!  The boys also made kazoos.

The kids got to listen to several lesser known instruments being played.  Here they are singing along to a dulcimer song.

This guy cracks me up.  He is one of the employees who isn't afraid to dress up and be silly with the kids and their parents.  He dressed up like a leprechaun and performed a little song and dance.  Wish I would have caught the dance on video-it was cute!

On a completely unrelated note, Ryan has shown an increasing interest in playing with the art easel that we have in the basement.  He is finally tall enough to reach the chalk and use it on the blackboard.  He thinks drawing with chalk is so much fun.

 

He was having such a great time, he decided to draw double-fisted!