Oatmeal

Genevieve's class finally got to play in oatmeal yesterday. Thankfully it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. They put dry oatmeal into a wide box and placed it on top of a sheet. The kids were then given shovels, buckets, and rakes. Genevieve loved filling up her bucket and dumping out the oatmeal on the floor, just outside the coverage of the sheet. She relishes in the fact that she can almost always find ways to circumvent any attempts to defy her destructive abilities. She really does have a talent for it. Genevieve also has natural leadership skills. Several of the kids liked her idea of putting oatmeal on the carpet so much that they soon followed suit. The children even demonstrated cooperation by having one child lift the sheet while others would sweep the oatmeal underneath it.

The craft for yesterday was a paper umbrella refrigerator magnet. Genevieve helped by stealing paste, eating paste, and attempting to eat the magnets. As far as we know none of the kids managed to swallow any of the magnets, but there were many sticky mouths and fingers at the end of craft time. Maybe the next craft will involve drywall and a nail gun.