Last night, after the kids were in bed, we were watching Lockup: San Quentin Extended Stay. It is a documentary about the lives of prisoners who are serving long sentences in San Quentin. The prisoners necessarily have to be very creative in finding ways to spend their time, and some create amazing works of art using the meager supplies available to them. Some of them make amazing sculptures using only toilet paper and water.
Now, today is an average day for this time of year - 93 degrees - and the kids wanted to play with the hose to cool down. I went out to check on them after a little while, and this is what I found:
Here they are soaking magazine pages in water on the sidewalk and then scrunching them up into little balls. Then they laid them out in the sun to dry:
At least we know that they will not die of boredom should they ever end up in prison....
2 comments:
Love the prison art, your kids are so creative! I need to read your blog more to get ideas of what to do at home with my kids this summer! Can't believe your baby is so big...
LOL! That's awesome! For some odd reason I used to get a towel and soak it with the hose, wring it out a bit, then toss it up in the air and let it land on the driveway and see what kind of things I could see in the wet patterns it made on the driveway! Weird, I know! LOL!
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