Winter is here

Fittingly, it's "winter" week this week. Friday it was so warm it was raining, but yesterday the cold hit and we have wind chills in the -20 degree range now.

This morning I put three bowls of water outside for about 90 minutes which did not freeze solid as I thought it would. It did make ice shells though which is all we needed for painting. 

Each kid got some washable paint, a brush and an ice chunk and they were able to experiment with painting the ice, watching how the paint rain more as the ice melted and painting inside as a hole formed in the top.