For our second year, my friend Emily and I are doing a homeschool-preschool co-op for our kids.  (Somehow, I don’t think I’ve blogged about this at all but it’s been a great part of our week for the past year and a couple months!)  Today, we were learning about blue whales and as part of that, we went outside to mark on the street how long a blue whale actually is.  They can grow up to 100 feet.  This turns out to be REALLY big!  I couldn’t find any sidewalk chalk so we improvised with rocks and pink paper every 25 feet.

I’m at the tail, the girls are at the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtDzxobG3E&feature=youtu.be

Walking from head to tail, you will notice that all four children declined my request to say “hi”.

It also takes a long time to run the length of a blue whale.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBuq64V9xHI&feature=youtu.be

We also made blue whales out of cups, complete with blow hole spray.

Although I avoid Pinterest almost all the time (too mind-messing, too time-sucking), it definitely came in handy for fun blue whale activities!

P.S. Lest you be concerned about the safety of all our children, rest assured that we were on a one-way street that has very little traffic, which comes from the tail direction.  We were A-OK! 🙂