Unplug Your Kids-Trees

The theme for this weeks Unplug Your Kids project was Trees. We went to Zilker Botanical Gardens and after walking around and looking at all the fun exhibits we settled in the Oriental Garden and talked about Bamboo Trees. I told the boys about how bamboo grows very fast and so it's a good tree to use if you need to cut it down and build something with it. I explained to them that their Uncle Joel's floor in his house is made out of bamboo and they thought that was pretty cool. After we talked about bamboo I had them draw pictures of bamboo and then we did rubbings of the bamboo poles in the room that we were in. We just wrapped paper around the poles and then rubbed our crayons on the paper. The notches in the bamboo made some neat designs on the paper. I didn't get a picture, but the boys could see a lot of live bamboo through the window of this room.

They boys drawing their bamboo pictures

Seth's Bamboo Rubbing

Wyatt's Bamboo Rubbing
Seth's Drawing of Bamboo
Wyatt's Drawing of Bamboo
Wyatt drew another picture of his "favorite" tree when he was done with his bamboo drawing. He said the leaves went all the way to the ground.

More pictures from our trip to the Garden

I decided not to take the stroller (something I've never done before) because I wasn't sure if there would be a path to push it on. So instead each boy got a backpack to carry. It worked really well and there were no complaints.

Wyatt loves looking at maps and here he was mapping out our walk through the garden.

Reece heading off alone down a path. He's definitely Mr. Independent.
Aren't they cute?

I love this picture. My bridal portrait was taken in this "window".
I told Wyatt not to let go of Reece, so he was holding on with all he had.
The boys enjoyed the Dino part of the gardens.
Seth loved the waterfall


They saw a lizard run across the path and up a tree and got SO excited!!


Cooling off with some water I brought in the bamboo hut.