Swim Lessons, Lego Style

The kids have been going to swim camps this week and have really been enjoying them. For lack of anything better to do and because we didn't want to play outside in the 90+ heat, the kids and I made swim lesson models with Legos. Here are our creations and their explanations.

This is Danielle's.

The instructor is in the water while the students sit on the gutter. Danielle is getting ready to jump in the water onto the pool noodle. (I took all the pony tail hair pieces, so Danielle had to use "boy hair".)

This is mine.

Danielle is standing on the gutter, waiting to jump in. Tyler is practicing floating but is cheating because he's wearing flippers. He didn't appreciate my humor.

This is Tyler's, which I think is the most detailed of all.

The white thing across the top is supposed to look like the flags that hang across the lanes at the pool where they're taking lessons. The orange things are lights in the water. If you look closely, you can see 2 blue wedges by the feet of the guy who's floating. Those are splashes from him jumping in. The gray brick in the middle is actually a shark fin. The guy with his arms up behind the shark fin was so scared he made the water green.

This afternoon we attended a program at our library. It was a magic/variety show and the guy was great. All the kids sat together on the floor in the front of the room and the parents sat in chairs behind them. It was neat to hear all those little voices giggling together. Anyway, one of the guy's acts involved juggling a bowling ball, bowling shoe, and bowling pin. At the end, he balanced the bowling ball on a plunger on his forehead. The kids really enjoyed the show, which was good because Tyler warned me "this had better be worth it" as we were waiting in line a whole 5 minutes to get in. Later today we were sitting around when Danielle nonchalantly said, "Uh, Mom? I'm going to need a plunger and a bowling ball."