{"id":1363,"date":"2012-08-22T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-08-28T22:15:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:15:04","slug":"a-fun-seashell-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/a-fun-seashell-activity.html","title":{"rendered":"A Fun Seashell Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family likes to go to the beach on weekends. \u00a0It’s Dave’s and my little indulgence on Sunday mornings these days: we head out around 10am and come home in time for a late lunch around 1pm.<\/p>\n

You never know how the Gulf is going to behave on a given trip to the beach. \u00a0Sometimes there’s a ton of seaweed, sometimes there are jellyfish, sometimes the water is really deep at our favorite spot, sometimes it’s really shallow.<\/p>\n

On our last trip, two weekends ago, the seashells were out in force and we enjoyed collecting several.<\/p>\n

The kids have brought home buckets full of small seashells before, and they’ve mainly sat in our garage awaiting an idea. \u00a0This time the kids begged me to help them do something more fruitful than have them sit in the garage.<\/p>\n

So I offered to buy the kids a vase and they could fill the vase with the shells. \u00a0I went to Walmart and took a look at the glass vases in the craft\/candles section and thought to myself “That’s going to take forever”.<\/p>\n

I found a hurricane glass and chose a sand-colored candle to add to the glass. \u00a0The kids filled the hurricane glass with the shells and it now sits in the bathroom to match their surf-shop bathroom look.<\/p>\n

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First we washed the shells and sat them out in the sun to dry.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Then the kids simply placed the shells in the glass around the candle…largest shells first, then they filled in the spaces with the smaller shells.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We worked hard to make sure the shells dropped down with the “pretty side” facing outward.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The finished product. We only used about 2\/3 of the shells and the boys want to do this again. A nice Florida memory.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our family likes to go to the beach on weekends. \u00a0It’s Dave’s and my little indulgence on Sunday mornings these days: we head out around 10am and come home in time for a late lunch around 1pm. You never know how the Gulf is going to behave on a given trip to the beach. \u00a0Sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,26,97,175,299],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-lZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1975,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/03\/florida-discoveries-41-navarre-beach-marine-science-station.html","url_meta":{"origin":1363,"position":0},"title":"Florida Discoveries 41: Navarre Beach Marine Science Station","date":"27 March 13","format":false,"excerpt":"Just before the kids' Spring Break, I had the chance to partially chaperone for Timmy's class trip to the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station. 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