We went to the Art, Play, Hike homeschool meet up today! This is a free group for children of all ages, hosted by the Cincinnati Parks department.

Each Tuesday, this homeschool group meets at a different park around Cincinnati to do art projects, take a Hike, and make new friends to play & socialize with. Today it was held at French Park, which is right by our home.

We showed up an hour early by accident so we decided to take our own big hike while we waited for the rest of the group to show up. I told the kids they could choose which trail we took. They decided on one we hadn’t taken before. By the time we finished our super long hike, the group was ready & set up to begin.

Our first art project today was decorating kites! The kids were really excited to do this project.

Our second art project was decorating flower pots, then filling with dirt & planting wildflower seeds. Mia mentioned that it was great for our Botany class!

They provided baskets of paint markers & stickers for the kids to color their pots. The kids had a lot of fun personalizing them.

Moses fell down so many times on our hike he was covered from head to toe in mud by the end of it. We are trying to live with the “no such thing as bad weather” mindset, and he had fun so that’s all that matters.

The kids were really excited to run around and fly their kites. The got the hang of it pretty quickly and were able to fly them really high in the air!

Our second hike with the group was much shorter, but we went into depth about the different plants & flowers that we saw that are edible, pretty, or invasion (and how to safely remove).

This was a great meet up today & I’m really glad that we went. We all had a lot of fun, got a lot of exercise, and got to make some really cool crafts with each other & new friends.

Until next time ♡ Mama Morozov