Our first activity was digging in the dirt, always a winner with Gooba, and deciding if the creature we found was a bug or not a bug. Mostly the girls enjoyed digging in the dirt, so we let Bro Bro sort the creatures and count how many we had of each.
The next activity was super fun and a water activity, which definitely helped with the heat. As bug exterminators we filled up little water guns and tried squirting each other. If you got hit with the water you had to wiggle wiggle wiggle and fall to the ground like a bug. We did not so much understand the wiggle, but we sure did enjoy squirting the car! The car did not understand wiggling either.
When we had exterminated all of the bugs with our water guns, we filled the water with bottle top bugs. The kids had to fish them out with their little strainers and place them in the hoop that matched the color. The girls were fantastic at this activity! They matched all of their colors perfectly and loved playing with the strainers. In fact Gooba kept taking the "bugs" out of the hoops and putting them back in the water to fish more out.
Next, and very appropriate for our super hot day, was the frozen bugs. Pretty Girl's Mommy had frozen three bugs into three blocks of ice. The kids had to spray the blocks of ice with warm water and try to pick out the bugs. I'm not sure what worked better, the 97 degree heat or the warm water. Either way, the kids still had fun.
After freeing the frozen bugs we moved on to attacking bubble bugs with fly swatters. Since I was the one blowing the bubbles, I didn't get a picture of this one... sorry! Essentially we blew a bunch of bubbles and the kids ran around the yard whacking them with fly swatters. A good time for all!
Craft Time! All I have is a finished product picture of this one since it was pretty hands on, but they turned out great! First we used Dot Painters to paint a paper plate. This was a great time for the girls to practice their colors and their manners. When they were done painting we cut their plates and attached the body that Pretty Girl's Mommy cut out the night before. We taped the body to the wings and taped on pipe cleaners for antennae. Then they chose and glued on their own googly eyes.
The next craft was another super cute one. We turned red socks inside out and filled them with beans, tied the top and rolled the extra over the knot. We added some black dots, and voila instant beanbag ladybugs! 
We then took our ladybugs and placed them in a sheet to make a make shift parachute and just went crazy!!!! Gooba was very good at this since we have now played parachute at both Story Time and Gymnastics. And frankly, she's just great at going crazy in general, it's kind of her thing!
Finally we were on to our last craft of the day... notice how all the outside activities were at the beginning before the heat got too bad! Gooba really liked this one, so again I only have a finished product picture. We cut out a butterfly shape and placed it on contact paper. Then we added a few pieces of ribbon, cut the extra contact paper and stuck them on the window! Gooba is super proud of this one and showed it several times to Daddy.
When we got home we decided to work on a few of our butterfly activities. The first one was one of her favorites, size sorting. This time we had many Daddy, Mommy, and Baby cards. We sorted them by size and then counted how many of each we had.
The next one made me smile. Earlier in the week really struggled with sorting the bee B's so I thought we would try to sort some butterfly B's. She had absolutely no problem with this today. In fact, even our bear we made yesterday helped a little bit. She insisted I take bear's picture since he helped so much. Then I realized that she was just mega confused by the whole B bee thing. Probably shouldn't have started the week with those!
Next we tried something new, some pattern cards. Gooba was freakishly awesome at finishing these patterns. She continues to surprise me with what she knows. She was also pretty excited about this activity if you couldn't already tell from the picture.
After the 30 seconds that it took us to make patterns we moved onto "heads and tooshies" even though they were technically right and left wings. Even Chance got in on the fun with this one. Gooba continued to rock at this game.
Finally, as if we hadn't accomplished enough today, we ended the day with some magnets. All in all we had another fabulous friend day and learned a lot in the process. Tomorrow we hope to squeeze in some ballerinas and some pool time with Gogo and Pop as well!
Printables borrowed graciously from Confessions of a Homeschooler and Making Learning Fun
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