Bamboo wind chimes for Fathers Day

We walk around the campsite a lot and talk to all the old people and people on real vacation.  The girls found a guy cutting down some of his bamboo and asked if we could have it.

I found a project online to make a bamboo wind chime .

The girls and I went to Lowe's and got a saw and a drill for fathers day.  I decided that we could test out the drill to make homes in the bamboo.  I wanted to make sure Michael was getting a good product. We also got little tape measures for each girl. I bought a wooden wreath at Michael's, paint and glitter.

We started by measuring different sizes to cut (6",9",12" and so on) and then I held the bamboo while the girls used a real  saw to cut each piece, hard work when its 100 degree out. 

Then the girls each took 4 bamboo stick  and painted them, (2 brown for granddaddy and 2 green for daddy)and added glitter and there initials and glitter glue and all sorts of fun stuff to make them pretty for Grandaddy and Daddy.

We tied them to the wooden wreath and were done.  I was very proud of the girls for using a real saw, measuring on there own - which of course led to math (discussing what a foot was,  two feet, inches and so on) and on cutting there own pieces of bamboo - hard work, even for mom.

Here is a video of what they did - they do a much better job explaining than me  :-)