A Night At the Spa

Well, not quite a spa, but it was Spa Night for the Activity Days girls.  I've totally slacked on my Activity Days posts lately.  I kept forgetting my camera.  They've been doing a lot of fun things, too.  These are the 8-11 year old girls at my church.  They meet twice a month for an activity, and I'm in charge of it.  They've done sock dodge ball, made cards for people, heart attacked doors, did a service scavenger hunt, dyed eggs, and there were more, but they've slipped my mind at the present.

This past Activity Day they were invited by the Young Women (ages 12-18) to come have a Spa Night in their pajamas.  The YW painted their finger and toe nails, and educated me in the art of Crackle.  It's only been 2 years since I taught Middle School and I'm already out of the loop.  Apparently Crackle is the "thing" to do with your nails.  You paint your nails like normal and then apply a thin coat of white crackle on top - it actually cracks and then you see the color in the cracks.  Now you can feel hip and up to date on your nail polish trivia.  Tee hee.

The most amusing part of the night for me was watching the girls apply a homemade oatmeal facial completed with cucumbers.  You should have heard the squeals when the oatmeal made its first contact with their face!  For some reason none of them liked my idea of just eating the oatmeal and cucumbers off their face.  Good times.