I loved spring break because it gave me a chance to do a whole bunch of activities with the boys that I have been wanting to do for a long time. During the school year there just isn't time for a lot after the boys get home, do chores, homework, reading, piano, dinner, baths and when we are playing a sport that just cuts into everything too. Usually the only time we have for crafts or activities is on the weekends and even those seem to be very full. Spring break was snowy/rainy pretty much the whole week, so we had a lot of inside activities going on. Any time the boys saw it clear up, they ran outside to play for a little snatch of time until it started up again. Our house got very "lived it" (messy) during the week :) I am glad that I had a bunch of crafts that I wanted to do. I saw these jumping cups on this site.
I decided to go with the rocket as I knew the boys would love it. I made the rocket on the front although I am sure the boys would have liked to have done it with me. Next time I will let them help. 
I cut a smallish slit on each side of the cup. Then I cut a rubber band and tied off the ends. I put two rubber bands in each cup. We found that the thinner rubber bands were better. They had more spring than the thicker ones and didn't break as easily. We definitely broke a lot of rubber bands during the coarse of this activity, but it wasn't too big of deal to put in a new one. Then you get a second cup (you don't have to do anything to the second cup) and put the first one on it, and let go. 
The boys loved it and played with it forever. I am beginning to wonder why I ever by toys from the store. They like the homemade ones so much more!
McKay was enthralled with this toy and wanted to play with one so bad! 
They got them going really high. It was fun to see them adjust their rubber bands to be tighter or more loose depending on how high they wanted them to go. 
We seriously had cups flying all over the place.
I finally made one for McKay and he had no idea what to do with it. He didn't want anyone to help him with it, but he wanted his own cups. He was so funny with them. 
Later that day we did this fun activity to make bubble art. I got this idea from this site. It works best if you have watercolor paper, but as we have done lots of water coloring lately, we were out. It was still fine with scratch paper/computer paper. You
paint - lots of colors (I just used some acylic paint that I had)dish soap
water
cups
straws
watercolor paper
Directions:
1. Pour some paint, a little dish soap and a small amount of water in a cup. Mix it up. If the color is too light, add more paint. If not bubbly enough, add more soap.
2. Put the straw in the cup and blow until bubbles come up over the cup. Make sure your child is old enough/able to do this. If you don't think your child can do this, or are worried about them accidentally sucking instead of blowing you may want to do this step for them.
3. Grab your watercolor paper and pop the bubbles on your paper. Repeat with whatever colors you want.
4. Allow to dry.
I think the boys loved being told they can blow bubbles. They try to get away with that at most meal times, but it is a no no. This was fun for them to get all of their latent bubble blowing desires out :)
This boys went especially crazy. Make sure you have a lot of newspaper down. Any time his hands would get all painty, he just stuck them on his paper. Good idea huh? I think he actually went through quite a few papers. I also made sure they didn't get it on their clothes as I am sure this isn't washable (we used Josh's running shirts...)
It was a lot of fun!
The pictures turned out really cool (I want to do this again on watercolor paper.)
After it all this was our snack for the day. I have decided that these are my very favorite chocolate chip cookies (I have tried a million recipes!). I have found out that I usually have to add more flour than is called for and cook one to make sure it isn't going to be flat. They all turn out pretty and they are so good (as is the dough, which-let's be honest, is consumed as much as the cookies).
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