Heroes Book Club

I'm always looking for fun new things to incorporate into our routine, especially now that we are starting to have a bit more predictability in our lives again. In our new ward, we have lots and lots of boys the same ages as ours. So, we felt that we could once again put together a Kids' Book Club and get some good participation. This time, however, we are calling it the "Heroes Book Club" because we are reading a series of biographies about real historical heroes, such as Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, the Wright Brothers, etc.

Our first book was called "The Wright Brothers: They Gave Us Wings," by Charles Ludwig. We loved this book and found it so inspiring! So we were happy to share it with our friends. We held our first Heroes Book Club meeting here at our house on Friday afternoon, with 13 kids participating. We invited all boys, so our little Coco was the only girl (bless her heart!).

The kids were all so excited about having their own book club! And the first meeting was a smash hit. We loved it! First, Chase led a discussion about the book and then facilitated an activity based on the book. His choice was to do a paper airplane flying tournament, using a catapult system he designed. He prepared a bracket for tracking the winners and did all the preparations. And, guess who won? Chase was the champion and Avery was the second place winner . . . and no, it wasn't fixed! Ha ha!

We finished off with a treat, which included some Valentine's candy, a big batch of Monkey Munch (a.k.a. Muddy Buddies), and a chocolate fondue with fresh fruit and marshmallows. The chocolate fondue idea came from the book, because the Wright Brothers were obsessed with making the perfect, lump-free brown gravy. We didn't want to serve brown gravy, but a chocolate fondue was perfect to LOOK like brown gravy, but tasted much better!

Here are a few pictures from the event. So fun!

Courtney had fun being the youngest and the only girl!

Well, I guess she wasn't the youngest, since we had Trey there! This sweet boy was trying to get him to smile.