I love the dad in the book That’s Not How You Play Soccer Daddy by Sherry Shahan! The dad in this wonderful book realizes his son is taking his job as team captain and his playing of soccer over seriously. He wants him to enjoy the game the way the other kids do.
Actually, the other kids would gather explore an anthill rather than plays soccer. Mikey thinks every rule should be followed.
After practice, his dad takes to a different part of the park for lunch and to play. Mikey just wants to practice.
Mikey’s wise dad thinks he should play shoeless, with the family dog and with his hands. After a tickle fest with his dad, Mikey agrees with his dad.
Sometimes you just have to have fun.
What did we do with this book?
Created a Game with Tomato Cages
I planted two tomato cages across from each other in the yard imagining we would play a game that combined soccer and basketball.
JDaniel looked at the cages and decided that one cage was the starting line. You then had to run around two bushes and a tree before heading across the yard to drop the ball in the far tomato cage.
My game was a little simpler, but his game turned out to be lots of fun. Sometimes it is fun to just take out some materials and see what fun game you can create.
Made Ice Tea Playdough
Sun Hats & Wellie Boots, Nurturestore, & The Imagination Tree are asking bloggers to take the PPlaydoughPledge this week. What is the pledge? It is to try to make a new kind of play dough this week.
JDaniel and I started with the basic no-cook play dough found on Sun Hat & Wellie Boots using flour, salt, oil, and boiling water. We added to it a packet of ice tea powder. JDaniel’s dad loves sweet tea and since we had read a book about a dad, I thought it would be fun.
The play dough we made turned a tan color, but really didn’t smell like sweet tea. I didn’t dump in a full packet of Lipton’s Tea and Honey and that may have kept the full scent of the tea from coming to the surface of the playdough.
We had fun playing with it anyway.
What adventures have you had with books this week?
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What a great idea to use tomato cages as hoops. I would have never thought about it!
I’ve never heard of ice tea playdoh before!
How cute! Tomato cages- that is awesome!! IIngenious!
Such great ideas! I love your idea for this link up!
The iced tea play dough looks fun! Thanks for sharing and offering a link up!
what a great idea! Thank you for sharing! You are so creative!
The book looks really cute and it think the iced tea play doh is a neat idea!
I have a serious rule follower in my house. We will have to check out this book. Thanks for sharing this fun idea and for hosting!
What a great link up! We live by this sort of learning; doing a project or activity or outing and connecting it and extending it with books. I love the idea of sharing via link up and found some more blogs to follow today. Thanks for doing this!
Cute book and activities! We’ll have to check this out!
Looks like your son is having a great summer!
I love the idea for making different kinds of play dough!
The tomato cage “hoops” is a great idea!
Sounds like a cute book!
Must be a very cute book ! all little boys love to play soccer (we call it football) except my son, he never liked it, he prefered basket ball ! With his size of 6.6 already at 15 it was the ideal sport for him !
Love the tomato cage ball game!
Sounds like a great book! I know a lot of parents that take kid games too seriously – sounds like a great dad in the book!
J Daniel is very creative! I like his tomato cage game. 🙂
Looks supercute 🙂
What a lovely idea. I have added you to my memes library.
I love this 🙂 thanks for sharing!
I love your game!!! Very inventive!
And I have to say I am a bit jealous of those awesome alphabet cookie cutters. I think I need some! lol
Thanks for hosting this party! 🙂
Love the tea playdough idea. Yum!
Love all of the ideas here! The book sounds great. I love that it inspired you to create a game. And the sweet tea play dough was very thoughtful. 🙂
It looks like a great book to read for Father’s Day!
Oooh Ice Tea playdough! Sounds fun!
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy & Alissa
Iced tea play dough sounds like a winner in our home!
Love how kids can have a totally different take on game than we do.
that book sounds wonderful, I will have to go find it in the library
I would have never thought of using a tomato cage for a hoop.
Love the ice tea playdough. What a great idea. And great to explore the letters for DAD.
oooh ice tea play dough sounds good!
I love how you let JDaniel change the game up. It sounds like something my kid would want to do!
That sounds a wonderful book – we haven’t got many Dad books will add it to our wish list.
ooh, iced tea playdough. Excellent!
Iced tea playdough, wow how original!
Ice tea play dough is a new one for me. Love finding new ways to play with play dough!
Adding iced tea to the play dough was such a sweet touch since his Dad loves ice tea!