Eclipse

[happymom]

Forgive me if I missed an already existing thread on this. Are any of you guys doing anything for the eclipse with the kids?

I am actually feeling super guilty for sending my kids (especially my 5 year old) to daycare today. It feels like I'm sending him on a holiday and I wish my family could be together for the eclipse.

I took a pair of eclipse glasses with me to drop off in case they would be outside during the eclipse, but I was told they will be staying inside and my heart kind of broke a little bit. Wondering if any of you guys are doing anything with the kids?

We are near Salt Lake City, so only have like 92% coverage, but there's no clouds, so it'll be perfect to watch!

[hwichlaz]

Today's eclipse craft. We're tracing plates on construction paper....black paper for the moon (we'll use chalk to decorate) and yellow for the sun. We're going to make a hole in the moon craft, and use it to shine the eclipse shadow onto the sun craft.

[Blackcat31]

We won't "see" much where I am located but for those interested in "safely" watching, here is the link to NASA's live coverage

https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive/#NASA+TV+Public+Channel

[storybookending]

The eclipse is at its peak here right in the middle of nap time. Nothing but clouds here currently anyways.

[hwichlaz]

Here are ours. <3

[happymom]

Blackcat!

Thanks for the link, that's wonderful. I keep going outside of work to check on it and IT IS SO COOL!!!! I thought all the hype was dumb, but it really is pretty neat.

I've got a live cam up, too!

[Pandaluver21]

We are in Colorado,so we'll get pretty full coverage! We were going to stay inside, but the kids all brought glasses (and one brought a welding mask ) so we'll give it a go!

[Blackcat31]

Here are ours. <3

An area provider shared this craft....I thought it was super cute!

[LysesKids]

I'm in the totality zone... totality will hit about 2:34. Most my parents got the day off due to business closings so only one babe showed - that said, all my parents KNEW I had proper glasses weeks ago so we could view outside. Most of them don't have the glasses so I'm not sure how they are handling it

[Jupadia]

We ate not in the path of totality but we did do a craft and showed kids a you tube vidio. Will skip showing them cause they are all 4 and under so even with the proper glasses I'm not risking it.

[hwichlaz]

An area provider shared this craft....I thought it was super cute!

Wow, thank you. I love it! I think I can through together the stuff for that at nap time and then we'll do it after snack.

[LysesKids]

We are in Colorado,so we'll get pretty full coverage! We were going to stay inside, but the kids all brought glasses (and one brought a welding mask ) so we'll give it a go!

Make sure that welding mask is a 14 or higher; the lower #'d ones won't save the eyes

[Leigh]

Unfortunately, we had unforecasted storms start around 7AM, and it is still cloudy with more rain on the way. I bought eclipse glasses for all my kids months ago, and for another provider friend, too. We were all going to go out and watch. Instead, we watched on TV, went outside and drew eclipse pictures on the sidewalks, and then came back in and watched the total eclipse on TV before naptime. My kids were SO excited, so I'm really bummed. The kids are mostly just happy to have their eclipse glasses, though, so there is a little happiness/success today!

[happymom]

Very cool!

I got a phone call from my daycare center asking for written permission for them to take my son outside and view with his glasses. I was told this morning that they had planned for all the kids to stay inside during it, I am so happy they called me to see if he could go out.

I'm enjoying watching it from here, even though we still had a sliver of sun. I'm glad my baby will get to see it, too. He will think it's very cool!

[Mom2Two]

We stayed inside with live coverage on. I snuck out to look at the shadows on our backyard bike path though, because when the sun comes through leaves, it makes little eclipse shadows on the path.