We have been so busy lately that we haven't had time to do some fun summer stuff. The kids are counting down the days until we leave for the beach so I thought why don't we make a countdown. My kids are into artsy stuff and crafts at the moment so it was perfect. I opened the craft bin to see what we had and what we could make and when I saw it I knew exactly what we could do. Maci had a few 4-H projects and a styrofoam ball cut in half was laying on top and as soon as I saw it I thought we could make a jellyfish. We grabbed it and spray painted it them found eyes for it and the kids used pipe cleaners for the legs or whatever they call them. 
Everyday when the kids wake up they take turn pulling off a leg. Hopefully this is will give us good luck and we will not see a single jellyfish while at the beach. We have been lucky out of 13 years we have had only 1 bad year with jellyfish.
Now if you have smaller kids you could always cut a shape out and glue it to each leg so they will have a visual of how many days are left. Or you could do like me and the kids count the legs.
We leave on July 26th
