Supplies for Giant Ice Cream Cone Craft: Three large white paper plates – We used Styrofoam plates about 8 inches wide Brown card stock Colorful pompoms in different sizes Acrylic colors – Pink & Yellow Sponge brush Tacky Glue Scissors Brown Marker & A foot ruler How to Make a Giant Ice Cream Cone Craft Use this Giant Ice Cream Cone Craft as a prop for pretend play ( we used it as a sign for our make believe Ice cream shop) or as a Summer party decor....
A few days later, I made a special batch of pie dough just for cookies. This time I filled them with apple plum butter and they were a real treat for my hungry kids when they came home from school. You could use whatever filling you like–even frosting. I’ve given these a little twist by brushing them with egg and sprinkling them with spiced sugar. The filling is jam–your favorite kind, or using chocolate, dulce de leche, fruit butters, or jelly would be nice too....
The good news is, kids are just as impressed by simple ideas as they are by show-stopping ideas. Here are a few quick party games I threw together in just minutes at my youngest son’s first birthday party. The kids had a great time with these activities, and I was so happy that they took minimal time and preparation to pull off. The best last-minute games use things you already have on hand, and are simple to understand and quick to learn....
Materials for Tic Tac Toe Cardboard Magnets Glue gun Marker Cut out circles out of cardboard. You need 10 of them. Then, using marker draw 5 “X” sings and 5 “O”. Flip the cardboard circles over and using hot glue attach the magnet pieces. Your Tic Tac Toe game is almost ready. To play it you need to draw big hashtag sign on the fridge (we used white board marker for easy clean up) and let the fun begin....
I had everything for this project already in my supply stash and I bet you might too. If you don’t you can surely find everything you need at your local craft store. Supplies for Name Memory Game: Wooden discs (you’ll need enough wooden discs to use every letter in your child’s name twice. So for Oliver, I used 12 discs) Elmer’s glue card stock craft punch letter stickers I began this project by using the craft punch to make circles out of the colored card stock....
Supplies for Olympic Ring Hoop Loop: 5 embroidery hoops (could be any type of hoop that can fit around a bottle) 2-liter plastic bottle ribbon, crepe paper, or tissue paper in Olympic Ring colors tape Decorate your 2-liter plastic bottle with something festive. We chose to wrap it up in “icy” blue crepe paper, pretending it’s an ice sculpture. Wrap, cover, or tape your embroidery hoops in each of the 5 Olympic ring colors....
The thing I love the most about a calendar like this is that it is good year after year because it doesn’t change. It’s just a simple list: 1-31 without the days of the week. Supplies for a Birthday Calendar: sheet metal – found at Home Depot rectangular wood frame tin snips – to cut metal spray paint – optional craft paper tape embellishments – something fun to decorate it with magnet...
This year I decided to wrap my mom’s gift using an old photograph of her when she was a child. It’s one of my favorites and I know it’s going to make her smile. For this project you could also use a photo of you and mom from your childhood, one of your children or even a shot from a favorite family vacation. Supplies for Mother’s Day Gift Wrap:...
These binders are probably made for in an office setting, but as a busy mom, these are perfect for keeping my children’s papers organized! With all the crafting we do and the school paperwork they bring home, it’s starting to pile up. I’ve decided it’s time to take control over the piles and get organized. I try to evaluate what papers I’d like to keep for memories. Some of it, I hate to say, gets put in the recycle bin....
I love to experiment with paints and painting, right alongside my daughters, but I am definitely an amateur. Painting swirly flowers are as simple as can be, but with frame-worthy results. We can’t stop making them! I think you and your kids will have fun combining colors and creating your own uniquely beautiful swirly flowers. I think these swirly flower paintings look especially nice mounted on black paper. They would make gorgeous bookmarks, too!...
The original book, Olivia, details Olivia’s favorite activities, including deciding what to wear, building sandcastles of famous buildings, gazing at fine works of art at a museum and refusing to nap. Olivia has some opinions about a Jackson Pollock piece at the museum. “I could do that in about five minutes.”, she tells her mother. And then, she does. So my daughter and I decided to create an Oliva-Jackson Pollock masterpiece....
I’ve shared my Mom’s delicious Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake before, so I tried making a pie this time, perfect for a Mother’s Day dessert. Recipe: 2 cups cut up rhubarb 2 cups cut up strawberries 1/3 cup cornstarch 1 cup sugar 2 T lemon juice Topping: 3/4 c. sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter pie crust – store bought is fine, but I like to make Martha Stewart’s Pie Crust...
This is a great project for a group to work on together, maybe for a play date or family art night. You’ll want to make at least four painted hearts for cutting apart. We made eight, so we could have more variety when piecing the hearts together. You can use any size paper you like. I cut 9×12″ watercolor paper in half for our project, making the finished hearts a good size to glue onto a piece of construction paper, while still leaving a border....
Even better, you can make a bigger batch ahead of time to freeze them and reheat them for a couple of minutes in the microwave when you want to serve them. Just allow them to completely cool down before placing them in a ziplock bag and then in the freezer. Breakfast, light lunch on the go, even dinner if you add a salad on side, this recipe is so versatile and perfect!...
Cute Food for Kids – I love all her darling ideas for dressing up food, so clever Muffin Tin Mom – These same ideas for muffin tins could be put into lunches for school Family.com – Sharing loads of ideas for school lunch Good Housekeeping – 30 ideas for kid’s lunches The Family Kitchen – 12 kid inspired lunch ideas For something fun to add to my kids lunches, I’ve partnered up with Lindi of Love the Day again to create these fabulous lunchbox notes....
Heart Hand-Stitched Card Puzzling Valentine Card Pop-up Heart Card
Here’s an update on what I’m growing and how it’s all fitting in the square foot garden. It’s all been planted since May 9th (peas went in April 25th): I ended up skipping on the carrots and planting more beans. I may have to pull one or two of the bean plants though. The packet said it needed 6 inches apart and I only did it 6 inches by 4 inches....
My hubby and I love East Indian food and Thai food, (another love discovered in the last couple of years, I was missing out). So searching for Thai recipes, I found this great one for Grilled Pork with peanut dipping sauce. It resembles Satay sauce that comes in Thai food, Yum. I used pork, but you can use chicken. This would be great with chicken on a skewer. I made the sauce first, using half as a marinade for the pork tenders....
Look familiar? This could go on for weeks. Maybe even months! And you may have to go through this for 20 teeth! Kids start losing their teeth at about 6 years old (It’s easy to spot 1st and 2nd graders by their jack-o-lantern smiles) and will keep losing them until they are about 12. Well, this might just solve your problem. Tooth Fairy Special Ad! A special ad from the Tooth Fairy announcing Double Dollar Days!...
Hi, Lucy here! I’m excited to be writing all about our recent family outing. My family and I love to go geocaching. We always love trading trinkets in the geocaching boxes, also the fun of finding them. When Ford gave us a car to test out, we went and drove around Seattle and found a few geocaching boxes. Here’s a little more about our adventure! A few quick things I loved about the Ford car we used were the middle seats with air conditioning and seat warmers....
