Egg carton up-cycle game!

Egg cartons? Check

Bright ping pong ball? Check

game is on!!!

RAINY DAY FUN!

Such a quick game to put together and hours of fun!!!

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Upgraded slime

We’ve been going strong with slime in our family and EVERY time the girls have a playdate, especially Lily’s (10) friends, they want to make slime.

So…. it’s time to shake it up and try something else.

translucent slime with beads

Ingredients needed:

1. 1 cup Clear Elmer’s Glue

2. 1/4 cup Stay Flo Liquid Starch + 1/4 cup warm water

3. 1-2 drops of food dye

4. beads, add to hearts desire

Simple recipe:

1. Mix thoroughly 1/4 cup Sta Flo + 1/4 warm water, let cool down set aside.

2. Use a large bowl to mix in the glue with food coloring - start with 1-2 drops and add as needed. (The more drops are added, the less the slime will remain translucent AND the more the color will stain your hands).

3. Slowly add in the starch/water mix to the glue. Mix in throughly, and keep mixing until the slime starts taking shape, about 10 min. Add in the beads one handful at a time.

Blurry but in motion! The slime still needed for a good 10 min before it finds its “form”

Storing slime!

We’ve found a new use for old ice cream containers…

AND

We put some in a sandwich ziplock bag to take with us when we are out. We went out to dinner and Lily took some slime with her and played with it until dinner arrived.

Carabiner key chain gift idea

Carabiners..... just learned that it's the word for this key chain

Thinking ahead for some gift ideas that the girls and I put together for their teachers at the end of the school year. 

simple items - and can all be purchased at the hardware store! (instead of DMC thread, the hardware store has just or soft thin leather strips by the yard)

It's quite easy and straight forward THOUGH don't let the girls do the superglue/gorilla glue yet...

Valentine's day Cards

The girls want to get their valentine's day cards ready for next week, so off we went to Paper Source to get some ideas.  Last year we made the cards from scratch but this year, because we all caught seasonal colds, we thought of getting a Valentine's day set to help us along...

Both girls picked the Milk & Cookies Valentine's day set.

It's so easy to put together!

Last year Lily and Bella made little hearts with bubble notes....  very cute, simple and 100% handmade.... we attached a lollipop and shared it with classmates....

It was a great project where Lily and Bella worked together.  Lily drew the hearts for Bella, who was four back then, and Bella cut them out.   They loved doing this together!

Homemade ArtBot!

Lily made this for her school's science project and we LOVED it!  

The kids at school got to pick a project from the Science Buddies website.  Lily picked the Art Bot.

We bought all the bits and pieces separately and put it together ourselves... Adult assistance needed but fun! 

AA batteries (2)

2xAA battery holder

3 volt DC motor

Plastic cup, 16 oz.

Cork

Popsicle stick

Thin washable markers (3)

White posterboard pieces or any kind of large paper.

Double-sided foam tape

Electrical tape

Scissors

Small Phillips-head screwdriver

Optional: Arts and crafts materials to decorate your robot (googly eyes, pipe cleaners, etc.)

Optional: Digital camera to take pictures of your posterboards

Volunteer to help you run your experiments

Lily then made more bots with 4 and 5 markers on each cups.  

We decided that taping the paper to the floor was easier as the bot kept falling off the table!

Electric Lemon!

Bella got this Lemon clock kit as a birthday party favor!

A perfect weekend activity to do!

It's super easy and why not go ahead and add more to this activity?.... We've got a fridge full of fruit and veggies and were willing to experiment with them!

Holiday decorating

Love arts and crafts to keep our little fingers busy and getting into the holiday mood.

Since we needed extra pieces to decorate the back of the wreath, Lily traced some of the leaf shapes from the kit and cut them up.

Paper wreath!

Since we were traveling and had limited suitcase space, we opted for a ready to assemble kit.

We opted for a paper source wreath kit.

We hung the wreath between two rooms so we made sure to decorate the back as well as the front... it was a big hit!

Bella added some original designs of her own!

Final result, helped get the room into the holiday spirit!