St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and we are enjoying some fun projects to celebrate our Irish heritage! My maternal grandfather was Irish and I love sharing traditions with my little family đŸ™‚ St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal around here. This week we are doing rainbow activities! As a fun sensory project we colored some beans in rainbow colors for our sensory bin. Continue reading “A Rainbow of Beans”
Have you seen the new animated movie Frozen?! My kids LOVED it! I think my girls fell so in love with the movie because of the two princesses are sisters. They enjoy pretending they are sister princesses also đŸ™‚ This week the girls and I did some crafts that go along with Elsa’s character (the older sister) so they could play Frozen dress-up. Continue reading “Frozen Dress-Up DIY”
My kids love to cook. This morning they asked to make something we could share at lunchtime. So I came up with hot chocolate pudding cups. Simple, yummy and cute… Continue reading “Hot Chocolate Pudding”
It’s winter, so the amount of outdoor play is limited. This means that I am always looking for easy projects indoors for my kids. As a winter afternoon project yesterday we made snow paint! It was fun to make and paint/play with! Continue reading “Winter Art: Snow Paint”
Happy Tuesday friends! I just delivered a fun cake for a little boy’s birthday party tonight. I thought I would share since it seems to be a pretty popular theme for boys lately. It is a Minecraft Cake and cupcakes. Although I have to admit ignorance here, until I was asked to make this cake I had no idea what Minecraft was and had to do research first :). Continue reading “Minecraft Cake and Cupcakes”
For the last few weeks in science my kids have been learning about our Solar System. We have studied the Sun, Moon, stars, planets, and other bodies in the Solar System. It has been a lot of fun teaching and seeing them get so excited about our Solar System! I was trying to come up with a fun craft project while we were studying stars and I was in the middle of brainstorming how to get my kids to brush their teeth long enough. I put both things together and came up with this…
Now that it is fall I have lots of great activities I cannot wait to do with my kiddos! One we did last week was a blast and the kids played with it for almost an hour. I have let the kids play in shaving cream on our dinning room table before since it is fun to write in and just a fluffy sensory experience. This time though I wanted to give it a fall twist and tried a few new things.
The summer is winding down now, only a few more weeks until it is officially fall. My kids are hanging onto summer as long a they can! A few nights ago we came home at dusk and the lightning bugs were out. Our oldest of course initiated a lightning bug hunt :). We keep some ball jars just for this and in the spirit of the end of summer I thought I would share. Continue reading “Lightning Bug Jars”
My Crazy Blessed Life! 