Posts Tagged ‘kid tips’

A couple of months ago, in Family Fun Magazine I read about using small cereal boxes as postcards. I thought it was a cute idea, but shelved it because we NEVER get those little boxes.
Lo and behold our camping trip came along and we “needed” a variety of cereal for all our camping buddies!
To make the postcards…

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The address and a short message fit snugly on the back.
Any kiddo will be tickled pink to receive such a fun postcard.
We sent the first 2 postcards we made to the precious kiddos we sponsor in Africa through Compassion.
AND we have a growing stack at home. Who knows, you might have a surprise in your mailbox…

PS
Postage for postcards is $0.28!!






Don’t forget about our Remember High School Carnival on August 18th! Details here.

Getting Eli to pick up his blocks is a huge pain in the arse… so now I trick him into it.
Bad parenting?
Oh well!
I say “Eli, now it’s time to build the tallest tower of all!!”
He gathers every block to make the awesomest creation ever.
Then Mommy only has to put one giant “block” back into the block bag. Not such bad parenting… right?

I love crafts!
Eli is finally getting to the age where we can start to create things together and I LOVE it. This is a crayon project straight from my childhood.
Recycle (I’m so Green) broken crayons and the ones with the tips worn down… because we all know we only use the nice sharp ones!!!

Peel the wrappers off all the crayons. I did this the night before (with help from my hot hubby) and it really helped. Hot Hubby used a razor blade to slice the wrapper and they came right off… huge time saver!

Separate the crayons by color and grab a cute toddler (yours I hope!).

Be Silly…

I didn’t want my crayons to be big blobs of brown/grey so I separated them into like colors.

I did do one rainbow crayon as a tester. The trick with the rainbow crayon is to pull it out before it has melted too much… just when the top looks wet. That way the colors don’t bleed into each other too much. I think I did mine just a bit too long.
Preheat oven to 225 and put the muffin tin in for about 5 minutes for the rainbow crayons and about 10 for the solid colored crayons.
Pull out and let cool. If you are in a hurry, put them in the fridge or freezer. Be sure not to drop them… that clean up would be grueling…ug…

I heart them!! I did try one layered one… that was a little more complex. You melt the bottom layer color in the muffin tin, while it is cooling use a can (throw away soup can is great) to melt the next color. Pour it on top of the first layer in the tin. Keep going for as many layers as you want… notice I only did two… it is kinda time consuming. Layers would be great for older kids because there is more stuff to do.

This was so fun! I hope you enjoy it too

We pretend that the tiny duplo blocks are people even though they don’t look like people… till today…
You can’t color on blocks!! Wait a minute… I’m the mom. I have fun. It is good to be “Mom!”

I got this idea from my friend Ester (http://www.sewingtheseed.com/)…
Use your daughter’s baby dresses for shirts as they grow! Here is Cora in a 0-3 month dress, then and now…