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The anatomy of a toddler – a mechanical wonder
At first glance, a toddler looks like a human being, given a small one, but still a human being. Upon closer inspection this theory may be more farfetched than you would think and I am not talking about little demon horns being hidden under the hair, but actually the internal mechanics. Let’s start on the top and work our way down as we explore the mechanical wonders of the anatomy of a toddler. The head: There we have the already mentioned demon horns hiding under the hair line, which are perfectly retractable and will only appear here and there and often are mistaken for bumps after hitting something. And with the hitting things we already are on to the next marvel of a toddler: Apparent magneticism. Yes, a toddler’s head is a universal … Read entire article »
Operation Intentional Kindness Challenge – Week 4
In week 3, the challenges were: This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Plan a family act of kindness to do at some point over the next 4 weeks. Make sandwiches and deliver them to homeless people. Volunteer for an afternoon in a food pantry. Join in on a service project your church is doing. Write the date on your calendar and make it happen. Read an extra story at bedtime. Or read a story to your neighbor’s child. Or read stories to the kids at Barnes & Noble in the storytime area. Print out a photo of a friend or friend’s child from a past event. Jot a note with it and mail it the old fashioned way to that friend. Pay for the person behind you at the drive-thru, or pay for … Read entire article »
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Color palette nature hunt (walk time)
This was done pre-blog which explains the lack of and fuzzy photos but I will try my best to explain it. First I drew a color palette shape on a cardboard then I drew little color circles (that matched what I know can be found on our walk, color wise) where the paint goes on a real one and wrote the name under. I then put 2 sided sticky tape on each color circle, you could … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Home, Outdoors
Suncatcher rainbow hearts
This early afternoon Nico was getting restless, it had been raining (more like pouring) all morning, so I figured ok quick craft, suncatchers! So I got the coffee filters and the Rainbow Art Kit again and I got deserted! When getting the stuff upstairs in the “craft room”, he saw the bin of cloud dough and refused to come down without it. So I set him up on his little table (about a meter from me) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Everyday, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
Kool-Aid and Jell-O coloured (and scented) cloud dough
While Valerie and Nico were busy with their highly successful cloud dough (or “warm snow”, as Nico calls it), I went into the Glittering Muffins test kitchen to see, if I couldn’t whip up some colours and scents to add to the otherwise white and rather blah mix, once more going with our trusted Kool-Aid as magic component. To get the basic recipe, it is as easy as can be: Take 4 cups of flour … Read entire article »
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Valentine’s Day filled waffle bowl cakes
Two days ago was the Kool-Aid icing and yesterday was the Valentines Day filled mini muffins, today is the final post in this series. A while ago I was trying to come up with ways to make something else than mini muffins (Nico’s favorite) and after talking with my mom about it for a while we came up with ice cream waffle bowls! And the best thing about it is that it is super-easy to do! You … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English
Valentines Day filled mini muffins
So yesterday I told you about Kool-Aid icing, today we’ll talk about what we made to put the icing on it. Yep you guessed it, mini muffins! You will need: Mini muffin tins Paper for mini muffins White cake mix (required on the pack, oil, water & eggs) Cherry pie filling and or chocolate chip If you followed the recipe for the mini muffins for the firemen, we had put down Betty Crocker as the brand for the cake mix, since … Read entire article »
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Valentines Day Kool-Aid icing
Baking a little something special for Valentines Day, I thought we could make a special pink icing to go with it. You will need: White icing 1 packet of cherry Kool-Aid powder I didn’t make a lot of icing cause we aren’t big on icing in this house, but I’ll tell you what I did. I put some regular white icing into a bowl (about 1 heaping tablespoon) and added about a 1/4 of a teaspoon of cherry Kool-Aid powder … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Quick & easy Valentines Day card and envelope
We did this for one of our “Operation Intentional Kindness Challenge – Week 2 mission“. My neighbour has really rough Mondays every week, it’s the job and not the person in this case, lol. So we waited for Monday to do this. One of our missions was “Write a real letter or card (on paper, email does not count) to someone just to say hello and share something positive.” And as I realized, I know … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Valentine's Day
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