When there’s so much snow coming down outside I can’t help but think of warm, yummy food. And this Garlic Breadat Cooking With Annelooks delicious. Now if only I could get through the snow to the grocery store for some fresh garlic.
This messenger bagat Noodleheads is adorable! What a great way to use some of the dozens of old pants I can’t bear to part with….and make great gifts at the same time.
Then you probably have too many of these….. scattered all over your house.
So we took some toilet paper roll tubes and a juice carton and made a garage.
It only fits 8 cars, but they’re fun to make, and this way he can keep a ‘garage’ or two in a few different rooms to play with at will.
Some basic instructions.
We cut folded the end down on a juice carton and taped it with duct tape.
Next we cut a long front side leaving it attached at the long top side to make a garage door that folded upward.
We cut the toilet paper tubes so they would fit in the carton without the ends sticking out.
We used a hot glue gun to glue the tubes in the garage.
Next we spraypainted the whole thing silver.
He made a ‘Jarod’s Garage’ sign for on the front of the door. (which refused to have it’s picture taken….I discovered that white on shiny silver doesn’t photograph well).
Insert cars.
The end.
Oh, and Make more garages to fit all the other cars.
We haven’t been doing too much crafting lately as sickness has been running rampant through our house for 2 weeks…yuck.
But the good news is I spent lots of time discovering super blogs and lots of great projects to add to my crafty ‘to ‘do’ list.
I thought I’d share.
At Whimsy Love I found these fun Paint Color Notepads which would be great for the kids to make for themselves or as a party favor or as little gifts for friends anytime.
The Inadvertant Farmer made these adorable Sock Kitties which are too cute, and a must make for our Alexandra who loves anything kitty.
I love this simple Wall Art at Secret Pie Shoppe. She used Valentines for the holiday, but it would be adorable with circles, squares, snowmen…maybe letters in a favorite saying. How fun!
These Ice Wreaths for your wild animal friends by How Does She? are so neat. Since it is still (undesirably) freezing here I think we’ll be making these soon for our resident deer herd to eat so they quick snacking on all of my shrubs.
Perfect for Easter baskets and using up some fabric stash, these Secret Pocket Easter Eggs at Sew, Mama Sew will look beautiful tucked in everyones baskets this year.
I guess it’s part of being the youngest that I always get stuff last.
Like my knit blanket.
Mommy made everyone elses before mine. Now that she FINALLY started it she said it’s going to take her 6 months to finish it. 6 months! What am I going to do with a knit blanket in the middle of August.
At least I really like the colors. I even got to help pick them out because I’m such a big girl.
The PRINCESS SCHOOL BOOKS by Jane B. Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens
FANTASY. These books are based on fairy tale princesses Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Beauty attending their first year of Princess School.
MOM: Being princess books, these naturally appeal more to little girls, however most of the stories incoporate a boys charm school next door and therefore princes are represented. All the books had very interesting storylines that even my son enjoyed hearing me read them all to them. JAROD: (age 8): “I like the books because they had fun stories even if it they are about princesses.” MAKENNA: (age 8): ”I love Snow White because she’s really funny and loves animals, and the princesses were lots of fun and really good friends.”
MAIN CHARACTERS
Cinderella Brown. She lives with her nasty stepmother and stepsisters (who also attend Princess School)
Snow White. An always cheerful princess who adores animals and lives with seven dwarfs. She greatly fears her evil stepmother.
Rose (Beauty). She tires of always being considered perfect. She often resents being smothered by her overprotective parents and being constantly watched by an entourage of fairies who guard her.
Rapunzel Arugula. She’s somewhat of a tomboy, who climbs from her tower each day to go to school.
Prince Valiant (Val). He has been Rapunzel’s best friend for years and attends the Boys Charm School next door to The Princess School. STORYLINE
Follow the lives of the four princesses as they start their first year of Princess School and become the best of friends, while helping each other through all sorts of dilemas. Each story involves all the princesses and often hearkens back to their traditional princess stories dealing with evil stepmothers, witches and the seven dwarfs. There’s fun princess classes like Looking Glass Class where they learn to fix their hair, and Frog ID Class (Snow’s favorite), along with princess balls, tournaments, school plays and plenty of adventures.
SERIES
There are 7 books in this series, although an eighth book was planned and even titled, it was never published.
1. If the Shoe Fits 2. Who’s the Fairest? 3. Let Down Your Hair 4. Beauty is a Beast 5. Princess Charming (Our favorite as Rapunzel masquerades as a prince to enter the Charm School Boys jousting tournament) 6. Apple-y Ever After 7. Thorn in Her Side
EXTRA INFO
Each book is approximately 100 pages in length and has short chapters of 4-6 pages each. There are no illustrations in these books.
What do you do when you have lots of scraps of construction paper left over from a valentine project?
You recycle them by making mosaics….and a mess of lots of little tiny bits of paper. Of course.
But the kids have fun. And if you’re a neater person than I, you can put the different colors of cut up paper pieces each in their own little container so they don’t make such a big mess.
You’ll need, construction paper, a pencil, glue sticks and scissors.
First have the kids draw a simple drawing of a single item (like a heart), or a design (like a tree with clouds in the sky) on a piece of construction paper.
Next they cut the scrap paper in small pieces (this was my two year old’s favorite part.)
Now apply glue on a small part of the design and apply the small paper pieces within the lines. Kinda like coloring with paper instead of crayons.
The only rule is the pieces shouldn’t overlap and should be spaced somewhat evenly apart.
Continue applying glue and paper until the picture is done.
Now get out the vacumn.
Next plan. Since the kids had so much fun making these, I’m thinking of getting a big piece of posterboard and letting the kids draw a neat design to mosaic. Then in their free (”mommy what can we doooooo?”) time, they can get out their giant mosaic and work on it little by little. It might take a whole month or so to finish and then we’d have a really neat piece of big art to hang in the kids play area.
1. A chat I recently overheard between my eight year old twins.
Makenna: “I finally decided what I want to do. I want to be a scientist and take care of animals.”
Jarod: “If the baseball thing doesn’t work out, I’ll join you.”
2. I honestly can say I never ever realized just how much of my life would be taken up with doing laundry. (and I even make the twins do most of theirs.) Washing it, drying it or hanging it out to dry. Sorting it, putting it away. I want a laundry service.
3. Do you think the dogs appreciate that I shovel special paths through the snow for them to be able to walk around and go potty?
……the answer is no. I put them out, and they proceeded to stumble through 17 inches of snow rather than walk in the paths.
