Necklace Food ~ Threading Fun

  Supplies for necklace                        Good hand-eye coordination                      Munching

We have small plastic needles from a sewing puppet craft and I thought just maybe it might work to make a Cheerio necklace. It did work! Everett threading his is so cute, he's only two so I was impressed. Charlotte helped him do most of his though. When he chowed through his necklace and let the puppies lick it a few times (haha) he tried eating the one Penelope had made. They had fun making these! 

Super Easy Spring Food Fun: Bird Nest Rice Krispie Treats

Make rice krispie treats

Baby spills Rice Krispie cereal all over (omit this step)

Other family members want in on the fun!

Spray cooking oil in muffin cups (or use butter) and on kids' hands. When Rice Krispies are warm (not hot!), give a small blob of it to the kids. They make nests in the muffin cups with their hands. Let krispie treats harden and set up firm (few minutes). Add chocolate eggs and peeps as your chicken/bird

They added a few pretzel sticks to some for their nests.
You can use Cocoa Krispies for darker nests, or just a few sprinkles of baking chocolate when you are melting the marshmallow in the pot will darken them, too.

This was a simple, easy project.

English Muffin Pizzas

English muffins, pasta sauce, cheese, olives

I'm not a huge fan of these, they are just okay to me, but I love how easy and fast they are. The kids always eat them up! You can use bagels instead. (Use mini bagels if you want to make your own "bagel bites.") Yesterday we made them because I didn't have enough cheese for everyone in the house to make their own personal pizza with real pizza dough, but I did have enough cheese for these.

Create!

What can kids do with marshmallows, grapes, peanut butter, apples, Cheerios, and toothpicks?

They can do a lot of creating and building!

Snowman Pancakes

Corn Bin

Fall fun means a corn bin to play in!

Sure you are shaking corn out from their britches 3x a day and you have to sweep the porch a lot, but it's fun that lasts and lasts. They play for hours! All you need is few bucks for a bag of whole corn at a feed store, an old playpen, and some toys!

Noodle Art

You can dye spaghetti noodles and make art with them. They stick by themselves because of the gluten in the noodles/flour. They don't last long. When dry and get super stiff the noodles shrink and will break off eventually. Fun for temporary art though. Also good to make numbers and letters with for preschool.

Funniest thing was when Layla and Penelope put some pictures on the fridge
and then I caught Aslan eating the art work!! LOL!

Ice Cream Tasting Contest

We took a bunch of ice creams, in this case 5 different flavors, and put them in plastic grocery bags (double bagged) with their lids off. We labeled each bag 1-5 with a sticky note stapled to them. We kept track of guesses on a piece of paper. It was a cute, fun game.