A Mom making a Difference through Grace
This was one fun summer activity we did. Needed: 1.Water 2.Food Color(I used Green,blue,red,Yellow) 3.Ice cube tray How To: 1.Make Colored Ice cubes with the above ingredients. 2.Get out a chart paper and enjoy painting. 3.Once Dash got bored.Got out some bottles with warm water and allowed him to make slush and play with it.
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I’ve always been in love with wooden alphabet blocks,but I thought they were way too pricey. So when I saw some cheap foam blocks on sale. I thought I’d make my own alphabet Blocks Needed: Cardboard from Cereal boxes Black Foam (to make the board) Foam Squares Foam Alphabet stickers. Everything less than a dollar.Check out Dollar section of Target. Procedure: Cut
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Inspired from Eric Carle’s ‘The very Hungry Caterpillar’ Needed: Cardstock(I used Yellow) Bits of Black Pipe Cleaner (to Make the antennae) Bits of Tissue Paper to make the butterfly(I had many leftover from Dash’s birthday gifts),I used Red,Blue and Yellow Procedure: 1.Cut the Shape of a Butterfly. 2.Glue the Pipe Cleaners as antennae. 3.Cut the Tissue Papers into Rectangles. 4.Dash
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This is my 100th post @ the GIM.com.Excited!All praise and glory to god.Came across this simple idea.It was a good hit with my little one.We had a fun day being all covered with powdered dough 🙂 Needed: 6 cups All purpose flour 3/4 cup oilSmall bowls to make molds Mix the two ingredients well.Until the dough forms a solid shape
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We did this for the weird animals VBS.I selected a craft Dash could also be a part of. Needed: Color Printer/Construction Paper(Red) 3 Pipe Cleaner(Red) Paper Plate Bottle Caps(for eyes) 1.Painted the bottle caps black for the eyes. 2.Painted the paper plate in Red,you can also get ready made Red Plates. 3.Punch 3 holes on the left side,punch 3 holes on
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Thought Ill post a few summer activities before summer ends 🙂 My friend Mathy suggested Water beads and I thought this would be great idea to build an ocean sensory box. Needed: Blue Water Beads Blue Pebbles Blue Food Color Sea Creatures Procedure: I soaked the water beads for 12 hours,to grow them really big. Add All Of them in
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Inspired by Eric Carle’s – “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” Needed: Cardboard(For the cereal box) Pom Poms 1 Black Pipe Cleaner (To make the antenae) Googly eyes Green Paper 1.Cut the Green Paper and Cardboard in the shape of a leaf and glue them together. 2.Glue bits of pipe cleaner to one of the Pom Poms.This will be the caterpillars head.
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We did this for the weird animals VBS.I selected a craft Dash could also be a part of. Needed: Color Printer/Construction Paper(Green) Paper Plate Googly Eye. 1.Painted the paper plate in Green,you can also get ready made Green Plates. 2.Dash got to glue the flippers and the head. 3.Add the Googly eye and a smile.4.Add bits of green paper for the
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I have to say this one truly turned out very well.And was a hit ! Ingredients: 2 cups flour2 cups warm water3/4 cup salt2 Tablespoons vegetable oil1 Tablespoon cream of tartar (optional for improved elasticity)Liquid food coloring3-4 drops of Vanilla extract(I didn’t want too much of sweet smelling dough,it only tempts the little ones) 1.Add everything together in a pan(I
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I’ve been wanting to introduce Dash to painting.So I started to look for homemade toddler safe paints and ended up with this concoction 😀 Needed: 1/3 cup all purpose Flour 1/2 cup cornflour(you can add more to thicken) 2 tbsp sugar 2 cups water vanilla extract(few drops,I didn’t want my paint all sweet smelling that it tempted little into putting
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