tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37831649364351454742024-03-18T01:26:01.232-07:00Kara's Creative PlaceMusicalMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202088552092965426noreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783164936435145474.post-1690982231108795482014-08-14T12:48:00.001-07:002014-08-14T12:49:12.023-07:00A Fond Fairwell<div style="text-align: center;">
I must inform you that I am not planning on blogging on this blog again. I will putting most of my crafting efforts toward being Creative Ideas Director for The <a href="http://www.thehoodmagazine.com/">Hood Magazine</a>.</div>
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I will however leave my blog active.</div>
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MusicalMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202088552092965426noreply@blogger.com126tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783164936435145474.post-23182951960493813242013-11-02T18:00:00.003-07:002013-11-02T18:00:47.909-07:00Glow Fun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I rarely blog anymore, but I couldn't resist posting about the fun we had today. This was a little discovery I made back when I taught preschool almost 9 years ago now and I have never shared this idea with anyone outside that daycare center so I feel I needed to tell the world somehow.</div>
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Kid K'nex are a staple toy at many preschool centers, they are durable and a great building toy. But did you know that they glow in a black light. Yep! This creates a whole new sensory activity. We did this around Halloween time and the kids built bats, monsters, and spiders that glow in the dark.</div>
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My kids had their tent set up inside for a little camp-in for daylight savings weekend so I grabbed our black light from our college years and put it up at the top of the tent. We simply dumped the Kid K'nex out and surprised the kiddos with glow fun.</div>
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Wearing glow or neon clothes just add to the fun.</div>
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We also had to teach them that highlighter ink also glows. While we didn't teach them to write on the tent walls like we did with our dorm room walls back in college, (because you can only see it when the black light is on) I did allow them to use their body as their art canvas. Again you can barely see it when the lights are on and arms and legs are covered here this time of year anyway. </div>
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It was a big hit in their books, so I felt I simply must share this with all of you. So may glow activities these days involve a large mess. This one still has all the glow power, with very little mess to clean up.</div>
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After searching the Internet for entertainment ideas to bring camping I did find a good idea here or there, but when it came right down to it some of the list were just vague.</div>
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Like one that said bring entertainment. Yet other than screens it gave no examples of what to bring. Considering I didn't even bring screens on our five day state park camping trip and we had tons to do and I never heard I am bored It kind of made me laugh.</div>
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So I wanted to share what I brought camping this trip.</div>
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<strong>KIDS CAMPING TOYS 2013</strong></div>
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1. <strong>Good sized Rubbermaid tub</strong>- This holds all the items that are fine for the kids to dig into. When the day is done all the items end up back in this bin. It is kind of like the camping toy box. We packed all other items in this tub so they were ready to go. (we skipped the lid)<br />
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2. <strong>Frisbees-</strong> 4 was our magic number. We used them to play catch, used them to dig in the sand at the beach, as mud pie plates, with the help of a bunch of cottonwood trees we had a great round of Frisbee golf one evening. You can even use them for bases when we play kickball or baseball.<br />
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3. <strong>Sidewalk Chalk</strong>- We broke into this right away and decorated the sidewalk to our state park cabin with camp themed drawings of fires and marshmallows on sticks, giant fish we planned to catch when we fished and of course the words Camping 2013. It was a great way to claim our campsite and make it our own. A simple bucket of water on the last day will take care of any art that you don't want to leave for the next campers. Plus it rained our last night which took care of it anyway.<br />
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4. <strong>Small Metal Buckets</strong>- Our kids each have a little metal bucket. They used them to collect nature items they want to keep. They are sturdy so they can carry anything without breaking. They used them on a scavenger hunt, fossil hunting (if it is permitted where you camp) and to build sand castles with. These were used almost everywhere they went. Size is important. If the bucket is too large it will get to heavy and they will want you to carry it, also you want to keep collected treasures to those really important ones and not take everything home with you so keep the bucket size small. We got ours at <a href="http://www.worldmarket.com/product/metal-pail.do">world market for around $6</a>.<br />
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5. <strong>Sling shot</strong>- Yep I said it, our daughter has a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Pine-Slingshot-Leather-Pouch/dp/B00A998CCA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_sg_4">sling shot</a>, made our of some wood, some rubber bands and a small rectangle of leather. You may think tossing and skipping rocks into the lake is fun, but trying to see how far you can shoot them with a sling shot is WAY FUN! They listen well and never shot anywhere but into the lake not in a swimming area.<br />
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6. <strong>Kite</strong>- Yep we bring a kite, we had an awesome <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Parafoil-Tie-Dye-13-21/dp/B000LZ8LA0/ref=pd_sim_t_15">airfoil kite</a> that has no sticks but just a soft structured one that folds up into a small pouch even though it is a great sized kite. My husband had it ever since he was a little boy.... and he still would if it didn't get caught in a dead tree branch. Oh well it was super fun while it lasted, might want to make super sure you are away from all trees for this one, but if it is a windy day it is a great thing to bring.<br />
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7. <strong>Six Small Bottles of Craft Paint and Brushes</strong>- Toss in a butter dish too. The lid can be the pallet and the dish for water (we actually used lake water in our dish to wash our brushes since we were that close. What did we paint? This year we painted sticks! They turned our great! Walking sticks or just small colorful striped sticks. Sticks were abundant and a great new medium to pain on. You can also paint rocks, or make some great leaf prints by painting leaves and stamping with them. What is better than to do a messy paint project someplace where you know everyone is going to be dirty anyway and where the mess is outside and there is very little clean up. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DecoArt-DASK264-Americana-Primary-Sample/dp/B003ULND64/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1372968787&sr=8-15&keywords=craft+paint">Regular craft paint</a> makes great face paint too, it just peels off when it dries.<br />
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8. <strong>Clip board and scrap paper and pens</strong>- We stapled our paper together with one corner staple this way if it fell it would not blow away but stay together. We used it for paper airplanes, paper boats we folded and raced, fire starter, drawing, for a journal, list making, score keeping, scavenger hunts. It was super handy, and more open ended than a spiral bound notebook.<br />
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9. <strong>Kids Metal Detector</strong>- This was the one big thing on my daughters list for her birthday and to be honest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bounty-Hunter-BHJS-Junior-Detector/dp/B0007VBRUE/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1372969073&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=kids+metal+detector">we found a decent one on Amazon for around $50</a> which if you ask me is less than much of what could have been on her list. She turned 8 this year and she and her cousin who is in 4th grade spent hours using it while camping. They found 6 bottle caps, 25 nails around the campfire pit, two pop cans, and 14 cents in the sand at the beach. <br />
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10. <strong>Scrap Cardboard to make Stick Swords- <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/branch-holder-turns-dead-sticks-into-awesome-swords/">Click here for example</a> </strong>The reason we brought the scrap cardboard this time was to make swash buckling swords. My boys are all about light sabers but I made them keep them at home. I instead told them I had another idea to make swords at camp. This idea worked great. Just find a good sword stick, and add some cardboard to the bottom curved from the top of your hand around your hand to the bottom of the stick. We had our box cutter along to make this easier as well.<br />
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11. <strong>Bubbles - </strong>I honestly think bubbles are a must if you have a child under 5. My older two who are 6 and 8 were not super interested in them but my 4 year old played with them plenty and was interested in them more than some of the other items that appealed more to the older crowd.<br />
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12. <strong>Four Square Ball</strong>- Honestly this got used the least out of our items but did get used once. There was a little game of soccer that broke out for a few minutes, but was soon over when the kids opted for the playground instead. For the space it took up, next time for our kids ages, we may leave it at home but I can see how older kids may really get into playing kickball using the Frisbees as bases, or even a game of 500 by drop kicking it.<br />
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13. <strong>Uno Cards -</strong> Uno is the one game that all three of my kids can play. Their ages again are 4, 6 and 8. One afternoon we played Uno for almost and hour and a half, while sitting at the picnic table in the shade and munching on snack mix. Sure the 4 year old gave up before the others and went and blew bubbles instead, but it was a great time sitting and playing that wouldn't always happen at home because of life's distractions. We stored our Uno cards in a plastic travel soap dish container. This kept then dry and dirt free in our tub of camping toys. Cards are also great to have for rainy days.<br />
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14. <strong>A Bug Box</strong>- We took a plastic sided one with vented lid. We not only caught our fair share of may flies, and lightning bugs, but we were also able to bring home some tadpoles because our container could hold water too.<br />
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15. <strong>Small Squirt Guns - </strong>I bought a pack of small squirt guns and the kids used them to cool off. We used our fire bucket as our refilling station. Also small squirt guns are an awesome way for the kids to put the fire out. It will keep them busy for a good 30 minutes and makes a fun hissing sound.<br />
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<strong>Scheduled activities in the parks</strong>: May state parks will give you a schedule of activities going on on the days you stay. We attended talks about snakes, and butterflies, and stinky animals. The kids came away with posters and booklets about local wildlife they used later to try to spot things they saw. There were also free outdoor movies with free popcorn and freeze pops in the evenings.<br />
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<strong>Visit the Local Visitors Centers:</strong> Some parks have a visitor's center that has fun things for kids to see or do. The staff in the ones we visited were great! We were able to see examples of things such as fossils they found locally, and types of wildlife to look out for. We also visited a dam that had a center nearby. They had educational videos you can watch, many interactive play areas where the kids learned about the dam, local wildlife including fish that live in the river, about boat safety and much more. Visitor centers are a great place to spend the early afternoon when the sun is hot because they are air conditioned. We also found a fish hatchery nearby that had an aquarium. These were all free and educational places to visit. Visitors centers also have equipment you can rent or sometimes check out for free if you are looking for something to do.<br />
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<strong>Playgrounds: </strong>Where we stayed there were a few smaller state park camp grounds. We made the rounds to them all and tried to see how many different playgrounds we could play on. I believe we found a total of 12 playgrounds within a few miles of our campground. Did we play a long time at each? Nah, but it was fun to say we checked out so many and it was fun to rate them all. We judged the best slide, the most fun equipment. <br />
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<strong>State Park Passport Program:</strong> Our state parks have a passport program where you can get a stamp in a booklet for every park you visit. The visitors signs have a code lock box and the books contain the codes you need to open the box and get to the stamp for your book. When you earn a certain amount of stamps you get a prize. The kids really love having a code to open a secret box and to get stamps. <br />
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<strong>Try Geocache!:</strong> What better way to go on a hike than to go on an actual treasure hunt with the kids. They feel there is a purpose to hiking around other than just a walk. We bring along our star wars rocks to leave as a trade for any trinkets we may find and want to keep in a geo cache otherwise it is just fun to seek and find something! All of our state parks have geo caches hidden in them. If you have a smart phone you can download the state park app and start searching!<br />
<a href="http://gfp.sd.gov/agency/social-media.aspx">Find a link to our state park App here. They contain the geo cache info.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.geocaching.com/">Or visit this site to learn more about geocaching in your area.</a> <br />
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<strong>Links to my other Camping Related Blog Posts.</strong></div>
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For a fun water game to play while camping check out <a href="http://www.karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/drip-drip-splash.html">Drip Drip Splash Here!</a></div>
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For our favorite <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2012/08/smore-ito.html">Campfire treat click here.</a></div>
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<a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2010/07/backyard-camping.html">Backyard Camping</a></div>
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We couldn't pass up a project where God gives us such beautiful supplies.</div>
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These are our trees. Today they are in full force. They contain 5 different colors, and every shade in between. Yes all on one day, and all on one tree!</div>
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And although I have a to-do list for the day a mile long, we had to stop and do a craft, how could you not. So we took out a sheet of paper from Grandma's expired desk calendar, a bottle of glue and the leaves we gathered from our trees.</div>
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He chose rainbow.</div>
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I am in awe of Gods creation this time of year and putting these leaves, that all came from one tree, in rows next to each other really made me amazed that they are so different yet came from one tree.</div>
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This reminds me again of the variety in all of God's creation.</div>
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I am not sure what our official costumes are going to be for Halloween this year. Last year the three ended up all as <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/08/narnia-peter-and-edmund-costume.html">characters from Narnia</a>.</div>
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This year my oldest, may just be <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/08/lucy-pevensie-narnia-costume.html">Lucy again from Narnia</a>, or <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/12/judy-moody-i-ate-shark-tiger-pants.html">Judy Moody</a> by wearing one of her favorite outfits she got last year for Christmas.</div>
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My middle child is still undecided. My youngest however, who is now 3 and a half, has a list of about 20 things he wishes to be this year for Halloween. He tells me every day that he wants to be something different than yesterday.</div>
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One that keeps coming up is Luke Skywalker. Now that was almost too easy. So easy in fact I had to share the costume with you.</div>
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A white karate top-pretty easy to find at a thrift store, but big sister had one at our house.</div>
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Notes in kids lunchboxes are a way cool way to let your child know you are thinking of them while they are at school. I used to write little notes, and I even used to print off some generic little notes. This year however I just didn't feel like dragging out the paper and markers, or printing and cutting notes to have ready.</div>
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Then I got a great idea! I pack my kids lunches in Ziploc three compartment containers, then put them into their lunchbox. I really like the containers and they seem to hold up well given I only had to buy one set of two for my daughter to use last year. </div>
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Dry erase lunch box love notes right on their containers! I grab the magnetic marker off the fridge and scribble them a doodle or note each day. Easy quick, and no paper waste! I erase them before they get washed and they are ready to go for the next time. </div>
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I have learned it is much easier and more efficient to do so without my daughter present. She likes to keep every little scrap of paper. I get rid of bags of little pieces of paper and she never knows what is missing if I purge while she is gone. Out of sight is out of mind, she has not once missed anything I have decided to get rid of, and she is always super happy with her clean and organized room.<br />
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My kids clean their own rooms, don't get me wrong, but there comes a time where they need a good going through and reorganization to make it easier for them to put things away.<br />
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She got a new desk this year got to LOVE Ikea. She also loves her loft. She enjoys displaying all of her school artwork on the walls. Not my choice to hang them up there, but it is not my room and she LOVES it.</div>
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Click over to learn about her <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/02/treasures-mosaic-mirror.html">Mosaic Mirror</a>.</div>
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Click to read about <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/science-fair-project-2012.html">Robie the Red Robot</a> you can see in the photo below.</div>
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The Loft with reading area, and icicle Christmas lights underneath. She also made her own fairy mobile a few years ago from her fairy party decorations, still hanging up. There are also various stuffed animal elevators she made out of recycle materials to transport her stuffed friends up and down from the loft.</div>
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Notice the fishing pole holder on the wall behind the basket ball hoop. He is all about fishing.</div>
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So it is not surprising that he has a poster of local fish right by his bed. Also this year he got a new fishing bedspread from Cabella's.</div>
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My girl's is from her baby days. I had the kids who I taught in preschool paint these drawings in for me. The three kids who painted these are going to become teenagers this year!</div>
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Ahhh... I have donated two boxes and 3 bags of clothes and toys to the local foster care store, and gotten rid of 5 grocery bags full of recyclables and garbage. We are officially clean and organized.. for now.</div>
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When those days come around that Savers has 50% off their clothing it is a day I get ready to shop!</div>
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But how does one sort though all those racks for just the right pieces to complete your wardrobe? </div>
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Pinterest has helped me put some pretty neat outfits together while out thrift shopping. I just pin outfits I think are cute into my style board so when I get ready to shop, I have some idea of what to shop for, but I have mostly gone from memory when I get to the store. This has left me forgetting to look for some important pieces, and spending too much time looking at things trying to decide if I like it or not.</div>
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I know I like my style pinboard on pinterest so I started to write down some of the pieces I need to look for. But my descriptions of grey sweater leave way to much to my imagination. Even if I get specific with my descriptions they are not always easy to decipher.</div>
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So that is when I got the idea of printing off my pinterst style board. I suggest you do so in color as well so that you remember what colors to look for. Now I am set to head off to my favorite thrift stores to shop for the pieces I am missing from the outfits I have pinned.</div>
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To make sure all your pins fit onto your page, go to File, then select Print Preview. Then select the shrink to fit option. If you choose 50% all your pins should fit on the page width wise. You can also adjust the side margins by dragging the dotted lines on the preview page. It can take a bit for the photos to load to the preview page so be patient and don't worry if you are staring at a blank page for a few extra seconds.</div>
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Before I head out I plan on printing off my sewing inspiration boards too. You never know when you can upcycle a good thrift piece into a great new piece.</div>
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Savers does happen to have 50% off summer clearance today (August 21st) for Super Saver Card Members. <br />So head there and sign up for the Super Savers Club today. It is free and is not a credit card, just a perks type of card. <br />Happy Shopping!</div>
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First day of school here and this year I sent off two children! Now I only have one left at home. I swear it was his idea to go shopping today, he didn't want to go home to an empty house. So I followed his idea and headed off to Gordman's and Walmart. </div>
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I wanted to get the kids something special to remember their first day of school, after looking at various toys and such. I decided to go with fish.</div>
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My youngest son picked out the fish for his big brother and sister (he got a new Star Wars guy so he was ok with not getting a fish of his own.)</div>
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I love having this ready to send off to school with them so that they have some variety in their lunchboxes.</div>
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For our crust we bought a package of Rhodes frozen dinner rolls 36 count.</div>
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The frozen little balls of dough are just the right size to make little pizza crusts.</div>
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All three kids took turns flattening out the balls into their pizza crusts and poking holes in them with a fork so that they didn't puff up too much.</div>
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I baked them at 350 degrees, and flipped them halfway though baking with a spatula. I also used the spatula to flatten them out a bit more after turning them. We took them out when they started to brown. Ours are a bit pale, because our kids like them that way.</div>
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For the sauce I couldn't pass up this squeeze bottle. I did use up the whole bottle making this round, but from now on I am going to empty my cans of sauce into this bottle and it will be ready to roll for the next round. I also had these mini sized zip top bags that work great to hold sauce. I filled them up with the squeeze bottle and laid them flat on a cookie sheet to freeze them so that they can be packed frozen and be thawed and ready to go by lunchtime.</div>
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Here are all our crusts and sauce packets ready to pop into the freezer.</div>
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We pack all of the kids lunches in these Ziploc divided containers. They come two to a package and my daughter used them all last school year and they help up fine to dishwashers and lunchbox travel. They are not leak proof, so you can not pack really wet stuff, but the money we saved on bags, and how much easier these made packing lunches made them more than worth the cost. There is another company that make a container that is similar but they are much more expensive. </div>
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We have two crusts one pizza sauce, some cheese and turkey pepperoni, apple sauce, some carrots, and a juice box ready to go in this lunch. I will assemble them the day they need them, but packing them will be super simple!</div>
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I am in love! With this face, yes of course, with this snack, oh my yes! Upon a trip to the outdoor campus for women's try it day I was introduced to Mexican smores aka Smore'-itos. </div>
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So as I sent the two big kids on a solo trip around the block on their bikes (another first) I decided to put my 3 year old to work making today's snack.</div>
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<strong>Option 1:</strong>Today we put ours open and flat into the microwave for 30 seconds, then rolled them up after cooking.</div>
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My son is a big breakfast eater. He can eat up to three different breakfast's in a morning. He is a growing boy. But now that he is off to kindergarten he can no longer just eat all morning, he also has to eat much earlier than his body is used to eating. </div>
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I know I need to get a good source of protein and some fiber in his breakfasts so that he stays satisfied until lunch time. Lucky for me he loves eggs. These simple egg omelets in a muffin tin are an easy way to get that protein in. Put them on an multi grain English muffin to add some good fiber, and I think I found a simple and easy grab and go breakfast for my growing Kindergartner. </div>
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Spray a six cup muffin tin with cooking spray, (the non-stick tins don't work as well as the plain aluminum ones)</div>
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Crack six eggs into a liquid measuring cup. Add salt if you wish.</div>
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Mix eggs up with a fork until whites and yokes are blended well.</div>
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Pour equal amounts into each of the muffin tin cups</div>
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Bake 325 for 10 min. </div>
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Do not over bake.</div>
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When you take the tin out, the eggs will have a hollow center perfect for holding diced ham or shredded cheese. </div>
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Tonight for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies we had a little party!</div>
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It was a great evening at home and a great way to get the kids excited about the games!</div>
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First we made some silver medals. We took an empty cereal box and traced and cut some circles out.</div>
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We wrapped the circles in tin foil.</div>
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Then we used tooth picks to draw pictures on them. My son wanted the number 3 on his silver medal.</div>
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Then they worked together to make some paper plate Olympic rings to hang on our fireplace mantel.</div>
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We found this <a href="http://www.coolmompicks.com/2012/07/free_olympics_printables_for_kids.php">free board game printable</a> and the kids had fun playing this with their Grandma while waiting for the ceremonies to start. The link also has other great free Olympics printables for kids.</div>
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We even had a good Olympic themed snack. (No not McDonald's, Wheaties, and Coke Classic.) Grandma picked up some Cheerios snack mix on the way to our house we mixed it with our microwave popcorn we had already planned. So the kids had fun eating the Olympic rings (Cheerios) as well.</div>
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It was a great and enjoyable evening at home that I am sure will leave some memories that they can think about the next time the Olympics roll around.</div>MusicalMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202088552092965426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783164936435145474.post-81143887194056168732012-07-25T10:00:00.001-07:002012-07-25T10:00:29.994-07:00Planting Potatoes in a 20 Gallon Planter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was our first try at growing potatoes in our 20 gallon planter. We planted the seed potato pieces in the bottom in about two inches of dirt and covered with more dirt, then as they sprouted we kept covering the sprouts each day until they reached the top of the container.</div>
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The idea is that the longer the roots the more potatoes and you can grow them vertically instead of them taking up so much space in a yard.</div>
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So now they were all dried up. I had read someplace that they keep growing underground, but I also read that once they dry up they are done. I new I had some good potatoes in there since I could see them peeking through the top of the soil, but I was also worried.. One plant died much sooner than the rest, it looked a little sick. You can see it in the first photo on the left side hanging over the pot. I was worried that this one may have some sort of rot that may infect the other potatoes so I decided to dump. Yep it is July still, but we went for it.</div>
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My daughter was excited to grab a few she could see from the top of the pot.</div>
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Then we dumped the whole pot into a blank spot (thanks to the rabbit issues) in our raised garden. My original plan was to dump it into the garden in the fall once the growing season had ended. But something told me the potatoes couldn't wait that long. </div>
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I think I was right.</div>
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Yep there was some rot going on on the one plant and the small potatoes that were on it. </div>
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I noticed that the pot was VERY wet on the bottom. The drip catcher on the bottom of the planter held too much water causing the bottom to always stay wet. Next year I will be drilling multiple holes into the bottom of the pot to prevent this. Potatoes like well drained soil best so I think this will solve our problem.</div>
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But we still had plenty of learning and enrichment going on and my daughter and her friend were not afraid to dig into the stinkyness and get their hands dirty.</div>
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Here is our harvest, washed and ready to go. I am thinking... Soup!</div>
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My daughter had a pizza at Subway for lunch and wanted to keep the box for a project. She asked me what she should make and I suggested she try making the pizza box solar cooker.</div>
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The sun soon melted the chocolate. We had gone inside to watch a show and wait, and when we looked back the wind had taken our box and opened it. Our marshmallows were not too melted, but I think they had cooled off since the box had opened. They were still yummy, just a bit hard to eat. I suggest mini marshmallows for this size oven since the large ones touched the top of the box. </div>
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Plates would have been helpful. Well now we know for next time, and we still had fun.</div>
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Less than a month before school starts, that means School Supplies are out and on sale. It also means that it is time to brush up on handwriting skills that may have gotten rusty over the summer. I needed a way to encourage some summer writing with my kiddos so I purchased two composition notebooks for 29 cents each. Then we got out the craft supplies.</div>
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We got out the box of stickers, whenever we have stickers leftover from kits or other things we put them all in one box. It is nice to be able to take this box out for whatever projects we want. We also got out some paper, markers, scissors, packing tape, beads and string. </div>
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Then the kids went to town decorating their notebooks in any way they wanted.</div>
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Two fun and funky notebooks ready to be filled with story ideas, journal entries, lists of what we did this summer and "word family" lists. </div>
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Another fun summer afternoon project.</div>
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We took masking tape and put it on the cardboard where we didn't want paint to be. I wrote some words from a saying I found on Pinterest, and my daughter decided to make a bird and egg.</div>
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Then we painted over the tape in whatever pattern we wanted. My daughter kept with the coloring in method and I just painted some cool colors in random patterns.</div>
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We were both happy with the finished products. I love my daughter's little picture, she always has good ideas of what to do. <br />
My piece is going to be making an appearance in my mother-in-law's classroom this fall at a local high school. I love making projects and passing them on. A fun little project for our summer afternoon.<br />
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I have the best garden I have had this year as far as the size of my plants well the plants that survived... I also have a horrible rabbit problem in my garden that began from the start. I never officially saw a rabbit in there, but whole pepper plants tomato plants and bean plants and corn plants disappeared.
I thought the problem had stopped for a while. I think what happened is the baby bunnies got too big to fit though my chicken wire fence so they stopped getting into my garden.
But yesterday I went out to check my veggies and saw him! A rabbit in the raised garden, he just jumped over the fence when he saw me and hopped into another yard.
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I have named one of the rabbits in my yard Houdini for this reason, I had never seen him in there, and also various times I would bait my live trap, he would somehow get in eat the yummy treats I left him and get out without springing the trap. We also do the human hair thing when our kids and hubby get their haircuts at home. But that only is said to work until it rains or there is a dew. </div>
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I have had two monstrous tomatoes in my garden for weeks. They have not reddened up since the weather has been too hot for them to do so. So I was patiently waiting and was going to pick them as soon as I saw any blush to them because I was pretty sure these monsters were keeping all other tomato production from happening on those two plants. </div>
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Here are my monsters. Yes they are HUGE. If I put two of my fists together it is about the size of one of these tomatoes. I can't tell you what kind they are, my sister-in-law gave me the seeds. They are some sort of Heirloom variety. Yep grew these babies from seeds all myself.
But here is the aftermath of my furry friends.</div>
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I have been trying to outsmart those "waskally wabbits" from the start this year. Last year my short chicken wire fence did the trick, they kept out. This year however they were able to get in from the start making me resort to other measures to protect my plants. I started by cutting the tops and bottoms off milk jugs so I could transplant my plants outside without them being eaten. I lost a few plants before I started this method. </div>
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The milk jugs seem to work fairly well and I will be using them again next year. The rabbits stayed away from my remaining tomato plants and this worked great for the other plants as well. Until the beans grew taller then the rabbits treated the jugs as a feeding trough yet they never did kill the plant, since they couldn't get to the stem. I did decide to keep them on the tomatoes since it does keep the rabbits from eating the main shoot and they only were able to eat the top leaves. Once the tomato plants were larger the rabbits didn't eat the plants. This was able to protect my summer squash plants too when they were small. I recommend the milk jugs. They worked really well as a mini green house for my little seedlings and did deter the rabbits a bit.</div>
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I also use a buried upside down bottle to water my tomatoes like a good friend taught me. This gives water to the roots and avoids getting the leaves wet which tomatoes are not too fond of. I have found this works great and this is my third year of watering this way. One bottle full a day is the perfect amount to keep your plant producing.</div>
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So onto protecting my other tomatoes which is my current issue. Lucky many of my fruits are higher than a rabbit can reach on the plant, or so I assume at this point, unless they figure out how to use stilts which I wouldn't doubt they could. But I do currently have three that are lower in the danger zone. So I again turned to some plastic I had nearby.</div>
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I stuck plastic bottles around the fruit. I am hoping that this will keep the rabbits from nibbling them. Got to keep thinking on my toes. The bottles just stay in place by being held by friction between the fruit and nearby vines. I am hoping that this may up my gas levels making the fruit turn red faster since it may keep the gas that is responsible for turning ripe mature green tomatoes red from blowing away if it is windy. Yes there is a gas the plant produces that turns them red, that is why you can put green mature tomatoes in a paper bag to make them turn red if they don't turn red on the vine. It helps to concentrate that gas in the bag. Amazing what you can learn online. We will see if my bunny deterrent works and has this added benefit.</div>
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This is all that is left of my pepper plants and one green bean plant. The rabbits have wiped them out. The roll cages work ok, but bunnies can get their tongue in there and nibble leaves. I did however have a good result using these on my starting cucumbers to protect them. But you need to remove them before the plant starts to send out climbers, or you will find yourself needing to cut them off.</div>
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I decided to use a different method for my cucumbers this year. I removed my metal coffee cans from around the tee-pee and replaced them with a little wooden trench that I filled with good soil. The cucumbers are climbing like crazy and are happy in their new home. I did cover the bottom with the little rolled cages to start but once they got to the climbing stage I removed them. It has been fun teaching them to climb up where I want them, relaxing sitting and wrapping their little climber shoots around the supports. I have many little cucumbers starting but have not picked a mature one yet. A few more days and I think my first one will be ready.</div>
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These were started early inside. These two summer squash plants made it when transplanted outside. They are staked nicely on this metal thing someone left behind at our house under the deck. Works good. No squash vine borers yet this year YIPPEE!!! </div>
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I have picked one yellow squash so far. I had a couple shrivel up on me when we were on a two day summer trip. Too hot while we were gone. But MAN is that suash plant huge! </div>
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This is a 20 gallon planter that happened to be left at my house by the previous owners. I added the label myself with some paint pens. Then I planted the potatoes at the bottom and filled in dirt as they grew. They were growing really well, then one turned yellow and died, the rest are getting a bit yellow but I think it is due to the hot weather. We will see if this fill method ends up working when we dump it out this fall. No worries if it is a bust. We don't have the garden space for potatoes otherwise and we had the pot, so we wanted to try.</div>
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Our little herb garden blocks I say are working well. I only planted the three plants. I was not sure what other things I wanted to plant to be honest. We have had a few good sized strawberries out of the tiny strawberry plant. My youngest son was thrilled! But do realize that when you fill your planter that the dirt will settle. It will settle a lot! You need to fill then wait a week then refill before planting. My dirt level is a bit lower than I would like, but I haven't gotten around to getting more soil for them.</div>
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Well that is the garden so far this year. The giant sunflowers that we have had in past years bit the dust right away, the rabbits couldn't leave them alone. We planted them twice. </div>
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It is HOT here today. We have spent most of the day indoors in order to stay cool, our outdoor thermometer reads 102 degrees. </div>
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After a few games of PIG indoors using the small basketball hoop in the living room, I knew it was time for a project.
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Time to try out the hot rock painting. </div>
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I had seen this on pinterest but people actually took rocks and put them in an electric skillet to heat them up.
I thought to myself who needs a skillet when you can wait for an incredibly hot day. Today was that day.
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We took our crayons outside (yes we keep our crayons in an empty wipes container works awesome!) and found some rocks we wanted to try out.
When the crayons touch the hot rocks they instantly melt making a melted paint so to speak. A fun new medium to decorate the rocks with.
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We found that the smooth rocks worked the best since they made the most surface contact with the crayons.
We also found that black rocks worked the best since they absorbed more of the suns rays making them hotter.
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We also found that the generic brands of crayons or the crayons you take home from most restaurants have a lower melting point so they worked even better for this project. </div>
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Interesting science mixed in with art. </div>
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My daughter was able to learn about surface area, the color black absorbing more heat and about the melting points of different brands of crayons.
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We made flowers, stars and stripes, spirals, suns, rainbows, owls, an octopus, fossil fish, and just plain colored rocks.</div>
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Linking up here:
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I think it may be tradition since I was little to decorate a T-shirt for the 4th of July. I even remember having a T-shirt decorating party one year on my birthday since my birthday is only a week and a half prior to the 4th of July. We have sponge painted, puffy painted, tye died, used ribbons, I even remember using a sort of plastic bedazzling snap thing to decorate 4th of july shirts.</div>
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This year we decided to try out the sharpie method of tie dye to make our patriotic creations. We have seen this on pinterest and pinned it in the winter but I knew just using red and blue we could make a patriotic version.</div>
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Go back to school in style and score some extra teacher points with this loose leaf paper T-shirt. <br />
Stripes are in, and making this awesome additon to your child's wardrobe is easier and cheaper than you think. Students of any age (even teens) can rock this style, and have a blast making it!<br />
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White T-shirt. We got our white shirts at Dollar Tree.<br />
Red Sharpie Marker<br />
Blue Sharpie Marker<br />
Yard Stick or other Ruler<br />
Cardboard or Paper Grocery Bag<br />
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1. Pre-wash and dry your shirt, this will help the marker will stay on longer without washing out.<br />
2. Lay your shirt out flat. Put a piece of cardboard or empty paper grocery sack inside to prevent marker from bleeding though to the back of the shirt.<br />
3. Start your top blue line a couple of ruler widths from the bottom armpit sleeve of your shirt.<br />
4. Use the width of your ruler to keep the distance equal between your lines.<br />
5. Continue blue lines acoss the shirt until you get to the bottom of the shirt.<br />
6. Midway between your collar and sleeve use your ruler and red sharpie perminate marker to make a vertical line from your shoulder seam to the bottom of the shirt. <br />
7. Rock your new back to school look. You could also use a black sharpie at this point to write a message on your paper like. "Too cool for school!" Or just leave it plain like ours.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hair Chalking. Yep that is right. Hair Chalking. This safe and temporary
hair color technique is done with plain old sidewalk chalk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get your sidewalk chalk wet with water and then rub on the strands of hair
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My youngest even did a little chunk of his favorite color yellow right up
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly my kids slept on it that first night and most of it had disappeared
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This is much safer and cheaper than hair dye, super temporary unlike using Kool-aid, not messy to do and easy to boot.</div>
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Please note that even though your kids are acting the same way they always do in the grocery store it does seem twice as rotton and bad when their hair is funky colored, and you may get a few extra stares and glares from older people when you are used to sweet comments from them about your cute kiddos.</div>
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It is a good one day lesson for the kids on how to not judge people on their appearance but on what is in their hearts.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am
sure the Mohawk will be sporting red white and blue stripes for the 4th of July.</span></span></div>
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My Judy Moody fan decided to fill me in the week before her birthday that she changed her mind from her previous party plans wanted to have a Judy Moody Birthday party.</div>
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Lucky this mom works GREAT under pressure, and with no other Judy Moody Party Plans to be found, I went to work!</div>
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Her cake is nothing Judy specific but was something she had picked out months ago when she saw it on Pinterest. It is just a box of cake mix in two round pans. Stacked up with a container of frosting surrounded by Kit-Cat and topped with M&M's it looked fabulous and tasted fabulous as well. I loved it because you don't have to have Cake Boss frosting skills to make an awesome looking cake.</div>
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She of course wore her Judy Moody Outfit. Her aunt Lara made her the shirt for Christmas using <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/05/helly-kitty-t-shirt-freezer-paper.html">freezer paper stenciling</a>, and <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/12/judy-moody-i-ate-shark-tiger-pants.html">I made her the Tiger Pants</a>.</div>
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We started at the house right after school on a Friday. After playing a few games of whole house hide and seek while waiting for everyone to arrive we got out the cake and did the traditional happy birthday song.</div>
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If you look closely you will see one of her gifts as the centerpiece.</div>
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A Venus fly trap kit! </div>
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<strong>Judy Moody Fact:</strong> Judy Moody has a pet Venus fly trap named Jaws.</div>
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Here is my minimal Judy Moody Decorating. </div>
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I didn't decorate much at home because you will see...</div>
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the party does not stay at home.</div>
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But to have something for decorations, I hung these printable Judy Moody character stamps, I printed off the Judy Moody Website, from the light fixture above the table.</div>
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The party really centered around this.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Judy Moody Video Scavenger Hunt!</span></strong></div>
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So it is pretty much a video scavenger hunt, but with a Judy Moody Theme.</div>
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I made up a checklist with thrill points very similar to the one Judy made in the movie Judy Moody and the Not-Bummer Summer.</div>
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As the kids completed each item on the checklist I videotaped them in action. I also didn't tell them where we were going. They had to brainstorm ways to complete the tasks themselves. I did however guide that a bit with prompting questions but I let them discover the destinations themselves. So it was always a surprise where we were headed.</div>
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As a party thank you I plan on putting a whole DVD together of the challenges and a video of them performing each thrill points challenge.</div>
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The challenges were as follows.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Thrill Points Check List Item Number One</span></strong></div>
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<strong>Eat a piece of birthday cake without using your hands.</strong></div>
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<strong>Find a bathtub get all party attendees into the tub and sing "Row Row Row Your Boat"</strong></div>
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After we ate cake (and washed up a bit) we loaded up into the car and the kids brainstormed how they were going to accomplish their next challenge.</div>
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The birthday girl decided that we needed to head to Menard's! </div>
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They found a bathtub big enough for everyone and with huge smiles and giggles started singing at the top of their lungs while store workers and people passing buy gave puzzling looks.</div>
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<strong>Find and ride a roller coaster!</strong></div>
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(This one was on Judy's not- bummer summer thrill points list too!)</div>
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They had trouble figuring this one out. I had them look at the next clue to give them a hint as to where we needed to go. But once they figured it out they were PUMPED!</div>
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We headed to Chuck e Cheese! They have a virtual roller coaster there. I was lucky I had a coupon that got us 110 tokens for $20. Each child spent about 10 tokens while we were there so we didn't even spend half of them, which we will save for a rainy day. We played for about 40 minutes total before moving on to our next challenge.</div>
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He is not exactly Bigfoot, but about the right size and furry!</div>
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<strong>Sing for your supper! Sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" for people who are at McDonald's. Then you can eat!</strong></div>
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They sang for the employees, and they McDonald's employees even clapped for them when they were done and told them how cute they were. </div>
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<strong>Blow bubbles for some kids you don't know.</strong></div>
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I had some leftover party bubbles from little brothers <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/lego-birthday-party.html">Lego party</a> so I handed them out once we got in the car and they decided as a group that they would be able to find some kids at McDonald's, and they did. Mission accomplished.</div>
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<strong>Lift a car up using your bare hands.</strong></div>
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They brainstormed this one quite a bit. They thought about finding a toy car and lifting that up. But with a bit of guided hints they figured out where we needed to go. Right outside a science museum in our town you can pull a rope that actually lifts a car using a giant sea saw type lever.</div>
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They all lifted a car using their bare hands!</div>
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Inside the science museum they have a tornado machine. It cost me $1 to send them all into a tornado and the video I got was totally awesome if you can't tell from the photo.</div>
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It was also the first Friday of the month and in the evening the science center admission is free. So it cost nothing to haul all the kiddos into a fun and interactive science center. Where they spent the rest of the evening playing and exploring.</div>
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<strong>Figure out how you can get everyone upside down at the same time.</strong><br />
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The kids were so smart that they decided that if they all stood with their arms above their head and I turned the camera upside down they would all be upside down on the video at the same time. Unfortunately the video was too dark to get a good image off of so we took this one to show you what it looked like. <br />
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You are maybe wondering how I was OK driving all over town with a group of 5 kids. Well it is because one is my daughter, one is my nephew, one is my niece, and the other two are my daughter's best friends from school who I know very well. It is such a good group of kids and I thank God every day for the great friends God has put into my daughter's life. They are all great and wonderful kids and helped make my daughter's 7th birthday so special.<br />
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I can't wait to get the Thank you DVDs done to give to each of them to show them all the awesome thrill points they earned during the party.<br />
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The cost of the party was right around $50 not counting supplies I already had like party plates and supplies from previous birthdays. I also didn't count mileage and we used coupons and lucked out on free admission science center first Fridays.<br />
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As a woman, I never really though I would know the difference between Jengo Fett and Bulba Fett, or the difference between a battle droid, a clone trooper and a droid decoa. But here I am the mother of two boys and I know way more about Star Wars then I ever wanted to. So a Star Wars Party was not a hard thing for me to whip up.</div>
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<strong>Star Wars Upcycled Invites!</strong></div>
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For a few months before the party I had saved these fruit snack boxes. On each side is a star wars image. For the invites I just cut out an image and put the party info on the back side. Instant Invites.</div>
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I used the image on the other side on the fruit snack box to decorate some plain white paper lunch sacks I had on hand into star wars lute bags. My son actually helped make these for his friends. When they broke open the pinata their prizes went into these bags.</div>
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Two layers was plenty, I was worried it would break right away so the first round of hits they used the pool noodle light sabers, then after everyone had a turn I got out a plastic light saber. Everyone still got a turn hitting with that one before I had to add a few cuts with a box cutter to weaken it.</div>
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They also didn't just destroy the Death Star.. They had to find it first. For their final Jedi Training mission, we sent them on a note scavenger hunt. We had Yoda write the clues and he told them to look different places in the house to find more notes that would lead them closer to the secrete location of the Death Star. Good thing dad came up with the perfect hiding place. In the dryer!</div>
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That is no fancy expensive party balloon, it is actually a white tall kitchen trash bag decorated with a sharpie!</div>
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Also if you notice in the photo we had Vader-aid to drink.</div>
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We got everything we needed at the dollar store. These were so awesome and did no damage to anything in our house. We also did not star the party off with he light sabers, they had to do the laser beam challenge and learn to use the force first.</div>
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The phrase, "Patience my young padawan." comes in handy when they ask tons of questions about what they get to do and when.</div>
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Also make sure they know true Jedi listen to their master. (aka you)</div>
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Jedi also must learn self control, good to remind them of this before you give light sabers to a bunch of young kids.</div>
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Just like the laser doors that trapped Obi Wan in Episode I keeping him from helping Quigon in the battle against Darth Maul! These lasers you must try to move through without touching or knocking down.</div>
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Remember that commercial where the boy in the Vader costume uses the force to start a car, when really the parents hit the start button on their key chain? Well we did the same thing, but with the fire place. Our fire place control is on the other side of the room so when I was teaching the kids how to focus their force all on the fire place to start the fire. My husband out of site was able to hit the switch to turn on the fireplace. We had a few surprised faces, that is for sure.</div>
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A storm trooper squadron had taken over the living room. They were white balloons I had used black sharpie to draw a storm trooper minimalism face on. I then tied black string on them and hung them with tape from the ceiling.</div>
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They also had storm trooper pinata training. In order to destroy the death star pinata later they got to practice their aim on a storm trooper head made from a milk jug. I tied it to a string and a stick so I could safely stay out of the way and swing it closer or father from the Jedi in training.</div>
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Each child got to make a death star ball out of balloons and rice. They are super simple and took only a minute or so for each kid. <a href="http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2010/11/black-eyed-peas-juggling-balls.html">See the simple how-to here</a>. They made them right when they came one at a time and the other kids played with the star wars guys while they waited for others to finish.</div>
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We also did a bit of light saber base ball. I batted the balloon toward them and they had to hit it with their light sabers. Everything is soft so no chance to destroy or break anything.</div>
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I also did my best to dress up like Padame, but I think I looked more like she would have looked if she had survived childbirth of twins. HA! It was still fun, but the 5 year olds didn't really get it. "Why do you have duct tape on your arms??" Ha! Oh well!</div>MusicalMommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202088552092965426noreply@blogger.com13