babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, oh my!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

CREATIVE!

I wish I was creative enough to come up with a lot of the stuff I do!

But mostly I steal ideas!

I have a lot up my sleeves,

but I go to education classes,

buy children craft books,

and am addicted to pinterest

for a reason!

But it is a very GOOD reason!

my kiddos are

learning

and of course

having FUN!!!

I discovered a fun way to paint on pinterest!

and just had to try it!

Well since I pin about 5 new things a night

this idea got shoved off and forgotten about

But my new years resolution is to plan each month,

so I went through my pins and Rediscovered this!

Condensed milk and food coloring =

BEAUTIFUL SHINNY PAINT!

i had 2 cans in my pantry and thought for sure I would NEED both cans! WRONG! i used 1/4 a can and 11 kids did the project! a little goes a LONG ways! I wish i had a recipe to use the other part of the can so it doesn't go to waste!!

yes its sticky!

but drys smooth and shiny!!!

Its very similar to corn syrup and food coloring but isn't as sticky, its easier to move around with a brush, drys quicker (MUCH MUCH quicker) and it is not as heavy!

The toddlers and preschoolers LOVED this!!!

so of course I bring you pictures!!

poor pics but I had all the blinds open for sunlight because i was worried these were going to take days to dry! but its not even 2 in the afternoon and pretty much all dry!!

its funny how when one kid makes a rainbow they ALL have to make a rainbow!!

Off subject but I just want to remember today:

Its January 4th, 2012 and today we went for a walk around the block, and played outside for over an hour!

you see normally I would spend over 45mins dressing kids shoving boots on hats gloves, and then you have the one kid that needs to use the bathroom so you start all over agian on getting him undressed and redressed! Then you throw the kids in a snow bank, point and laugh and then go get the kid that fell in the middle of the yard and cant get back up because the snow is to deep and he is crying because his boogers are frozen to his face and snow got inside all those clothes we spent 45 mins getting on!

But NOT today! Today we put coats on (some had fall jackets) and we just went outside and played!

This pic was taken in January of 2011

This picture taken January 2012

This is CRAZY!!!!

Linking up with THRIFTY THURSDAY!!!

Linking up with Toys in the Dryer!

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Doodle Paint!

The New Year is Here!

and I actually have the entire month of January projects picked out
planned and organized!!!

I am very proud of it!

and we will be keeping very busy over here at

babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, OH MY!!

today we did a messy little activity called

DOODLE PAINT!

not sure where the name came from but that is what I am calling it!

To make Doodle Paint

you will need:

Equal Parts:

flour salt and water

and then add food coloring!

mix all together with your choice of colors and give the bottle a good shake!!

I got my bottles that I used at Micheal's

(a craft store) I need about 50 more!!

Because I only had four but wanted more than four colors

I thought I would use empty glue bottles -- FAIL!

Soooo...I decided to strengthen our fine motor skills

we would use syringes,

and the kiddos LOVED this!!

I also used a cardstock for our paper because I had a feeling if I used anything else it would soak through and ripe the paper! Its very heavy stuff!!

Here are some pics of the kiddos hard at work!