Candy cane sugar scrub

One of the things Eli and I made for his grandma's was this super cute and awesome smelling sugar scrub. It's hard coming up with easy gift ideas for Eli to help with since he's not even 3 but he had no problem doing these.

What you will need.

White Sugar.

Glass jars with lids. ( These are super cute)

Red food coloring Or Beet Root Powder or Magic Red Mica Powder

Peppermint EO 

2 Bowls.

I filled both jars up with sugar.

1. Put the sugar into a bowl 

2. Add the Peppermint EO's. Eli went a little crazy with the oil so not sure how many drops he did. Oops.

3. Mix it all up.

4. Eli filled 1 jar up with sugar so we have the same amount of white and red.

5. With the left over sugar add the red coloring.

6. Mix it up.

7. Add a little white sugar to the jar then red, then white, then red and so on.

8. We added a ribbon and label. I just kinda forgot to take a picture of it.

Valentine's Day "Cards"

The boys were suppost to make card for Valentine's Day but instead ended up just painting and adding some hearts stickers.

The paint and paper I had at home and the stickers came from Dollar Tree so this was a cheap craft.

This is everythin they had to work with. 

I tried to make a heart with the TP roller but well it was a fail.

See fail.

I would have got end pictures but my cam. died on me. Sorry











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Nita's Paintings

Nita is big into art and painting. So I just wanted to share some of the things she has done :)

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Pom-Pom Caterpillar

So I saw Pom-Poms at the store the other day and I just knew they would be great for the boys to play with. It wasn't till I got home that I came up with just what to do with them tho.

Pom-Pom Caterpillars are so easy to make and cheap too. 

What you will need.

A leaf print out ( Just google till you find one you like.

Pom-Poms 

Glue

Googly eyes

Marker, color pencil, crayon, just something to color with

What to do.

Once you have got the leaf you wanted and printed it out

have the kids color them. Both Eli and Ray used markers.

Then I had the boys choose what pom-poms they wanted to use.

After we got 6 big pom-poms out I put glue on the paper and let the

boys put the pom-poms on top in the order they wanted. After we got the

big pom-poms on we took 4 little ones and made antennas with them. Then 

comes the eyes and mouth.. That's it :) The one Eli and I made we sent to 

Joshua in a care package so he could see it. :)

Sorry I don't remember what site I got mine from.

This is Eli's leaf. 

Yes he tried eating it.

This is Ray :)

He wanted a smile and nose

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Cloud Dough

This weird looking stuff is cloud dough it's easy to make and smells pretty good. This is like moon sand that you can by in stores

What you will need

8 cups of flour

 1 cup baby oil

Food coloring

What to do.

Mix it together.

As you can see it can be molded

I did this last week when I was super busy. I don't have alot to say on it.

I'm not sure how long it will be good or but it's in a freezer bag in the arts and crafts bin






















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Homemade Play dough

So this week we've made some home made play dough for the boys to play with. Much to my surprise everyone including my mom and sister ended up playing with. This was my first time making play dough and I was going to do a double patch to make more colors but I didn't have enough cream of tartar. After I go to the store tomorrow I will  make some more and update this post with the new colors. I will also take pics of each step as I do them and add them to the bottom of the post in order.

What you will need..

1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cream of tartar
Food coloring

Directions

Combine water, flour , oil, salt, cream of tartar, and food coloring in a saucepan and heat until warm

Stir, then knead until smooth. The cream of tartar makes this dough last 6 months or longer, so resist the temptation to omit this ingredient if you don't have it on hand.

Store this dough in an airtight container or a Ziploc freezer bag.

Also Eli (14 months ) only tried to eat this once and after he tasted it he took it out of his month and said yucky so I don't have to worry about him trying to eat it again ( I hope )

After it was cooked I put it on a pizza  pan to cool

After it cooled I made the dough  into 1/4. After that I made them  into  little  balls  and  pushed  a hole into the middle.

Then I dropped the food coloring into the holes.

All closed up.

My mom couldn't wait to see what colors I did and started playing with it to spread the  food  coloring  around.

Neon Pink

Neon Purple 

Neon Green

Neon Blue ( it didn't want to spread evenly like the other but it's super blue )

playcreateexplore also made some scented kinds  Here

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