Lettuce Crochet Pattern

Green yarn and an H hook

Row 1: Ch 3 join to form a ring

Row 2: Ch 3(counts as first dc) , 9 dc in ring (10 dc) join

Row 3: Ch 3, dc in same space, 2 dc in each dc (20 dc) join

Row 4: Ch 3, 2 dc in same space, 3 dc in each dc (60 dc) join

Repeat row 4 once, end off.

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Swamp Juice

Ingredients:

2 (3 ounce) packages lime flavored gelatin mix

1 quart hot water

1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice

2 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed

4 cups cold water

yellow and blue food coloring, optional

2 liters ginger ale

gummy worms, for garnish

Directions:

Dissolve gelatin in 1 quart of hot water. Allow to cool.

When gelatin is cool, pour into a large punch bowl. Stir in pineapple juice, orange juice concentrate and cold water. Add food coloring (if desired) until preferred color is reached (start with a couple of drops of each). Pour in ginger ale just before serving. Garnish with gummy worms.

~makes 20 servings~

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Green Bath

The pics really explain how this bath went. The boys loved it. 

Mcm stop taking pics of me...

Here is the last green bath we did for green week.

Streamers :)

The balloons were a huge hit both boys are still playing with them 3 days later.

Green Shaving cream paint

This was a really dark green color

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Color weeks.Green week

So since we've done both Yellow week and Blue week I wanted to do Green week next to teach Eli that when you mix colors you get a new one. So here is everything we've done so far this week with the color Green. :)

Super green bath with all of green toys we could find.

Weird looking tree

Homemade bath paint ( Made with shaving cream and food coloring.

Leaf coloring 

Tomorrow we will be using this for something else. 

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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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Pudding Paint

So I wanted something for my Eli (14month) to be able to do. I was looking for some fun easy ways for him to make stuff for us to send to his dada or just do around the house and one of the things I found was Pudding Paint. It's so easy to make and it's safe for him to eat . (He likes to put stuff in his mouth so whatever we do it has to be safe to eat

What you need is..
Pudding mix ( I got vanilla )
Milk
Food coloring ( you can use whatever color or make new colors)
Bowls ( How ever many colors you have you will need a bowl for each)
something to mix it with.
paper

SO start off by making the pudding mix in a large bowl.

Put into different bowls ( I think I did 1/4 in each bowl)

Add the food coloring. ( I didn't count the drops. Just put till you
get the color you want.

Set up the painting area ( I have a storage bin he  an fit into)

Now just let them paint :)

See everything must go into his mouth 

He was super sticky after he got done but nothing a quick shower couldn't fix. With using the storage bin for him it was a super fast and easy way to clean everything back up.... The colors did come out pretty pastel and had kind of a yellow tint but that was due to the pudding. If you have older kids or you want to change the flavor of the pudding you can also add extracts to it.

I really hope everyone gets a chance to try this with their little ones you can start this kind of painting at a pretty young age and like I said he had a blast.

If you would like to see the AWESOME website that I got this idea from here is the link http://www.playcreateexplore.com/2011/10/painting-with-puddiing.html

There's all kinds of ideas on there. If you get a chance to try pudding paint let me know what you used and how it turned out.

Have a wonderful and fun day everyone.

Greenishblue nails for 10/18/2012

So this is what I have done to my nails this week nothing to dramatic or anything just a simple Green with Blue sparkle :)
I used Wet N Wild Fastdry in 225c sage in the city.
Wet N Wild Fastdry in Clear Top.
Essence Color & Go in ( I can't find the name on the bottle but it's a blueish green color with sparkles)

Now here is what I did to get this look

1. I did 3 coats of the Sage in the city
2. 1 coat of Essence on all my fingers
3. on my ring finger I put another coat of Essence to make it more blue then the others 4. 1 coat of clear I know the lighting is alittle off in the pics but it really is a beautiful color when done :)