Valentine's Day Ideas

 Make a giant heart cookie pizza using refrigerator cookie dough and pink frosting with

shredded white chocolate with sprinkles... 

 Make a love tree...

 with special love notes and quotes...

 make pink play dough...

 Make special love notes each day in February for your husband (or wife)...leaving special treats too...

let him know he's your muscle man and he's still your hero!

 Send him a love email....

 winter heart crafts...

 heart collages...

 paint with red, pink and white paint and let the kiddos mix it all up!

 Make these bingo dabber, coffee filter, tie dye hearts...

or these cards for your sweetie....

(left) finger print heart card

(middle) tissue paper rose card

(right) sticker heart card...

Hoping to make this...

Love your sweeties!!

Last Minute Fall/Halloween Stuff

 If you don't have much time,

 and have to bring something to a party

 or just want to do something fun with your kiddos,

 this is the snack!!

SO easy,

 just melt white vanilla chips, (2 bags)

 dunk Nutter Butters (1 package) in the melted chips,

 and add mini chocolate chip eyes and mouth,

 let set for about a 1/2 hour

That's it!!  

They were a hit!

I did the dunking, the girls did the chocolate chips 

and it only took about a 1/2 hour to make.

You could use these for All Souls day this week too.

 One party down, 2 more to go!

Strike that Ninja, we had Darth Vader instead.

(got the costume for like $6 last year, after Halloween, the pumpkin,wig and tiger were only a buck!)

(we painted the orange shirt with black stripes for a tiger a couple years ago)

 We saw this Art project here and had to try it!

We used regular white paper and made sure to color the colors first,

 so the black would not bleed into the colors

They turned out great!

Even More Fall Art (OK, last one for today)

 Water paint paper anyway your kiddo (or you) wish

We used regular kid paint and water in a bowl to water it down for a brighter effect.

We also used watercolor paper, which turns out better, but regular paper works fine too.

 Painting and snacking on nuts....

 OK, mine is the middle one, I admit, I love Art.

I always wanted to be a Kindergarten teacher, because of the Art!!

(my first grader also loves these projects though....)

The top row is an example of an Art project gone bad, but turned out OK in the end.

I planned on the girls using Elmer's Glue to outline fall leaves, 

which they did, 

the next step, after it dried 

was to water paint in between the dried glue part.

BUT

while I chased after my 2 year old busy body...

(gone for literally 2 minutes)

They had gotten out the glitter and it was everywhere

and filled in the glue.

It turned out pretty anyway and we never did do it the way I had planned!

More Fall Art!

 Ripped paper trees!!!

Just rip construction paper, in fall colors...

 Glue on paper!

Fall Art

 Just remember if I'm posting it, 

It's easy!!

Paint on a paper plate, 

Q-tips for painting...

 Trace or draw tree with no leaves with pencil, 

Then have the kiddos paint....

OK, mama likes to paint too...can you tell which one is mine?

Fall Leaves

 Don't forget to save some of those beautiful fall colors!

Marble Painting!

 Well, Colette waited so patiently all week and did finally get to marble paint on Friday!!

She picked the colors....I knew she'd pick yellow with something, oh, what a surprise!

Yellow and pink.

(her favorite colors, in that order)

 First, dip the marbles in paint, as many as you want, we used like 5 I think...

 Then, place your paper inside a box, and drop the marbles in with a tweezers, and roll them around!

If you are nice big sister, you will then, show you little sister how it's done!!

And your beautiful artwork will brighten the house!

Homemade Sidewalk Paint

I saw this sidewalk paint somewhere, on some craft blog, but can't remember where....so I can't give the credit where it is due...sorry!

 The Recipe is:

1/4 cup Cornstarch

1/4 cup water

food coloring of your choice

That's it!  Super easy!

 It dries like chalk and washes off like chalk too! 

I'm trying out this new blogger editor, but it is confusing me....I'm having to fix the font every time I am on a new line....and the pictures seem, uh, I think I got it!  Oh, maybe not.....might have to go back to old editor.

Cute Easter Chicks!

Spring brings Easter,

Spring brings Easter,

Celebrate!

Celebrate!

Jesus Christ is Risen!

Jesus Christ is Risen!

Celebrate!

Celebrate!
(sung to the tune of Freres Jacques)

Wordless Wednesday-Art

H/T Stripes