Lunch Time learning

During lunch today we had an enlightening moment. Daylan was eating some chips and doupe doupe when he screamed "STOP; its a stop sign." He recognized the shape of the chips to the shape of the stop sign. Lunch time can be an educational time too!

apple pancakes

 saute apples with a little butter

 put apples in batter

 put on the griddle

 flip and enjoy

Its getting to be the season for apples. We went apple picking at a local farm last week. Now what to do with all these apples. This morning we made apple pancakes. On the wholefoods app I found a great recipe for apple pancakes. I used to shred in the apples or just cut them raw and throw them in, but this recipe had me saute them first. So much better!  I always use applesauce instead of butter and try for whole wheat flour, we don't have any gluten issues, whenever possible. We also added a bit of oatmeal for added texture.

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/318

metal stamping

 First washer without the black ink in the names 

Tools needed

 washers without ink, be careful of letter placement(the E is backwards)

 ink stamped (some letters could have been stamped a little harder)

 Simple pendant of my baby girl

My first try at metal stamping was a success. I bought a metal stamping kit online. While waiting for it to arrive I gathered some washers for practice in my dads work bench.

So to metal stamp washers you need a hard surface, hammer, stamping kit and permant black marker.



I picked out which letters I wanted and simple hammered them onto the washers. Then I traced over the letter and wiped off the excess quickly with a baby wipe.

I think they look pretty good for first try samples!
I was looking around the house for other things to stamp since it was so easy and fun. I think the next project will be spoons....

kids lounger refurbished

I refurbished my old lounger chair my dad gave me from the garage this summer. Its so comfy and Daylan loved to relax in it after the summer festivities. The canvas was old and stained with garage goo, so I bought a half a yard of super cute fabric at hobby lobby and went to work. 2 screws out, replacing the old fabric and stitching it up by matching the old over the new; super easy! What do you think?

home made place mats

We made some place mats for meal time.  Daylan colored on a piece of paper and then I ran it through the laminator. Easy as pie. The doodles are endless; focus on school with numbers, letters, colors, etc. Kids pictures. Any other ideas to brighten up meal time?

First try success

I tried glass etching for the first time! What success! I cut out what I wanted from the cricuit using vinyl( bought martha stewart shelf liner at michael's $2) and armour etch (with a 40% off coupon, $8)! Simply peel backing off vinyl and stick on to surface. Then paint on the cream and 5 minutes later wash off and voila etched glass. I want to etch every glass surface! What's your favorite thing to etch?

We finally got a SUNFLOWER

Daylan has been watering and checking his sunflower almost every day since we planted them in the back yard and it finally popped open! He was so excited! Next year I think we will plant some more so they aren't so lonely.

Shadow City at night

A shadow city at night! A fun craft project that involves chalk and cut outs. We cut out a city scape then traced the outline with chalk. Then we placed the cut out on a piece of black paper and smeared the edge onto the black; peeled off the cut out and viola, A CITY! Daylan added some windows and doors with a yellow pencil. This would be perfect for preschool talk of community, city lesson. The cut outs could be endless and be incorporated into any activity. I loved the crisp results here.