Summer Bucket List

Here is our 2014 Summer Bucket List

 

Did you make one? Share your link!

 

 

Nature Paint outside

Today while we were getting ready to go outside to paint, I thought.. How can I make this more interesting for her? How can I expand on the outdoor painting experience? While gathering our paint and brushes, K grabbed her scissors and asked to cut. That's it! We brought her scissors out as well, and she cut grass, dandelions and lilacs. So we put her cuttings and some mud in cups and mixed them up with paint to creat Nature Paint. :) So simple and fun.

 

 

Bucks County Childrens Museum (New Hope, PA)

 

We had a great play day today at the Bucks County Children's Museum

in New Hope, PA!

Birthday cupcake play dough

 

birthday cake playdough

 

 1 cup flour

1 cup water

1/4 cup salt

2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 Tbls. vegetable oil

food coloring (I used 4 drops)

a few drops of vanilla extract

glitter

Just dump all the ingredients into your pot and give them a good stir.

Knead when cool.

 

I gave her gems, birthday candles, and cupcake wrappers to make it even more fun!

Birthday Bath! (Can't believe she's already 3!!)

 

I wanted to really stress to K how special her birthday is, so to

continue the fun, I made her this birthday bath! I had everything on hand, so it didn't

cost anything extra! First, I added pink food dye to the water. Then I hung up the sign from her

birthday party last year and painted a 3 on the wall. I added some washable kids paint to

shaving cream so that she could make a cake in the pan I saved for play. In the bath, I added a few toys from the dollar store to balloons before I blew them up. I also added a drop of blue food dye to a couple balloons before filling with water for color mixing.

Mud Day!

Glowing Ice Stars

We made glowing ice stars! First you need to make Glow Water.

This will give you the green stars. The bluish stars were made using tonic water.

Then fill your trays and freeze overnight.

To get them to glow, turn off the lights, turn on the black light ($10 at Walmart),

and have fun!