Triple Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

This is a great recipe for the kids to help with!

 

 

 Ingredients: 

1 box chocolate cake mix, 1/2 cup oil (or combination of applesauce and oil), 2 eggs, 1/4 c. of white chocolate chips and 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips. *Plus you will need sprinkles and chocolate if you choose to decorate them.

Mix ingredients together, form into 1" balls, bake for 8 min at 350*

*When cooled, drizzle with pink (or white) chocolate melts and top with red sprinkles.

These are ready to brighten someone's Valentine's Day :)

Homemade Play-Doh

tons of play-doh recipes

Snacktime Fun

My kids love when their food is decorated.

Ingredients: Graham crackers, peanut butter, raisins, craisins, mini candies and imagination.

Contact Paper Glitter Snowflakes

 A fun glitter project with no glue necessary.
Items needed: clear contact paper, scissors, glitter (not glitter glue) and tape to hang it up.

Step one: Fold and cut contact paper into snowflake shape.

 Step 2: Remove backing from contact paper.

 Step 3: Sprinkle with glitter until the entire snowflake is covered. (I suggest doing this in a bin or on a newspaper.)

Decorate your windows with some sparkle.

Foam Tub Stickers

Make hours of tub fun in a couple of minutes.

Cut out geometric shapes in various colors, plus tear drops, sun, moon, bumpy shapes for clouds/trees and a half circle for the bottom of a boat.

 Materials needed: scissors, craft foam (in various colors), bathtub, water and your imagination.

*Make sure they are big enough to not to fit in the drain.
You can also customize for your child's name, their age, make trucks, cars, people etc.

A free way to store your foam tub stickers. Use a mesh bag leftover from oranges and tie a tight knot at the bottom and loose knot at the top. You can use suction cups to attach to the tub or mirror. This allows plenty of air through the foam, so the stickers dry quickly.

Cookie Cutter Stamping

 Items needed: cookie cutters, paints, sponges(optional)
Dip and stamp, repeat many times, have fun.  *You can use your creation as wrapping paper.

Use wet sponges to press cookie cutters into, to clean during stamping fun.

Fairy Party Ideas

We did a fairy themed birthday party for my daughter's 5th birthday.
 We started the party out with a scavenger hunt- clues were on flowers through out the house. Each clue lead to another. The kids really enjoyed running around in a big group together. At the end they all found their prizes- a tiara and pair of wings for each.

Next they did two crafts-

Butterflies - which were tag board cut-outs from Hobby Lobby

they added eyes, stickers and colored with markers.

Then they did the more involved craft below:

Fairy Wands

Items Needed: Dowels, ribbons, craft foam, jewels/buttons/sequins, hot glue, cookie cutters.
You can find all of these items at Wal-Mart, Michaels, Hobby Lobby etc.

 Wrap ribbon around dowel. Secure with hot glue (at least the top and bottom).

Use cookie cutters to select your shapes, press in foam and cut two layers at once (so they match perfectly).

Glue dowel and skinny ribbons to cut foam.

Glue around the entire edge to secure top piece to bottom and dowel.

Decorate with hot glue and buttons, jewels etc.
We had all the dowels covered with ribbons and the foam cut-outs done beforehand. The girls chose which dowel, which cut-outs (we had hearts, stars and butterflies in multiple colors, so each was unique), which little ribbons and how to decorate. I glued them for each child. They held up through the silly games they played the rest of the party.

Fairy Cake

 Make wings by piping melted chocolate onto wax paper-sprinkle with colored sugar. (They don't take long to set).

 The decorations--cut out of colored paper to match your theme.