“Tie-Dye” Cupcakes
Recently I made a Rainbow layer cake for my son’s birthday. I had a box of cake mix leftover and thought I would try making a cupcake version of this cake. I made the White Cake Mix and then divided it into 4 bowls, I dyed each bowl and then scooped spoonfuls into muffins cups. I baked for 15 minutes at 350. They kids loved them. Looking back, I wish I would have swirled the colors around a little bit with a toothpick. I did not frost them, too messy and less sugar. If you make these, share your link in the comments please, I would love to see them!
Kick-Off: Let Fall School Projects Begin
Love this time of year! Who doesn’t, really? I think I write about it every year, unlike the other seasons. Just something about the Fall. It officially starts today, yay! Thought we would kick off the many, many Fall activities we will be doing this season, so excited! We started by doing a leaf study. I purchased this really cool kit from the Used Curriculum sale at my local Homeschool Convention. The kit includes many samples of leafs, each in their own plastic sleeve and label. The Tree Finder book has every kind of tree you can find in North America, comes with illustrations and descriptions. The workbook, guides you…
Art Time with the Boys
This year we are doing Adventures in My Fathers World, included in that is “I Can Do All Things” art lesson book. We did assignments out of there to start off our homeschool week. The lessons are good but it starts out with coloring and drawing and my boys were dying to paint something. So I headed over to Pinterest and searched for Kids Painting, got so many great results but one piqued my interest. It was a paper with swirls, dots, waves and stripes. I thought it would be a perfect, easy and fun lesson with the boys. The original post is here at Be a Fun Mum. I…
Fun with Shaving Cream
Recently I discovered another amazing blog! This one is called Meet the Dubiens. I have seen so many things on this blog that I want to do with my kids. Very inspiring! Our first inspiration we did today. She mixed food coloring with shaving cream and used it as paint for her kids bath time. We did not make it for bathtime, just craft time. I let them play at their little table and gave them some utensils. I do wish I would have had primary colors, Oliver was mixing colors and discovering new colors, would have been more effective with primary colors. I am still trying to use up…
Summer Centers
We love centers! I used them throughout the past school year for all 3 boys. Some structured some as free-play. The boys are always happy to pull them out and play with them it is a guaranteed 30 minutes of constructive play. For the Summer I reorganized them, rearranged and grouped different things together to get the boys geared up for summer indoor activities. I put everything in one cabinet thanks to my sister who gave me a nice white cabinet. Thanks Tia! Melissa and Doug Pattern Blocks and Boards Styrofoam shapes – Good for Math, Sorting and Building 10 Base T set – great for Math and Building Random Tools (thanks…
Making Art with Rice
I am always looking for fun ideas the kids. They love experiments and art. This Summer, I signed us up for the Activities Challenge at education.com. They have a sortable list of activities for kids. Arts & Crafts, Science, Games and Summer Fun are just some of the categories listed. We have done a few of the activities and the kids have really enjoyed them. Today we chose the “Make Rice Pictures” activity. We needed: Rice Food Coloring Rubbing Alcohol Glue Paintbrush Construction Paper The only step I added: I thinned my school glue down with a little water and let the kids apply it with a paintbrush. I only laid…
Remember These?
I have such fond memories of watching my teacher use a felt board to tell a story. LOVED it so much. Gathering around her and finding a comfy spot to watch the story unfold. Always wanted to get some to play with as a kid but never did, seemed like a teacher “exclusive” item. I looked at my local Education store and they are so expensive I could not justify the cost. However, now that I started to homeschool I went to my favorite consignment sale to find educational materials. Imagine how excited I was to find a Storyboard Felt set. Nothing fancy, in fact it looks like it could be from…
Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards
This year I was invited to a Valentine’s Card making get-together and had so much fun that I had one for the women in my family, that was also a blast. When it came time to think about the kids Valentine’s cards this year, it was a no brainer that they would make homemade ones as well, I had all the supplies ready to go. In previous years, especially since they were in school, it was easy to just go pick up some pre-made ones. Now that we homeschool we do more homemade things then ever, we have the time and resources so why not? The boys made some for…