Turkey Plate

Biggs made a turkey handprint plate for the Thanksgiving holiday. I love making these plates. When Biggs was a baby we made several different plates and they make great keepsakes. The 99 cent store has clear glass plates and they are perfect for personalized gifts and decorations. You can paint whatever you want on the back of the plate and then spray it with a clear sealer and you have a perfect gift! For the turkey plate Biggs got his hand painted and stuck it on, when it dried he painted the background gold and tada!!! A perfect centerpiece or plate for our pumpkin bread (pumpkin bread coming soon...)!

Oh my goodness, doesn't he look like the new lil beanie babies with the big eyes? So cute! 

Giving Thanks 2014

Letters "K" & "L"

This week we added two more letters to our letter wall, K and L!

K is for key! We have lots of spare keys around so we dipped them in paint and stamped the paper, cut it in the shape of the letter K and glue it on paper!

L is for lint! Biggs had so much fun breaking up the lint and gluing it on our paper.

Bottle Turkeys

Hello, it's been a while since we have posted a project and will probably be a bit slow as I'm entering my last month of pregnancy and just feeling ready to pop! Lol!

The last couple of days we have been working on the cutest little turkeys! I used some glass bottles that I had saved (they were coffee drinks, but I've seen milk bottles at the craft store that would work too) some paint, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners. It's really easy but takes time for paint and glue to dry, so it goes...

Paint the outside of the bottle...

Once dry, pour on the glue.

I let Biggs bend the pipe cleaners (good for fine motor skills) and glue them on.

Googly eyes on and beaks...

Tada!!! They turned out so so cute!

We also started our "Thankful Pumpkins" we wrote down some of the things we are thankful for and hung them up around the house. As the days go by we will think of more things we are thankful for and add more pumpkins so by thanksgiving we can read them to each other and be grateful!

Biggs was so cute, his said that he is thankful for "making play dough", "playing with toys", "drinking water", "playing piano", and my favorite "for my friends, Alej, Leandro and Lauren"! So sweet. Can't wait to see what else he comes up with as the month goes on.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween everyone!

 BOO!!!

Spooooooky!!!

Such a happy ghost and witch!

Seriously? Can we get on with the trick or treating??? 

Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful halloween!

Birthday Cupcakes

Today my wonderful guys made me some spooky homemade birthday chocolate cupcakes.  Let me start by saying Daddy has never baked anything and after tasting these delicious cupcakes you would've never known. Yum!!! They were so cute in the kitchen and made a great team. I love my boys.

I have some little candy molds of skulls and bats and I made some so Biggs job was to add them after daddy frosted!

Biggs loved his cupcakes and so did I, thank you baby.

Spooky Jars

All over the internet are these adorable little ghost jars so I thought we would try to make some of our own. A lot of the posts I've seen are mason jar ghosts which are cute but expensive (not really but I mean when I have jars in cupboards and the fridge why buy jars) I recycled mine, I knew I wanted to use them for something so I have been saving one every couple of weeks. Anywhooo! Here it is...

Start with a jar...

turn it over and wait for paint to fall...

get impatient so roll it around in a box like a madman and finally...

just paint the darn thing!!!

This one I used glow in the dark mod podge and white paint I put a few drops of water so that when Biggs rolled it in the box it spread really fast. For the sweet little face we used Biggs thumb and spread it around!

With the little orange Jack O Lantern one I did glow in the dark mod podge first then some orange paint that way, it glows in the dark! These are so cute and you can put a real candle, fake candle, or LED light! Biggs loves glow in the dark everything so I know where these are going tonight! :-)

Happy Halloween

Monster Sunday

This morning started with some monster pancakes, we ended the afternoon with a monster mask!

Biggs decorated a little pumpkin with some stickers.

We made some monster face paint with vegetable shortening, corn starch, and food coloring (the black was some eyeshadow mixed with vegetable shortening and cornstarch). He was a spooky monster!!

Rawwwwwwwwwr!!!!!!

This is "GLOW" fun!!!

Today we had such a fun day visiting with our Auntie Lynn and Uncle Chris they drove down to have some early birthday and halloween fun with us! Thank you for all of our gifts and a wonderful visit.

After dinner and cake and all the hoopla we got busy with a spooky fun project fit for fall and halloween. I have been waiting to try some glow experiments for a while and we have just begun! I have seen other people do glow activities, a lot of time I see them using highlighter markers to make blacklight reactive activities, or people cut open glow bracelets/necklaces etc... I don't recommend any of that since it's not the healthiest thing to do. I found out that tonic water glows under a blacklight and it's super cheap and awesome, you can also make kid friendly glow drinks too! So I took some water beads (don't recommend for children who are still putting things in their mouth) and instead of soaking them in plain ole water I soaked them in Tonic water! This is the result! Some blacklight reactive water beads, oh yeah!

So, you don't have to have a spooky skeleton but it def adds some fun!

Biggs can look pretty spooky too!

I can't wait to try this for so many other things. If you have a little one who puts things in their mouth then try soaking some rice or pasta or tapioca balls. We are going to try everything!!! Check next time for our spooky glow experiments!

A few notes:

Tonic water is made with sugar so it is sticky so be prepared for tub time after or rinse the water beads before play. If you rinse though be careful not to get them in your drain I used a container and a colander and ran some water through a couple times. Okay, have fun!