Egg Paint

So way back in the day (like before year 1500) paint was made with egg yolk and called egg tempera. Today we made some of our own using some spices I had in the cupboard and some fun neon food coloring. I wanted to paint some eggs with egg so I did another few "blow out" eggs and we mixed up some egg and water with our colors.  Typically I think you just use the yolk but because of the blow out method the yolk gets mixed with the whites when it comes out and I didn't want to waste the eggs so if we, I mean when we do this again we will do straight egg yolk and water. I think it came out really pretty and I love the finish it has when it dries. I think I will be more prepared next time with more spices or diff juices that can make an array of colors. What we had on hand though worked great and was a learning experience for me and Biggs!

Faberge Eggs

Biggs made the most beautiful Faberge Eggs. I drilled a couple holes (1/16 drill bit) and got the "egg" out of the egg and let biggs go to town with glitter! The polka dot one was easy and fun, I used glue dots and let him sprinkle glitter. The other one we just painted in mod podge and he got to shakin! I will probably spray them with some sort of sealer just to keep the glitter on and protect the egg so we can have them out every year, and since the season has just begun I'm sure we will make a few more of these because they were so fun. Enjoy!

Spring!

Wow it's so nice to get back to our projects. We had taken a little break for a while to get prepared for the Bigg birthday party but now that things are back to normal we can get on with welcoming the spring season! We've got big plans for this spring and hopefully can share them all with you as we hop along in this time of new life and growth and CHOCOLATE (Yes it's all about the easter candy, yum)!
The last few days we have done a few things so I'm just going to put them all in this one blog. Biggs made a beautiful butterfly with his hand prints, a lovely spring flower from a paper plate, and today we made a nice little bird house/feeder.

For his flower we used a paper plate and the marble painting technique. I taped down the plate put some marbles with paint and let him try to figure out a method to get the paint on the plate. It's challenging because the plate is raised so he had a lot of fun trying different directions and speeds. 

For our birdhouse/feeder I had an empty plastic container and cut a hole on two sides and left one side with a ledge and we added a little deck for the birds. To decorate we painted it with glue and put some tissue paper. 

This is adorable! Biggs got his own camera for his birthday and he told me "mom! I have to get my camera and take a picture of my project!".

Rain Clouds

Since it is January and winter somewhere far away we are learning about clouds and rain/snow. I have seen this project a few places but always in a small jar. We don't do small, so we made a giant raincloud! We talked about what a cloud is and made up of then we got to work making our own. Shaving cream, water, dropper, and food coloring. Put some water in a container, cover the top with shaving cream, and drop blue colored water onto the cloud (shaving cream) and practice your patience waiting for your cloud to fill up and rain! Was pretty fun if I do say so!

Didn't I tell you in a previous post, three year olds are notorious for goofy faces. Ahh Biggs I love you!

It is pretty exciting.

Look at that, our cloud has started raining! Woo woo!

Solar Dino Robot

Hola!

Does anyone else feel like time is flying by? Yikes! Well we have been doing projects but with some bumps along the way we have gotten behind on the posts so I will be playing catch up for a bit.  Our awesome cousin gave Biggs a solar powered Dinobot and he got to help assemble it, it was pretty cool! Thanks cousin! We put this together before we got our amazing rain storms!!!

For some reason when a child is approaching three they no longer like to make nice faces it's like they can't physically not make a goofy face! Lol!

I love this, my little engineer.

Yes he learned how to use the screwdriver. If anybody needs a tiny handyman he's well on his way!

It works, amazing!

Frozen Fun Ice Cream

On our warm winter day we wanted to play with something cold and frozen so we had a pretend ice cream party! I froze shaving cream and made some sprinkles out of colored star pasta. This wasn't my idea I saw it here. I used cocoa powder for the chocolate, couple drops of pink food coloring, and left some white. I found some color changing spoons at the dollar store and gave Biggs some scoopers and cupcake holders. It was really fun and looked and felt just like ice cream, so much so that Biggs forgot and took a taste LOL, was pretty funny. What made this really fun though was that I was getting my pretend ice cream from none other than... BatMan!!!

Butter in a jar & Melted Snowman

Friday was daddy's birthday and we wanted to make him pancakes but we wanted to make them extra special so we made our own butter and buttermilk! Let me tell you, if you've never made butter than you must! It was so fun and satisfying and I can honestly say I had more fun with it than Biggs did. If you want to make it just google "butter in a jar".  It was easy and a workout and I definitely will make it again in the future. Basically you take heavy whipping cream pour it in a jar with two marbles and shake it for 15 mins and you will have butter. The exciting part comes in watching the transformation and then being amazed that you and your toddler made something so darn useful! We buttered our pancakes with it and used the butter milk in the pancake mix they were delicious. I also finished using the butter in my german chocolate cake cupcakes! Yum!

Biggs is a pro at pouring! We measured 1 cup of cream.

Put it in the jar...

drop in the marbles...

shake? Really ma?  I get to shake this jar?!

Heck yeah!

This is when it got thick and I got to take over the shaking. Next time I might just put a little in a baby food jar so he can do the whole process.

Here it is, our butter about 1/2 cup and the butter milk. Sorry no pictures of the pancakes we were too busy eating!

 Today our project was a melted snowman which is quite fitting since it's warm and sunny where we live right now ;-(

I'm a little snowman

Short and fat

Here is my broomstick 

Here is my hat

When the sun comes out

I melt away...

Down, down, down, down,

Oops 

I'm a puddle!