Flash Cards

I started getting these flash cards for Lilly when she was a baby, but as she got older they always ended up all over the place and they started getting crumpled!! So I bought the snap rings and used a single hole puncher and punched the holes in the top left corner! These are just a few of our flash card sets we have, now as soon as we get a new set I add the snap ring!

 Here's a close up of the snap ring

 This set of flash cards are all "Same and Different" so I thought it would be fun if I laminated them so Lilly can use a dry erase marker on them!! We have a laminating machine so I used the sheets you can buy at Target or Walmart, the kind you put threw the heat machine ( I think they are so much stronger then the sticky laminating sheets)

The "Same and Different" set I bought at Target in the Dollar section at the begging of the school year last year so I bet they will have something like this year again soon!

Dry Erase Workbooks

I made these workbooks for Lilly at the begging of the school year last year! She has loved them! I bought the books at Target in the dollar section. They will probably have them again when school starts up. The pictures were great with really bright cute colors and this way she can reuse them and when Raley gets older she can use them too!! I took the all the pages out and put them in separate clear protector sheets so she can use dry erase markers on them. I then found all these binders in the basement, I liked the kind with the clear pocket fronts and sides.

This was the front of the workbook and cute it off and stuck it down the front of the binder. For the side of the binder I cut off the top part on the back of the workbook and slide it down the side so I could see what book it is without taking them all out every time!

The inside to one of the Work Binders

Our Past Week!

Every Sunday I am going to do a post of pictures of our week! Mostly because it is nice to reflect about the week that has pasted and for family to see that live out of town.. This one is a Little late but it was a great week!! The girls and I had a blast!! We had Gardening classes, Picked blueberry's, went to the buffalo farm and bought some meat, played with horses, went swimming, went to my sisters greenhouse/bee's/new puppy party, played with "J and A's" new puppy, played lots of games and did lots of art projects and played ALOT with friends! Here are some of the pictures!

 Lilly at her Gardening class

New Puppy

Picking Blueberrys

We arrived at the Berry Patch to late in the day most of the good berrys were gone.  Next week!

Bufflo Farm

Me and Ray. Lilly was running threw the sprinkler and Raley got scared and ran to sit in my lap and watch. She would not take her eyes off of those sprinklers it was so cute!!

Lillys 4th Birthday Party !!

This is the table where the kids painted the "Fairy Houses". I flipped two flower pots upside down and used wood from the workshop for the top. I have all the "Fairy Houses" set out for when the kids arrived! I was wanting to use big tree stumps the size of the pots in the pic but I could not find ANY at all. All the stumps on craigslist were rotten or you needed a chainsaw to cut them apart, and I have not learned how to use a chainsaw yet...

These are the Fairy Houses the Lilly and I painted! I put them in the middle of the table for inspiration for the girls to get started!

Concentrating on Painting her Fairy House

 Ray Painting her fairy house

They had a great time!

This was my FIRST cake that I have made from scratch! I was excited with how it turned out! I made all the flowers with gum paste! I had a fairy standing out of the middle of the cake ( it was removed in this pic) and I wanted the flowers to look like they were falling down the side of the cake and sparkler candles!!! The inside of the cake I made in layers of pink, It would have had another layer of pink but it stuck to the pan. Bummer. Lilly was really excited when she finally saw her cake because she had not seen it before I brought it out! I made it in secret! She especially loved the inside!! I also made the icing from scratch! It was so good!! The layers of cake are not the same size I just eyeballed it and tried to hurry I had limited time without Lilly seeing it.

We had pink lemonade to drink! For snacks we had Cupcake Kabbobs ( Cupcakes with icing, Marshmellows, Waffle cookies ) All kinds of yummy cookie!

Our Super Slip in Slide with my Brother in law Jason!

Lilly and Mason (my newphew) playing in the sprinklers 

Lilly loved her Birthday ! She is STILL telling me she is the Birthday girl and its halfway threw june. All the kids had a Blast, the party was supposed be from 1:00-3:00pm but did not end untill 6:pm!!

Happy Father's Day!!

I hope everyone is having a Great Fathers Day!!!

The girls and I are off to Lowes and then to work in the garden, its Booming!!

Summer Jar!

I made one of these last summer for Lilly but I did not have a lot of ideas for it or least it felt that way halfway threw the summer! When she wakes up each day she picks one out, then Iam going to keep the card she picked out for a week or two so we don't have repeats to close together!

GeoCaching

World’s Best Bubbles

Lava Lamp

Go Fishing

Worm Hunt

Make or Find a Snow Cone

Make Popsicles

Make Play doe

Make Goop

Make Slim

Make Bath Paints

Make Bath Crayons

Make sponge Balls and get out pool

Make Sidewalk Paint

Make Colored Ice cubes for a Bath or Pool

Ice cube slide race

Go on a Flower Hunt

Bubble Snakes

Go on a Hike

Have a Picnic

Feed the Ducks

Catch Firefly’s

Bike Wash

Make Puffy Paint

Miniature Golfing

Tie Dyeing

Water Balloon Fight

Treasure hunt in Creek

Make G.A.K

I linked how to get the instructions for everything that I could.

World’s Best Bubbles:

http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2010/05/06/diy-the-worlds-best-bubbles/

LavaLamp:

1: http://slsmithphotography.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/06/lava-lamps-summer-fun.html

2: http://meetthedubiens.blogspot.com/2011/01/lava-bottles.html

Slim and GAK:

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2010/09/kids-in-the-kitchen-slime/

Spong Balls:

http://onecharmingparty.com/2011/03/23/water-party-sponge-ball-tutorial/

GeoChaching:

http://www.geocaching.com/

Puffy Paint:

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2010/06/10/how-to-make-puffy-paint-from-one-crafty-mumma/

Bath Paints: Two kinds one liquid and one with shaving cream. 1:http://meetthedubiens.blogspot.com/2010/11/bubble-bath-paint.html

2:http://meetthedubiens.blogspot.com/2011/03/rainbow-shaving-cream-bath-paint.html

I printed out the Activities and then backed them to card stock! For the Bucket I bought it at Joann's for $1.99 and used vinyl and the cricut! Side note see that Jar with rocks in it to the right? Those rocks Lilly picked up on the preschool playground everyday and would bring them to me when I picked her up. She was always so excited to show me her rocks that she collected for me, so I put them in that Large Jar to keep!! She so cute!! We have had a blast doing these so far!! I hope it gives you good some good ideas!!

Toadstools !!

So for the Toadstools I used the left over particle board from making the bottom to  Lilly's and Raley's Playhouse. Then I went to Lowe's were they had these table legs on clearance for .30 cents!! Yeah!! I then took a cake pan that was the size that I wanted for the seats and traced around it to make 10 seats bottoms. Then my dad came home and things got crazy. I need his help cutting the wood because I had no idea how I was going to. But I knew it could be done since the man owns like 5 of every of saw... So I showed him how I drew the circle out of the wood so nicely and he mumbled something about it "taking up the WHOLE garage and my mom couldn't park her car"..yada yada yada and I jumped in my car yelled "Wait for me before you cut ANYTHING dad" he purred "Ohhh sure" and off to Starbucks I went. Probably all of 13 mins later I was back..and  could not find him. So down to the shop I go, and threw open the door and I found him. Sanding the last of my nicely cut circles. He smiled and said "It's all done so since I did that you can take out the trash over there. Whelp. Normally I would have looooved him doing this for me BUT I reeeeally did want to learn how to cut the circles out.  Oh Well , he said he cut them all out in to ten squares with a saber saw and then cut the circles out with the saber saw as well because you have to spin the would to get the circle and you cant spin a huge piece of wood so that is why he cut them to small squares.

I then drilled down each leg ( so It would not split the wood)  and then screwed them in.

Took a staple gun and stabled the felt top to the bottom side of he wood and left a small opening where I stuffed batting in. Then folded the opening over and stapled that shut.

To get the top of the toadstool. I used red felt and the same cake bottom that I traced the wood with. I traced the felt with it and then cut it two inches bigger then the circle, so It would give me room to fold it over. I cut white circles out and then top stitched them to the red felt, Oh and I painted the legs brown.

Here they are at the party!