Pinterest Fun - Day 5

Today we made windsocks. We used a variety of items for the main body (tin can, oatmeal container & coffee can) and we used spray paint, star stickers and ribbon for the rest.
I got the idea from here:
http://the-wilson-world.blogspot.com/2011/06/4th-of-july-tin-can-windsocks.html

My plans to do this activity were foiled when the landlords came and turned the sprinklers on again this afternoon. Leaving my yard soaking wet. (I understand you guys like green lawns, but this is getting ridiculous!) Then the neighbors who moved came back for the afternoon to clean some more so Kylie played with Beau & Hayden. And Sidney took her afternoon nap about 1.5 hours later than she normally does. It's been a long day!

We still sprayed our cans outside after the neighbors left and then brought them in to finish them once they were dry. I'm glad we ended up doing the rest inside though. It was so hot today. Although, Kylie doesn't seem to understand that 96* is too hot to play outside! It has been in the 90's all week and is suppose to stay in the 90's through Tuesday. Ick!

She had a hard time pushing the button, but

with some help, we got them all sprayed.

 

tin can, oatmeal container, (plastic) coffee can

 

Kylie got to put on the stickers and cut the ribbons for me. We had two different kinds of ribbon because our local craft/fabric store is mostly a fabric store and she doesn't keep anything else stocked very well.

She focused very hard on getting those stickers on.

 

 

 

I got to use my new glue gun to add the ribbons. I am super excited to finally have a glue gun! Yea!
I am looking forward to using it on a ton of crafts this summer! I did the gluing part after the girls went to bed. I don't have my kitchen table cleaned off, so the only place for me to glue is on the floor. Sidney figured out that even though the gate is up to the kitchen, she can crawl through my room, the bathroom and then her room and get into the kitchen that way. If I was thinking earlier, I would have just shut my door to my room, but I obviously wasn't thinking. :)

Here are our finished windsocks. I will update a photo tomorrow once I find the twine to hang them up with. Just need to find the perfect branch to hang them on outside! :)

Pinterest Fun - Day 4

Today was nice and busy! This morning we had playgroup. It was at a local mom's house this week since she has a great big backyard and a pool. Kylie got to play in a big pool and jump on a trampoline and Sidney got to splash in the kiddie pool and play in the sprinkler. They also got a picnic lunch, so that makes everything more fun!

During Sidney's nap Kylie and I got to play with some snow. :) Kinda. It was actually frozen shaving cream. I had bought a can of Skintimate shaving gel, and after spraying it into my little tub, I realized it wasn't gonna work. It didn't puff up. So I went and got my can of shaving cream and that fluffed up like I was looking for. So, she got two versions of Summer snow. I popped them in the freezer last night and she got to play with them this afternoon.
The gel worked out kinda cool though because it froze solid and we got break it up like little pink ice cubes. It was pretty fun.

Afterwards, we both played in her pool, lounged around on towels eating chips, drew with some chalk and played hopscotch. It was a lot of fun. Like usual.

I then spent the evening rearranging my bedroom and Sidney's room, since we got a dresser from the neighbors when they moved. Kylie spent the evening eating ice cream and entertaining her sister. :)

Mike got put on initial attack, but I'm not quite sure if he is doing much. He texted earlier that he is bored. :) He also sent a pic that showed me the elevation of where he was hiking. 11,537 feet. Yikes.

Anyways - here are out pictures. :)

The fluffiness difference.

 

She wasn't really too sure about playing

with it until I stuck my hands in.

 

 

The completely frozen gel chunks

 

lathering up!

 

 

Then we added water to wash up the table and made

it all frothy. She enjoyed it!

 

And a random spaghetti face of Sidney from tonight.

:)

 

Here is the link from the Summer Snow.

http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2013/05/play-recipes-summer-snow.html

Pinterest Fun - Day 3

Today we made moon sand. I have seen this multiple times on Pinterest, each with a different proportion of the two ingredients. So we just went in the middle and it worked great. Kylie had fun helping measure out the ingredients, mixing it all together and playing in it!
So, 5 cups of flour and 1 cup of baby oil later, we got Moon Sand!!

Pouring in some flour

 

Pouring in the baby oil

 

playing

 

molded into a ball -

we even made a little snowman

 

She had started digging around in it going

"arrgh" like she was a pirate digging for treasure,

so I went in and got her some "treasure" to dig for

 

her "gold coins"

(sequence chips)

 

After some fun sand play, we got out some water balloons and played catch for a little while, until we popped them all. OMG - I knew it was hard to tie water balloons, but I really forgot how VERY hard it is! I think I put holes in or popped at least 8 in my lap before I got one tied. But Kylie found it amusing that I was getting soaked, so it was all good.

 

she was pretty excited to play catch with these guys

 

We also took turns chasing each other with the hose and I am impressed with how wet she got me. Then I set up the sprinkler and we ran through that for a bit and wet down the slide so she could have a water slide.

It was a fabulous day full of fun since we even spent this morning at the library and then had a picnic at the park. A Very full day and both girls are out cold for the night.

I am so grateful that Sidney takes a good long afternoon nap so I can focus on some Kylie time.

Hope you all had a great Wednesday!

Pinterest Fun - Day 2

Today we decided to do a couple of fun things while Sidney took her long afternoon nap.
The first thing we did was play with milk and food coloring. That doesn't sound too exciting, but when you add a toothpick dipped in dish soap, it is actually pretty cool. I am not really sure if this activity has a set name, so I just told Kylie we were going to do some milk painting.
Here are a few pics from this fun.

Before I handed over the toothpick

 

 

our second go round since the first was

so much fun

 

our pretty milk :)

 

Shortly after this, we busted out some rubber bands, paint, paper and a cookie sheet for some rubber band painting. Kylie got to help set it up and had quite a bit of fun playing with the rubber bands and splattering paint EVERYWHERE.

 

putting the rubber bands on

 

 

her first creation.

I love it!

 

 

her second one

 

I love her face in this photo. :)

 

I also love how she had her eyes closed and her head pulled

back almost every time when she pulled the bands up. :)

 



Kylie also helped me make a little sensory bag for Sidney to play with since she didn't get to join in our fun. Some hair gel, beads, beans and pom poms later, we had a little bag ready for her when she woke up. Needless to say she didn't really care about it at all. She greatly preferred the bag of pom poms instead. Oh well!

 

My big helper

 

Her sensory bag

 

Yea!!

 

Oooo - pom poms :)

 

And a cute picture of her napping this morning.

:)

 

I hope your Tuesday was as fun as ours!!

 

Tomorrow we are hitting the library for some new books (and some A/C) and we are going to tackle another Pinterest idea!





A Pinterest Week - Day 1

Since Mike has been gone for awhile and may still be gone for up to another 12-13 days, I am starting to go a little stir crazy with the girls.

This afternoon I sat down and went through my Pinterest boards and made a plan for something fun to do each day this week. We ran to town tonight and picked up a few things I would need to make this happen.

Tonight's activity was making some shirts to wear on the 4th of July. (This was more of an activity for me, but Kylie got to help a little).

I already had red rick rack, HeatnBond and a white onesie for Sidney. So I needed some blue ribbon and a white shirt for Kylie. We hit up the local craft store and got what we needed for tonight and for later this week. Then we went to Shopko to find a white shirt for Kylie. Little did I know it would be slightly difficult. There was nothing in the baby/toddler/preschooler section. So I went to the girls section. I saw an adorable white tank top that had a little lace and glitter on the top and bottom and was excited since it would be perfect and they had an XS. Then I looked at the price and saw that this little girls tank top was $17! I don't know about you, but I'm not buying my 3 year old a $17 tank top when I wouldn't even do that for myself! :)
Then I thought maybe they would have those undershirts you can buy for little girls. I was lucky enough to find a package of Fruit of the Loom tank tops that had a white tank in it. It was also the only size S there, so I lucked out! Kylie was also excited because the other two tanks in the package were a pink one and a purple one. (Her two current favorite colors!)

So after a some rick rack cutting, some extremely difficult bow making, and some serious HeatnBond issues; leading to tacky glue use; we finally got the shirts done. We made Kylie's first, and as a result, I like Sidney's better. :) Even though the iron made the red bleed out onto her white onesie a bit.

Here are the finished products (horrible pictures, I know). Looking forward to putting the girls in them on the fourth!

working on Kylie's shirt

 

my seriously horrible plan with the heatnbond

 

Yea Tack Glue! (here's to hoping the shirts don't

get too dirty and require serious washing! Ha,

who am I kidding!)

 

The finished product.

:)

 

Tomorrow is either going to be rubber band painting or moon sand. Not sure yet!

 

 

Here is the link to the site with the shirt idea. - I for the life of me can't make bows from scratch. And how she made her bows cute like that - I don't think I will ever figure out!

http://www.ourgoodfamily.org/2012/07/no-sew-flag-shirts-diy/ 

An ODD post

This is post is pretty much for my mother.

I spent the day trying to get fresh photos of the girls for her since they are going to my aunt's birthday party this weekend and will be seeing family.

I can't for the LIFE of me get them to attach to a freaking email, so the only way I can get them to her, is through this.

Hope you guys enjoy a bunch of random pictures of uncooperative girls on the first day of Summer!!