Sea in the Sink: Small World Play

I've been using L's sink for a few fun activities lately. He loves to play in water and I can put a few towels at his feet, let him stand on a step stool and play.

The above picture is when I got a cup full of blue gravel and shells from our

 OCEAN SENSORY BIN, along with his ocean animals for afternoon of play.

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Oh the Possibilities of a Cardboard Box House

Cardboard box house. Obviously nothing new, and we've made them before, but today I took the extra cardboard from a few flaps and hot glued them into a shelf and also made a roof.

 Suddenly our cardboard house had so many more imaginary play possibilites!

It is currently being used as a fast food restaurant.

The owner is super friendly (and adorable I might add), the prices are great, and the food is DELICIOUS!

and yes, that is the view from INSIDE the box.

I squished as much of myself as I could in there so L could play customer for a while.

and then we took it outside so L could personalize it a bit

Ohhh the possibilities of a cardboard box house!

And seriously..what would I do without a hot glue gun?!

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The Children's Art Group: Hand/Foot/Fingerprint Art

The Children's Art Group

Hand/Foot/Fingerprint Art

After constantly wishing there was an alternative to the expensive art classes and camps, I decided to start a local Children's Art Group, now with 30 members. We have some awesome little artists, enthusiastic parents, and we are having a BLAST focusing on process art and projects.



For our 6th meeutp, we did a Hand/Foot/Fingerprint Art playdate. Hosted at a members house, she set up 2 different stations for the handprints and fingerprints, and another on the kitchen floor for footprints. She covered a few tables with easle paper and let the kids color and play with toys while the parents took turns rounding up their kiddos and getting their hand, foot, or fingerprints to make adorable print art!

And check out the cute print art the art momma's made!

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Spice Painting

We did spice painting today, which I had seen on one of my new favorite blogs, One Inch World.

What an awesome sensory art experience!

I brought out an array of spices (no hot spices obviously), some glue, and thick paper.

He did it two ways. He slopped some glue down first then sprinkled the spices on and smeared it with the brush, AND we also put some glue into bowls, poured the spices in, mixed it all up and painted with the glue and spice mixture.

yummy smells!

Fun stuff!

Smelled wonderful!

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Homemade Cinnamon and Sugar Banana Flavored Cookie Cutter Tortilla Crisps

I make my own Low Carb tortilla chips for myself, BUT using regular tortillas, melted butter, cinnamon/sugar, banana flavoring, and cookie cutters I also make L some very tasty (and fun!) tortilla crisps that are a fairly healthier snack alternative to cookies. The banana flavoring is optional but we are banana lovers in this house and the subtle banana flavoring on these is soo good! You could try other artificial flavorings though!

First I cut my tortillas with the cookie cutters and lay them on a baking sheet.

Then I combine melted butter with a few drops of artificial banana flavoring.

I use a brush to paint the mixture onto the tortillas.

THEN I sprinkle on a cinnamon and sugar mixture.



Bake at 350 until they start browning just a bit and are crispy. Its a fine line between a perfect browning and crispiness to totally burnt to a crisp SO you pretty much have to keep checking after 5 minutes or so.

They are pretty yummy!

They keep well in a ziplock bag or cookie jar.

 

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