tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67033053218691174632024-03-19T04:16:22.210-05:00Life Sprinkled With GlitterA blog with fun crafts and healthy cooking ideas to inspire parents and caregivers!*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-7850105351661642242020-06-10T13:44:00.001-05:002020-06-12T18:45:10.135-05:00Summer Gingerbread House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First of all, It's so good to finally write a post again! I can't believe it's been a few years. I have been pretty busy with my kids these days. Brenden is now 14, Kiki is 11, Garren is about to turn 8 in a few days, and Rowen is 5. </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6703305321869117463" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6703305321869117463" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Kiki and I were looking through pictures the other day and saw a craft we did around halloween last year. With fun halloween candy, chocolate graham crackers, and chocolate icing we made Halloween Gingerbread houses. This is literally one of our FAVORITE craft/activities to do. I'm sure the kids love it the most because of all the CANDY that I normally don't let them have too much of. LOL This got our minds spinning on how we can make summer gingerbread houses. </div>
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We thought it would be fun to make the house look more like a tiki hut and for it to be in a tropical setting.<br />
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Here is a picture of the stuff we bought from Target to make our summer gingerbread houses. The only thing not pictured is goldfish and some cereal we used.</div>
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After you have all of your supplies you have to set up your bases. For our halloween gingerbread houses we just used halloween paper plates but we knew we would want more space to create an island and water so we used cardboard from an amazon box. We cut out squares of cardboard and wrapped them in foil. Then you take your small empty milk carton and hot glue it to the base. The kids all chose their houses to be glued in different spots. </div>
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After your bases are all set you will need to make your "sand" and your "water". To make "sand" you can crush up graham crackers or cereal. This step is fun for kids. Just add whatever you are going to use for the "sand" in a ziplock bag and something tough for the kids to hit the bag and crush the crackers/cereal. We used a mix of Cheerios and Kix cereal because we didn't have a ton of graham crackers. Now, to make your "water", just mix some blue food coloring into your vanilla icing.</div>
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Let the kids decorate their house first. We used graham crackers along with pretzel sticks and we even used cinnamon toast crunch cereal for the roof on some. Get as creative as you want. Then after the house is decorated add some white icing around the base of it to make your land. Sprinkle your "sand" on the icing with a spoon. Then use the blue icing to make the water on the rest of your base.</div>
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Before we went crazy and just decorated the houses, Kiki and I wanted to create palm trees. We thought hard about the easiest way to create these. First, the trunk is the most realistic when using Pirouette wafer cookies. The next step was to make the palm leaves. We experimented with green sour patch kids and green sour streamers. The best was cutting the sour streamers into a leaf shape because we found that the sour patch kids were heavier and it came apart a few times before the icing finally made it all stick together.</div>
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Here are what the palm trees looked like when done. We just used three "leaves" per tree. We used the white icing to stick the leaves to the top of the pirouette wafer cookie. Then we set them in a glass cup to harden a little before adding them to the houses.</div>
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This is how we added the palm tree to the house. We just put some icing on the bottom and up one side of the tree and pushed it against one side of the house. This picture is cool cause you can see how Kiki used pretzel sticks and cinnamon toast crunch to make her house look like a tiki hut.</div>
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After you have the house, sand, water, and palm tree then you have the fun of adding all the candy to decorate your house and island. I just gave each kid a plate with all the different stuff we bought.</div>
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The kids will need more white icing for this step so they can stick candy to their houses.</div>
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Jax and Row decorating their summer gingerbread houses.</div>
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Garren decorating his house. Gummy rings are fun for this cause you can use them as floaties in the water. Also sour patch kids were the perfect size to use as people. Garren was the first to use the sour streamers as towels on the sand, which I thought was a fun idea.</div>
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Kiki made a little dock and a "person" on a chaise lounge sunning. </div>
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We think they all turned out so well that we had to share our craft idea with you. </div>
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We hope you are all enjoying your summer.</div>
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I don't know if any of you have seen these little blind bag packs in the stores. One day we happened upon them in the Dollar Store. I let my 5 and 2 year old boys each get a pack and that is when the obsession started. They are so cute and small. The recommended age is 3 and up, if your child puts toys into their mouth still then these could be a choking hazard. This ended up being a fun thing Rowen gets when we are at the store. They run about $1- $2 dollars a piece and there are SO MANY different trains! Since our collection was growing I wanted to get a case for Rowen to carry them around in. I also wondered if they made special tracks just for these trains. They do have a few different sets that go specifically for these trains BUT I wanted to have more of an open ended toy that Rowen could use his imagination setting up. </div>
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What I came up with has ended up being one of our FAVORITE toys! I have even caught my 8 year old daughter and her friend playing with it! Another awesome thing is all the supplies cost me under $10, excluding the trains. </div>
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The three things you need to start are felt (2 green sheets and 1 blue 8X10), BIG "tongue depressor" wooden craft sticks, and a case to hold it all in. I was going to just use a case I found around the house but I ended up seeing this Thomas the Train tin lunch box case for only $6.99 at Hobby Lobby and then used a 40% off coupon. I call that a score!!!</div>
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Here is Rowen with his new Thomas box and a few of his trains inside.</div>
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The next thing you need to do is get a sharpie and draw train tracks on the wooden craft sticks. I just used another stick to draw my lines.</div>
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With two basic 8X10 green felt sheets it takes about 8 wooden sticks to make a circle.</div>
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Next step is to cut some water out of blue felt and make a bridge out of popsicle sticks. Your water can be cut in any shape you want. For the bridge I used smaller craft sticks but you can use the bigger ones if you want. I just cut the sticks with scissors and used hot glue to stick the bridge together.</div>
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After you hot glue the sticks together just simply paint brown and wait for it to dry.</div>
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This next step was so fun. Rowen and I took a special walk to find some perfect size rocks to add to the scenery. After he picked about 3 or four we took them in to wash the with foamy soap.</div>
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Another simple and fun addition to Rowen's travel train track set is a little pack of dinosaurs we found at the Dollar Store. They also had the option for Safari animals but he wanted the Dinos!</div>
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After completing those few steps above, you are all set to PLAY!!!</div>
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Make sure to make extra track so your child can set it up however they want. They might even want the tracks off of the felt!</div>
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Here is a special close up of our bridge and rocks Rowen picked out. </div>
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He loves setting the dinosaurs on top of the rocks.</div>
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After your child is done playing, just pack it all up in the case and it is ready for next time!</div>
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Since it's just Rowen at home with me on the weekdays these days we have many chances to take his travel train set with us to different places. I had an idea to go let him pick out a set of Thomas Mini's at Target. Then we got a snack and played at a table. He had so much fun lining up all of his trains. We even played a counting game along with his normal pretending.</div>
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Here is one last example of Rowen's set up at the Doctors office. I had a normal check up and Rowen had fun playing while I talked to the Doctor. This would also be a great idea to have on plane trips. </div>
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One other thing I was thinking of doing is adding a few micro machine type cars and on the other side of the train track sticks made them road sticks for cars.</div>
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<br />*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-35508868678655991592016-10-31T09:22:00.001-05:002016-10-31T09:23:16.148-05:00Halloween Keepsake Treat Bags~ 2016 Hand & Footprint Art<div style="text-align: center;">
Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I started a tradition in 2012 with my children where we put their hand and/or footprints on the sack they take trick or treating. If you want to know more about this click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/10/trick-or-treat-sack-and-keepsake.html">HERE</a> to see the past posts and the hand/foot prints from past years.</div>
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This year I kept it a little more simple and did only one print for each kid except for Rowen. He is still so little and the prints are just so cute at this age! </div>
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Here is Rowen in two of his costumes this year.</div>
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Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba and Buzz Lightyear!</div>
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Here are the prints I did for him. I wish I would have done his footprint for Buzz in purple because that is actually the color of the bottom of his foot. Instead I just wrote ANDY in purple.</div>
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Garren's foot print turned out better than I thought it would! </div>
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I just copied his costume of a blue Power Ranger to his footprint!</div>
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Kiki is a police woman this year so I thought it would be fun to just put a police badge in her handprint!</div>
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One of Brenden's costumes is Harry Potter so I got really creative with his LARGE footprint! </div>
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Seriously, just to get an idea of the space this takes up.... he wears size 7 in men!!! </div>
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Why do they grow up so quickly!?</div>
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Lastly, I had to add what Brenden is wearing today for actual Halloween Day.</div>
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He is Josh Dun, the drummer from my FAVORITE band Twenty One Pilots!</div>
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Notice the sharpie O gage on his ear! LOL</div>
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Here is full body! Brenden is wearing his Skeleton hoodie just like Josh and Tyler wear!</div>
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And don't forget the drum sticks!</div>
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To his bag, I will probably add his handprint in red and paint the Twenty One Pilots logo in the center.</div>
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Well, I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!!!</div>
*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-54203346606642090912016-10-29T15:43:00.000-05:002016-10-30T10:27:57.209-05:00Cake Decorating Party- Dollar Store Supplies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My daughter Kiki LOVES to cook! She is always saying that she wants to have her own bakery when she grows up. Last year we made a Sweet Shop in our basement! If you want to see it click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2015/10/diy-sweet-shopparty-ideaspart-1.html">HERE</a>! The amazing thing is we STILL have this up in our basement a year later! </div>
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I really didn't want to throw a HUGE party again. I wanted to just go somewhere and have them do all of the work. However, once I saw how much it would cost, I decided to have it at our house. </div>
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After talking it over with my husband and Kiki we decided that a cake decorating party would be the easiest. We had her pick 5 close friends so they could all fit comfortably around the dining room table. </div>
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The first thing to consider when having a cake decorating party was how to prepare the cakes. We decided it would be best if the cakes were made before hand and the girls would just have fun decorating them during the party. I searched and searched for the best size cake pans. I didn't want to spend a lot of money and then have something I wouldn't use later. We finally found these ceramic ramekins at World Market that were about 5 inches in diameter. They only cost about 2 dollars each. As you can see in the picture below we also bought a few smaller ramekins to see if we wanted a smaller cake layer on top. I will tell you now it was easiest to have just two 5in circle cakes. It made it easier to put the icing on since that is the trickiest part. </div>
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One cake box mix filled all 6 of these ramekins. So if you were just going with the 5in ramekins, you might get away with filling 5 with one box of cake mix.</div>
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What we did, starting about a week or two before Kiki's party, was bake a bunch of batches of cakes one at a time. We would make a batch, cut the tops off to make them flat, flash freeze them on a cookie sheet, and then store them in a ziplock bag in the freezer until the day of the party. It would be easier to choose one type of cake but we wanted the girls to have the option to choose between white and chocolate so we had to bake a lot of cakes! I think all together, pictured below is two boxes of chocolate cake and three boxes of white. The great thing is you can find box cake mix at the dollar store so it didn't cost us much it just took a lot of time! </div>
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The morning of the party we pulled all of the cakes out of the freezer and placed them on parchment paper to defrost. It only takes about 2 hours!</div>
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Next is the fun part! I let Kiki pick out tons of candy that she thought would be good to decorate the cakes with. A good place to pick out candy is the dollar store because your kids can go crazy and it won't cost you a fortune! I also found theses small plastic bowls at the dollar store, 12 for $1. These were perfect because the girls could pass them around the table.</div>
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I got this cute 3 tier serving platter from IKEA. The 12 little bowls fit perfectly on the plates.</div>
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You can also just place the little bowls around the table.</div>
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One of my favorite things to do when decorating for a birthday is hanging regular balloons from the ceiling with curling ribbon. It's so much cheaper and better than dealing with helium!</div>
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The other goodies we got for the party were also all from the dollar store! They had these cute aprons, the "silver" plates, and also a spatula/spreader. We got one per person and they got to take them home after the party as favors along with their yummy cake!</div>
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Here is another look at the table with Kiki's donut birthday cake on the corner.</div>
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We also scored because we found these pastry bags with different decorating tips for icing at the Dollar store! Seriously, they have EVERYTHING there!</div>
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We set it up with every color of the rainbow. Each pastry bag held one tub of icing. We put three colors of icing on one end of the table and three at the other end.</div>
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When all the girls arrived we let them pick out two white cakes, two chocolate cakes or one white and one chocolate cake. Then, we let them choose a whole tub of either chocolate or vanilla icing. One tub was the perfect amount of icing for the center and then to cover the whole cake. </div>
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FYI, You can also get tubs of icing from the dollar store!</div>
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I told the girls before they started that they couldn't mess up their cakes! If they felt they didn't like something just add more icing and candy! </div>
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At one point, a little piece of the cake fell off of one of the girls cakes. No problem at all, we decided to make a pink and purple waterfall out of that part! </div>
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It was all about having fun, not about a perfect end product!</div>
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Everyone had a blast!</div>
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Here are my little chefs having fun decorating their cakes!</div>
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The birthday girl got to wear this cute chef hat to match her apron!</div>
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Since Garren was the only sibling present at the party, we set him up at his own little table right by the girls! He loved being a part of the fun!</div>
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As you can see here, this type of party can even be for younger children. My son is 4 and he did a wonderful job decorating his cake with little help.</div>
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Another thing we found at Target was small piñatas, one for each girl. They had fun breaking their own personal piñata open. Garren got sad because he wanted to brake one also so I found some extra candy and duct taped one back together. He didn't know the difference!</div>
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Here is Kiki's end product! </div>
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What a great way to end your birthday, on a SUGAR HIGH! </div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-67793455428724051622016-10-23T07:37:00.000-05:002016-10-23T11:47:02.315-05:00Kid Friendly Mini Quiche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wanted to make a quiche for dinner one night and when I went to the store they were out of pie crust so I just picked up some Crescent rolls instead. I have to admit, I was a little frustrated about this but it ended up being a meal my kids RAVED over! I made these veggie quiche but the great thing about this is you can make a bunch of different flavors because they are mini. </div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">2 packs of refrigerated Crescent rolls</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">2/3 cup half and half </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">about 1 cup shredded cheese</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">about 2-3 cups of filling for your quiche (some ideas I have would be sweet potato, spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, chopped up ham, bacon, bell peppers, tomatoes, etc.)</li>
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First, I buttered my muffin tins. Then, I opened the crescent roll packages. There are 8 triangles of dough in each package. I ripped the triangles in half and pressed it to the bottom of the tin. You will have a little dough leftover so what I did was add more where I thought I needed it.</div>
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I love the combination of sweet potato and broccoli so I steamed the veggies and then cut them up into little chunks. I think the next time I make this I will add bacon. My family LOVES bacon!</div>
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Add a little of your ingredients to each section in your muffin tin. Just try not to let the stuff stick up to high over the top of the tin.</div>
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After your eggs are well blended pour a little in each section in your muffin tin. Make sure you don't fill it all the way to the top because the eggs will rise. </div>
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Then, sprinkle shredded cheese on top.</div>
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Put in the oven and cook for about 20 minutes.</div>
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For dinner I added some fresh fruit to each plate.</div>
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The crescent rolls made for a perfect crust!!!</div>
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The other great thing about these is you can freeze the leftovers and pull them out for an easy and quick breakfast.</div>
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Yummy!</div>
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Oh My, It has been a LONG time since I last posted! I can't believe Summer is gone and Fall is here! I got my pumpkin Decor up early! I LOVE pumpkin season and all crafts that have to do with them! I saw this awesome Pin on Pinterest of a Man Eating Plant using a craft pumpkin for the head, from Shirley at Eden Makers. Below is the picture of her Man Eating Plant, if you click on the picture below it will take you to her blog and post!</div>
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I absolutely LOVED this idea! My husband and I have been adding plants and working on the front landscape so I thought this would be perfect! It's and plant AND halloween decor at the same time! </div>
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What's best is you hardly need any supplies to make this!</div>
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WHAT YOU NEED:</div>
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A large branch</div>
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one carvable craft pumpkin</div>
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a bunch of silk leaves</div>
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green spray paint</div>
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hot glue or gorilla glue</div>
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Here is a few pictures of the branches we chose for this project. I actually made two, one for me and one for my Mom. </div>
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Cut all the large branches off the main body and leave a few small one sticking out.</div>
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After you have your branch, its time to cut your craft pumpkin.</div>
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Here is the side view to show you the way the mouth goes! Just get creative, it doesn't need to be exactly like mine. You can use a pumpkin carving knife to do this or I just used a regular small knife (just be careful if you do it this way). </div>
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I wanted to use two different colors of green spray paint for this project. I thought it added to the spookiness of the plant. I spray painted the inside of the mouth light green and the outside darker green. I also used this same dark green spray paint to paint the main large branch. </div>
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For my leaves, I found some awesome halloween leaves for 70% off at a craft store. I wanted the leaves to match the pumpkin head so I spray painted the tops of the leaves with dark green and the backs of the leaves with light green. I tried to do it very lightly so I wouldn't cover all the cool detail of the leaves. Below shows the process of painting the leaves.</div>
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This next step is the hardest part of the project. On Shirley's blog she just uses hot glue. I found that I was standing there FOREVER waiting for the glue to dry and trying to get it to hold. </div>
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Next time I might use a different glue, like Gorilla glue etc.</div>
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We ended up adding some tape to get it to hold a little better and then I spray painted over that.</div>
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I will say, I was still nervous about it holding so I just had my husband add a few nails into it with the nail gun and then I felt that it was VERY sturdy! </div>
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Now on Shirley's blog she has a great idea to put the stick into a pot and make it stay with spray foam insulation. If you end up doing it this way, I will tell you that spray foam insulation is very light weight. You will need to add a lot of weight to your pot, before adding the insulation, to be able to hold the weight of your large branch. I thought it was just easier to make sure I had enough straight branch at the bottom to stick into a large potted flower that we already had by our door. I think it also makes it look more realistic when it's sticking out of a pot with a real plant in it.</div>
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Below is a picture from Shirley's blog of the spray foam insulation holding the branch in the pot.</div>
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Once you have your branch in a pot, hot glue the silk leaves to the smaller branches as you think it looks good. Here is a picture of my finished Man Eating Plant by our front door. He is ready to greet our guests! hehe</div>
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A few more cool views of the hungry plant!</div>
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"Feed me Seymour"- Little Shop Of Horrors</div>
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Here are my little boys reactions to seeing the plant by the front door. </div>
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Rowen couldn't believe it and Garren was ready to fight!</div>
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I hope you all have a great October and a fun & SpOoKy Halloween!</div>
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When we first bought our house, it was all move in ready with new cabinets and appliances. It even had new granite and tile in the Kitchen and all the bathrooms. However, everything was in a neutral palatte and ALL the walls were the same color beige!!! To me everything felt so dark and I felt like I couldn't even enjoy the nice granite because it all just blended in.</div>
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Here is how it looked before...Beige walls, beige tile, beige granite, and brown wood cabinets!</div>
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Sorry about the mess on top of my cabinets. We have a TON of lunch boxes! lol<br />
This corner, to me, was always so dark.</div>
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The first thing I did was paint the wall a light grey color by Behr called Mineral. I think light paint helps to bring light into a room. I already felt better with this change but really it was the cabinets that take up most of the wall space in the kitchen so I knew what I needed to do next.</div>
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There was no way we were going to replace the new cabinets that were in the kitchen, they just needed a facelift. First, the cabinets needed to be primed. Obviously you can't just paint on top of the glossy finish of the cabinets because the paint won't hold. We used Zinsser Cover Stain Primer before we painted to cabinets with Behr white paint. A little goes a long way with this primer. </div>
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The great part about this project is I got my husband on board so I only had to do half the work. My husband's parents have a paint sprayer so he took off all the doors and I only had to stain and paint the actual frame of the cabinets. I used a mini roller and it went by a lot quicker than just using a hand brush for it all.</div>
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My husband set up a makeshift paint room in our garage by taping up some plastic drop cloths to the ceiling and also laying them on the ground. We used brick pavers under each cabinet door so they weren't touching the ground.</div>
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Here is a picture from me doing a little painting. I don't know how I did it with the kids around but one awesome tip I heard from a guy at Home Depot was that you can wrap up your brush in a plastic bag and it will keep it wet for at least a day. </div>
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I used this tip A LOT!!!</div>
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Here is what it looked like after we finished painting this one set of the cabinets. </div>
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We also added handles to the cabinets which we had been using without up until this point. </div>
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We searched all over for a good deal on handles since we needed so many and actually found the best price for the style we wanted at Target.</div>
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After we finished the one side we moved over to the other side of the kitchen which was A LOT more work. Here is a picture of some of the process. I tried to pick sections to work on to make it easier on myself. So I started with the top cabinets and then moved to the bottom. This process was so awesome because it also gave me the chance to clean out every cabinet and get rid of stuff we never use! </div>
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In this next picture we almost have all the cabinet doors back on and we are starting to get the handles put on.</div>
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You can just tell how much brighter it looks already!</div>
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Since we were doing all of these updates to the kitchen, we also decided to update the faucet. </div>
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After shopping around, we found that we really liked the faucets from Ikea but they were almost double the price of this one from Home Depot. We went with cost effective and we are very happy with it.</div>
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Along with painting, we also added a fun accent on the sides of the cabinets by the kitchen window. </div>
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We got these cute glass jars from Ikea for a few dollars each. I removed the lids. Then we screwed in two hooks on each side of the cabinets and hung the jars.</div>
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We hung three jars and the last hook I use to hang my hand towel. </div>
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All you have to do is add some potting soil and fresh herbs to the jars and there you have it.</div>
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The herbs held up well during the warmer months but during the winter it was harder to keep them alive since there wasn't as much sun. </div>
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During the winter we changed out the herbs (pictured on the left) for a succulent (pictured on the right). No matter what you have planted in the jars, they look beautiful and add life to your kitchen.</div>
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The final touch to the kitchen, which I have wanted for years, is under cabinet lighting. This can get really expensive depending on what lighting you choose. We found this 4 pack of LED lighting strips for only $19.99 at Ikea!! We bought two packs and that covered all of our cabinets. </div>
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You can see below that it really brings your attention to the tile and helps the counter pop too! A huge difference from when everything was all beige!!!!</div>
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We leave these lights on all the time so my favorite time to take in my kitchen is at night where these are the only lights on.</div>
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Now I am going to move on to our breakfast bar remodel. </div>
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When we bought this house we KNEW we had to do something with this space. This tiny granite counter is where we have most of our meals. Most of the time Jason or I would have to stand at the table to be able to eat with the whole family.</div>
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The first step in changing the breakfast bar had to do with changing the window. If we wanted to bring the table to the wall we had to get a shorter window since the original one went almost to the floor.</div>
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Next, we went to Ikea to buy cabinets so I could have more storage. They were phasing out their 12 inch cabinets and all they had left were wall not floor. Jason had to build a frame for the cabinets to sit on. Then he screwed them down.</div>
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This picture shows just how small the table top used to be!</div>
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Then Jason ripped out the granite.</div>
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We found and amazing deal on solid oak counter top at Ikea! We bought two different sizes. The long one is 8 feet. Jason cut them to fit exactly how we wanted them and just had to glue one seam. He clamped them together to dry.</div>
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After the glue dried he sanded the top a little.</div>
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He did such a great job, you literally can't even see the seam!</div>
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We decided that we didn't like the look of the light wood so we stained it.</div>
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Look at this baby already enjoying the new cabinets. I put some of his toys in this first one.</div>
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Instead of spending a whole bunch of money on buying 6 new bar stools, we made the choice to just purchase 2 more of the same stools we already had. These are not my favorite because they don't clean well at all and they are WHITE!!!! However, they are so comfortable, they spin, and they go up and down which is good for little kids. </div>
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Now there is a spot for everyone in the family at the breakfast bar!</div>
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You can also see all of the frame work my husband custom made to fit the space around the window and doorway.</div>
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I feel we brought this kitchen to life with just a few changes!</div>
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This corner used to be so dark, but now with the painted cabinets and under cabinet lighting, it looks like a completely different kitchen! </div>
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What an amazing transformation! I really feel just a little paint and lighting has helped this California girl not feel so homesick during the winter months. It helps to bring as much light into your home when you are cooped up!</div>
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One of my families favorite dinners is burgers and fries. Who doesn't love a good burger? What I have tried to do here is add the nutrition to this meal while still keeping the yummy flavor. This way you get to eat a burger and also eat a ton of veggies in the process.</div>
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The trick here is to blend a whatever veggies you have on hand in your food processor/blender. If you have picky eaters, you will want to blend your veggies down very fine. This way they won't even be noticeable.</div>
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After blending up your veggies, you simply mix all for your ingredients in a big bowl.</div>
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Here is what I use to make my burgers:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">1 lb ground beef</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1 to 1 1/2 cups of blended up veggies</li>
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I like to form my burgers into smaller patties. This way they are perfect size for kids. My family eats them as sliders by cutting up mini whole wheat bagels or rolls. </div>
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As you can see below, there are a few chunks of veggies noticeable in my patties. I actually prefer it this way. However, if you make sure you blend your veggies well, no one will be able to notice anything but meat. These patties below have Zucchini, Eggplant, Carrots, Onion, and Celery in them!</div>
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Here is Brenden about to eat his slider.</div>
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Here is the way I serve my baby. His burger cut up in chunks.</div>
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I'de like to encourage you to try to add some ground veggies to one of your families favorite recipes. If the recipe calls for ground meat... just try to add about 1/2 to 1 cup of blended raw veggies while you are cooking up the meat. I have told people that I like to use veggies that my kids normally won't just eat on their own. My kids normally don't eat spinach raw so that is one of my favs to add. It can be fresh or frozen! Give it a try and I would love to hear how it goes. Please leave me a comment.</div>
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After making these burgers MANY times since I posted about this I have added a few ingredients which make these burgers AMAZING! When blending up your veggies add 2 or 3 dill pickle spears. Also, I add about 1/4 cup of sliced almonds that I blend with the veggies.</div>
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I make these burgers into slider size and use dinner rolls for the buns. </div>
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My sweet baby boy turns ONE today! It is said so much but seriously our babies grow up so quickly. It just seems like yesterday I was sitting in my rocker watching him sleep under the lights of the Christmas Tree. </div>
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I soaked up any chance he would sleep in my lap because I knew how fast that stage would come and go.</div>
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I never wanted to have one of my babies have their birthday in the same month as Christmas but I have learned to just embrace it. </div>
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One awesome idea I got from a friend is to have a special "Birthday Tree" for your December baby. That way they can have something special just for them. You have it decorated with their own special ornaments and on their birthday you put their presents under their tree. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I also themed Rowen's cake smash pictures around Christmas. I had a cute 5 inch cake made in red and green and then I made this fun Christmas tree topper for his cake. These toppers are so fun and easy to make. </span></div>
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I made a number 1 for Garren's first birthday and Cake Smash photo shoot. </div>
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Cut it to the shape you want it. Either you can do a number or a shape of something to go with your theme. I then used my colored pencils to draw a one in the christmas tree.</div>
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I hot glued two popsicle sticks in between the paper. </div>
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Then, I sealed the whole thing with Mod Podge. I used sparkle Mod Podge to give it a glittery finish. Using Mod Podge also helps to seal the paper so it can be easily wiped up if you want to save the topper.</div>
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Rowen loved his cake!</div>
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Here's a little 30 second video of the Cake Smash that my husband put together. </div>
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Enjoy the cuteness!</div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-73417574318295610122015-10-28T10:16:00.000-05:002015-10-28T10:31:11.416-05:00DIY Sweet Shop Party Ideas~Part 2<div style="text-align: center;">
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I am not sponsored by Mod Podge but I should be! LOL<br />
I LOVE all of their products and I use something of theirs in almost every project I do. Because of this Sweet Shop party I got to use Collage Clay for the first time. It really was the decretive touch that made a lot of these sweet shop treats look so realistic. I talked about it a little in <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2015/10/diy-sweet-shopparty-ideaspart-1.html">part one</a> of this blog post since I used it on the cinnamon rolls.<br />
It was the finishing touch to this first project I am going to tell you about.<br />
I have to say the strawberry creme pie was one of my favorite projects and it was also one of the most played with during the party.<br />
First step to making it was the fun for the whole family. I needed a pie tin and box so I went to Sams Club and bought a pumpkin pie. I like the pies from Sams Club or Costco because they are larger than normal pies. Once I FORCED my family to eat the pie, I cleaned the tin and then rubbed it with cooking oil. Fill the tin 3/4th of the way with spray foam insulation. </div>
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It will expand so you want to make sure you leave some room.</div>
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After the spray foam insulation is dry you should be able to scrape it out of the pie tin. The cooking oil should have helped it not to stick.<br />
I squirted two different colors of pink acrylic paint to the top of the pie and then Kiki painted the top of it.</div>
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After Kiki finished painting the top and it dried, I used a knife and cut the circle into 8 pie pieces.</div>
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I hot glued tan felt to the bottom of each piece of pie to make it look like it had crust.</div>
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Now here comes the finishing touch of Mod Podge Collage Clay. I used the star tip for this process.</div>
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I added a line of icing all around the edge of the pie. I also lined the bottom of the pie tin with a piece of purple paper that had the sweet shop logo on it. I did this because I couldn't clean up the bottom well enough after filling it with spray foam insulation. I used regular Mod Podge to glue and seal the paper down. In the picture below, I just added the Mod Podge so you can see it isn't dry yet.</div>
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Lastly, I wanted to add a finishing touch to the top of each piece of pie. We ended up using real after dinner mints but you can use any trinket, bead, or jewel you have laying around the house. </div>
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I simply squirted a little Collage Clay like icing and the put three mints in it.</div>
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I painted the box and added the sweet shop logo to it.</div>
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You can tell why this was one of the favorite treats to play with. The girls loved opening the box and serving out pieces of pie with a spatula.</div>
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Moving onto how I made the cupcakes, I had this next project ready along with the pie tin for the strawberry creme pie. The reason for this is because once you open and start using a can of spray foam insulation, you will have to throw it away after about 30 minutes because the foam drys in the straw.</div>
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I filled 2 muffin tins with cupcake liners and put a small rock in the bottom of each liner. Then I sprayed the insulation foam over each rock. Like the pie tin I filled the each cupcake liner about 3/4th of the way full. Remember it with expand just like it would when you bake a cupcake.</div>
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I will tell you, the rock is very important because if you don't add them, the cupcakes with be top heavy.</div>
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With 24 Cupcakes we split them up into 3 groups of 8 and made 3 different kinds of cupcakes. Pictured below on the left, we left some as the color of the insulation foam so they were vanilla cupcakes and we used pink Collage Clay and topped it with a pom pom ball. We painted some pink like the color of the strawberry creme pie and topped it with white Collage Clay and a jewel. Then for chocolate cupcakes we painted the foam brown and after it was dry we painted regular Mod Podge over it to give it a little shine. Then topped it off with white Collage Clay and a red pom pom for a cherry! </div>
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The muffin tins we used to display the cupcakes came from the dollar store!</div>
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The next little project was to make little clipboards for the kids to be able to take orders. I wanted them to be small enough to fit the pocket in the front of the apron. </div>
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I cut four rectangle piece from the lid of a box.</div>
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Then Kiki and I ripped up pieces of colorful paper and Mod Podged them to fully cover each piece of cardboard.</div>
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Here they are drying after I painted a coat of regular Mod Podge over top of them.</div>
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I found some cute magnetic clips from the dollar section at Target.</div>
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I simply clipped some lined paper to each piece of cardboard and there you have it! </div>
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Cute little mini clipboards for taking orders!</div>
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I wanted to show you how perfect the size clipboard is for the apron pocket, pictured below. </div>
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Here is an action shot from Kiki's party where she was taking her friends order.</div>
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The next thing I did was decorate the walls to make it look more like a sweet shop instead of a beige basement. I created this fun menu and used hearts instead of actual money amounts. This leaves it up to their imagination for buying and selling. I also wanted it to look like there was candy on the wall so I made a fake shelf and colored candy jars that I found as free printables online. I just searched "candy jars coloring page".</div>
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I stapled a pink Dollar Store table cloth to the wall. Then I made an awning out of stripped wrapping paper. I stapled the menu and candy shelf on the wall.</div>
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I still felt like I needed more decoration to the room so I made another fake shelf with lollipops in vases for the wall on the other side of the menu. I added another table cloth to the wall which happened to match the Sweet Shop awning fabric that Kiki picked out. It was priced under a dollar from Walmart. I must tell you, I love cheap table cloths! It is the best way to change the color in a room instantly and for just a few bucks! </div>
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Then we added white christmas lights around the top of the room.</div>
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I wanted to make sure the kids had lots of fake treats to play with but also REAL treats to eat! We stocked the shop with lollipops. The cute pink vase was from the Dollar Store!</div>
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I made this cute display for real cookies and candy out of two cake plates from the Dollar Store and a glass candlestick hot glued in the middle.</div>
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We had our register filled with fake money, paper and coins, from the Dollar Store.</div>
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I found little purses 3 for a dollar at the Dollar Store and I puffy Painted every girls name to the front of them. We added money from the register to each girls purse so they would have some to buy things with in the sweet shop. Putting the names on the purses was such a good idea because I told the girls when they bought real candy that if they didn't want to eat it all to keep it in their purse and they could take it home with them! These purses with a little candy in them were their party favors.</div>
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Inside the shop we stocked it up with Dollar Store plastic bowls and plates which I Mod Podged the logo to. There was also spatulas, forks, spoons, and napkins all also from the Dollar Store!</div>
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Kiki's jelly bean machine was a fun touch to the shop. </div>
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There was enough treats to go around. I can't even believe there was candy still left over after the party was done!</div>
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This post is part 2 of the DIY Sweet Shop Party Ideas, click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2015/10/diy-sweet-shopparty-ideaspart-1.html">HERE</a> to see part 1.</div>
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Every year my daughter Kiki has BIG plans for her birthday parties! The past two years I have made things out of cardboard in our basement. For her 5th birthday I made a <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2013/10/princess-cardboard-castle.html">Princess Castle</a> and for her 6th birthday I made a <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2014/10/jungle-theme-party-cardboard-cave.html">HUGE Cave</a>! She LOVES candy so this year she decided she wanted a sweet shop in the basement. I had ideas to make her a sweet shop out of cardboard kind of like what was made over at Fighting Against What Is. If you want to see the blog post about their party just click the photo below.</div>
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Once I really started thinking about it I realized I wanted something that would be more permanent. The idea behind this would be that we could keep the small stand together after the party was over and the kids can use it for a stand when they want to sell things on the street, like Lemonade.</div>
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I took a look on Craigslist and found this small TV stand. I ripped the cardboard backing off of it and let Kiki paint it white with paint we already had. We also spray painted the shelves pink. </div>
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After we got it all painted we took it downstairs to start placing everything the way we wanted. I wanted to make it a larger store so we also used this 6 square shelf that we already had. I thought it would be fun to have the kitchen behind the counter so the kids can pretend to bake along with selling their treats.</div>
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The next step was to add the awning onto both the TV stand and shelf. We use PVC because it's so cheap and easy to work with. I can't give you exact amounts of how much PVC to buy because you will have to make your awning to fit whatever shelf you are using. For the PVC fittings you will need 4 elbows, 2 Wye connectors, and 2 Tee connectors. After you have fitted your awning, spray paint it whatever color you desire. Then just simply screw the PVC into your shelf after the paint drys.</div>
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The next step in creating the Sweet Shop was coming up with a logo. I found this Sweet Shop design online and just printed it out the size I desired and painted with puffy paint over top of it. I added "Kiki's" above the word sweet on each print out and there you have it! A simple way to have your logo all over the shop. </div>
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First place I added the logo was on the front of the awning fabric. Kiki chose this pretty pink fabric at the craft store and I cut it to fit each shelf. I folded over one side and added a line of No Sew glue to make a loop that the PVC could fit through. Then I used the No Sew to glue the paper logo to the fabric and sealed it over top with sparkle Mod Podge.</div>
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I filled the front of the TV stand with fun little jars from the Dollar store and Michael's craft store. The jars all cost around a dollar each. You can also see in the photo below, all of the fun treats we made each on their own shelf. I will go into detail on how I made most of them. </div>
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First treat we started making took the most time but turned out so cute and well worth it!</div>
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First step in making the felt doughnuts is getting the felt. I made a dozen doughnuts 4 chocolate, 4 vanilla, and 4 strawberry. You only need one piece of felt per icing color. For the actual doughnuts it took me 8 piece of tan felt. You can see below that I made a template for the doughnut circle and then for the icing. I traced them on the felt and cut them all out.</div>
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Next step I did was to tack the icing down to one piece of the felt doughnut circles. I used different colors of embroidery floss to represent sprinkles on the icing. </div>
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The next step would be to sew or hand stitch the outer circle edge of the doughnut circles together. You make sure you have the icing facing in touching the other plain doughnut circle. Once the whole circle edge is sewn you flip it around to now show the icing. I don't have pictures of this step because I am fortunate to have an awesome mother in law who sewed these up for me!!! Then I stuffed them and as shown below, I hand stitched the middle circle shut.</div>
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The finished product turned out so awesome!</div>
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For the party, we displayed the doughnuts on platters from the Dollar Store that I simply hot glued a glass candlestick to. </div>
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Next thing I made was the felt cinnamon rolls. These were so easy to make! I just bought dark and light brown felt. I cut long 1 inch strips. I rolled two strips together and then when I got to the end I used hot glue to make the end pieces stick down. You can keep adding more felt until your desired cinnamon roll size.</div>
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To make them look more like cinnamon rolls I pushed up a little in the center from the bottom.</div>
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They fit perfectly in an old strawberry container. The only thing is I had to cover up the label.</div>
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I used sparkle Mod Podge to glue and seal the sweet shop logo over the strawberry label.</div>
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The finishing touch on the cinnamon rolls is the icing! To do this I used white Mod Podge Collage Clay!</div>
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This stuff is so fun to use! It comes in what looks like a pastry bag and it even comes with three different tips for decorating.</div>
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Here is what it looks like after I squeezed the Collage Clay on top. It drys hard after 24 hours.</div>
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Next project I made was the aprons for the workers and waitresses in the sweet shop. I found these cute aprons in the dollar store that say Chef on them. </div>
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I simply glued a piece of felt over the word chef with No Sew.</div>
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Then I used sparkle Mod Podge to glue and seal the paper logo to the felt square.</div>
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I like using Sparkle Mod Podge because of the glittery finish it puts over the logo. </div>
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Here is Kiki wearing the cute apron and serving up some cupcakes.</div>
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The next project we did was to make milkshakes. I got these 6 plastic glasses for a dollar and 4 small bath sponges for a dollar at the Dollar Store.</div>
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Kiki chose to paint the inside of the glasses purple.</div>
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I used hot glue to glue a straw into the bottom of each glass after the paint dried.</div>
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Lastly, I hot glued one bath sponge into the top of each glass.</div>
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I hope you enjoyed these Sweet Shop party Ideas so far. </div>
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I have so many ideas that I had to break this up into two posts.</div>
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Click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2015/10/diy-sweet-shop-party-ideaspart-2.html">HERE</a> for part 2!</div>
*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-54887036038368830122015-10-21T07:08:00.000-05:002015-10-21T20:05:05.365-05:00Trick Or Treat Sack & Keepsake ideas (2014 & 2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 2012 I came up with the idea to make each of my children a Halloween treat sack and to decorate it over the years with hand and footprint art! This is such a fun idea that can be used over the years and then saved as a special Keepsake!</div>
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I like to post what I have done with their hand and foot print each year to help people get ideas for their own! Here are my kids prints from last year, 2014. I will first say that every year we have at least two costumes because the kids love dressing up all through the year and there are tons of events we go to around this holiday. If you only have one costume for the year but want to do both hand and footprints on your child's sack just choose a fun halloween print. I post a few of those ideas in my first post.</div>
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Kiki was Elsa so to keep it simple I painted her foot light blue and added white glitter to the paint before it dried! I even added a little glitter mod podge over that to help seal the glitter! Another idea is paint the main logo of the character on the print like I did for both of Garren's costumes last year. </div>
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For Brenden's hand print I literally tried to copy the look of the glove he was wearing as a swamp monster.</div>
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For this year, 2015, I had so much fun with these prints! Here is Garren in his Thor costume! If you can't tell, the costume is HUGE so I just rolled it up. I like to buy big so they can wear it for years! LOL</div>
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For his Thor print I just painted the hammer over his silver handprint. Now I don't really know what his second costume will be but he is a little obsessed with Hulk lately and always dresses up like him so I just did that for his footprint! I am not very happy with how his actual footprint turned out but I love the "Hulk Smash" idea!</div>
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Brenden is a little tricky for me this year. He is really into Beyblades so he wanted to go as Gingka the main Beyblader guy on the show. If you don't know what a Beyblade is, it's kind of like a top that spins really fast! He is holding one in his hand in the picture below.</div>
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For his beyblade handprint I used the same concept as the Thor handprint above and just tried to paint a simple Beyblade in his hand. It's not the best but hey I tried! Brenden's second costume is Jengo Fett so I found a simple drawing of the helmet and just tried to copy the design into his silver foot print. I have to say his Jengo Fett footprint turned out way better than I thought it would! Im so happy with it! </div>
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I forgot to mention I used black puffy paint for all of the writing and the detail! </div>
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My kiki girl chose to be Ariel. I had so much fun with her mermaid print adding on the tail and the head. Kiki is also going as a Vampire so I just kind of made a face out of her handprint!</div>
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My FAVORITE year on the Halloween sack is their first Halloween! I love how little the prints are! My sweet baby Rowen is 10 months now and he is going as Robin. This is a family tradition. I have picture of my other two boys in this same costume. This Batman Costume was also a hand me down from Kiki because she went as Batman when she was 3 years old. </div>
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Here are my sweet baby's first prints. I held up the small paint container to give you a reference to the size. I love this witch print! I think all of my kids have this on their bag from a previous year. </div>
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I hope these give you ideas to get you inspired to start a Halloween sack for your own kids even if they are older! Brenden was 5 years old when I started his sack! If you want to read my first post on this to see how I started it and to see more ideas click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/10/trick-or-treat-sack-and-keepsake.html">HERE</a>! If you need help coming up with a hand or foot print of a specific costume, comment below! I would love to help!</div>
*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-74741489830162409012015-08-06T22:37:00.000-05:002015-08-06T22:37:03.861-05:00First Day of School Teacher Gift Idea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every year it seems that summer goes by so quickly!</div>
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I have been having so much fun having all four of my babies home with me all day!</div>
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My favorite part about summer is not having to wake anyone up and rush out the door!</div>
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Here is the most recent family picture we had taken on a HOT summer day in the end of June 2015.</div>
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I guess time flies when you are VERY busy....so no wonder I don't know where the time is going. These guys always have me on my toes! </div>
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Since school starts NEXT WEEK for us here in Kansas I figured I should get on this first day present thing!</div>
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This year we decided to do a different first day of school gift for the kids teachers.</div>
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Normally I buy Apple foam soap from Bath & Body Works. I trace my child's hand on a sheet of colored card stock and write, "Let me know if you need a HAND!" </div>
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I still love this idea but since my son has a Male teacher this year I figured we needed to change it up a bit.</div>
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I looked up ideas of presents to teachers and one was treats so I took my kids to Trader Joe's and they picked out a good treat/snack for their new teacher.</div>
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This saying on the brownie bites could go for any package SWEET treat your child chooses. </div>
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I still wanted to trace their hand and add the "let us know if you need a HAND" but we added "Let's make this a SWEET year!"</div>
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My daughter chose Powerberry trek mix for her teacher, which is a healthier type of treat.</div>
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Because of the nuts in it we wrote, "I'm NUTS about having you as my teacher this year!"</div>
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The other idea I had that I really wanted to do was based off of something I saw on Haley's Daily Blog(click on the picture below to see her post). She blogged about an amazon printable for a gift card. This was more for the end of the year so I was just going to change it up and write, "Let's have an Amaz'on year!" or "Here's to an Amaz'on year!"</div>
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Hope these ideas help spark something fun for you to put together for your child's teacher.</div>
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They deserve it!</div>
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Here's to a great school year 2015/2016!</div>
*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-62609509656895579982015-05-20T15:22:00.000-05:002015-05-20T15:53:14.315-05:00Behavior Coin Chart: Toddler In Action<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, it's that time again! I am making my third Coin Chart! </div>
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I decided to revisit the topic and do a post on why we are doing the Coin Chart system with our 2 year old son Garren and how it is helping. </div>
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Having four children is so much fun. There is always something going on! On the other hand, since there is always so much to do, I feel a lot of times I can't focus on the positives and just get stuck on dealing with the negative. It's so tough remembering to acknowledge when your child says "please" when the next minute they are yelling "shut up". </div>
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The other situation I have been dealing with this time around is having older siblings who also have to deal with the behaviors of their toddler brother. I have to constantly remind them that he is still little and learning how to behave while at the same time listening to their feelings on the matter and not letting Garren get away with negative behaviors toward them. They have been feeling like Garren never really gets punished for hitting them or throwing things at them. </div>
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Also, my older two children earn an allowance and can save up to buy the toys they want. This makes it easy when going to the store. If they want something and have the money, they can buy it. I hardly ever have fights with them about buying things that they want. However, Garren has now hit the age where he wants to go look at the toy section and ALWAYS wants to take something home with him! He has no way of earning money himself so I'm at a loss with helping him understand that he can't just get a toy whenever he wants. </div>
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How can I help my toddler understand that he can earn the toys or activities he really wants to do, put more focus on the positive behaviors he is showing, AND help all of my children have more positive interactions with each other on a day to day basis?!? </div>
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One simple answer came to mind.......this behavior coin chart!!!</div>
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I found the old chart that both of my other kids have used and covered the lower half, under the coin pockets, with a blank white sheet of paper. Garren got to look at his older siblings coins and see if he wanted any of them before we made new ones. He chose three of Brenden's old coins: Spiderman, Hulk, and Buzz. We then made three new coins from some of his favorite characters: Avengers, Batman, and Big Hero 6. </div>
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EVERY TIME I start this system out, I wonder if my child will understand it easily. They always seem to catch on after a day or two. I have to say it has only been a week and this has immensely helped everyones interactions with Garren! The main reason I did this post is to give you specific examples of how we are using the chart to help Garren, a toddler!<br />
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First area this really helped was with Garren's language. He had been saying "shut up" ALL THE TIME! We have even considered washing his mouth out!! The first time he lost a coin was because he said this word... I said "ah oh, we don't talk like that. You are going to need to go get me a coin from your chart." He stopped what he was doing and ran and got me a coin. When he gave it to me I was sure to say, "Even though you lost this coin you can always earn it back! I know you can do it!"<br />
From the moment he lost the coin I was watching him and looking for ways for him to earn the coin back. This is one of the main reasons why I love this system, it helps to get you to focus on the positive behaviors and even reward them for it!<br />
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It's a time of transition and learning in a child's life when they become a BIG brother or sister! For the past 5 months Garren has been adjusting to having a baby brother around the house. For the first month or two we had to show him that we don't "touch" the baby with a closed fist! I posted something on Facebook that I heard myself say after implementing the Coin Chart to Garren. I said, "We don't Hulk Smash the baby or you'll lose a coin!" This actually got him to stop for the moment!!! LOL<br />
Although we have our ups and downs I am definitely blessed that he LOVES his baby brother!<br />
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The other area I have really been seeing a change in is just simply listening to me and doing what he is told. Its great to finally have ONE system that helps give a natural consequence to any of the negative behaviors I don't want Garren repeating.<br />
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Here is my sweet boy on the first day starting his coin chart.</div>
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Since we started the chart, all of the kids get so excited to check the chart to see if he kept his coins on it from the day before! It's so fun to see his older siblings praising him for doing a good job. </div>
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We have already started talking about what he wants for his goal. He has had his eye on a large Incredible Hulk figure but his big sister Kiki is trying to convince him that he wants to go out for doughnuts! The great thing about this is when he sees something he likes when we are out, I will tell him, "If you really want that you CAN get that when you reach your goal! Just keep doing a good job and you can earn it!" Then I just remind him of how many stickers he has left to earn before his goal. Here is a picture from a trip to Target where I let Garren JUST LOOK at the toys and we left WITHOUT a meltdown! </div>
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If you want to know more about this system click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/03/coin-chart-behavioral-finance-chart-for.html">HERE </a>to see my original post!</div>
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The most important thing to know about any kind of behavioral system is that you make it your own and for it to work YOU must follow through with the guidelines.</div>
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From the time I posted this Coin Chart System, over three years ago, many other people have made the system their own. Click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/11/compilation-of-other-coin-chart-ideas.html">HERE</a> to see some of those examples!</div>
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My son Brenden is in Gymnastics. He is really determined to work hard and grow in each event. He has struggled most with the Gymnastics mushroom. In Gymnastics the mushroom is an integral part of pommel horse training. For Brenden to get better we wanted to have a mushroom at home so he can practice as much as he likes. The only problem is they cost around 300 dollars! Here are pictures of two Gymnastics mushrooms that you would find in any Gym.</div>
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The great thing is you can make your own for under 10 dollars!</div>
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Two of the main items you need to make your own mushroom, you can get for free. First you need a Cable Reel which you can get from Home Depot. Just go in and ask for one, they normally throw them away. Then you need a scrap of carpet underlayment which you should be able to score at any carpet store.</div>
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You first trace the base of the cable reel on the carpet underlayment and cut it out.</div>
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Next you will need some liquid glue and staple gun.</div>
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We started out stapling a piece of carpet underlayment to the reel.</div>
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Then you keep cutting out circles progressively smaller than the base. We cut out about 7 different circles. Then we liquid glued them together.</div>
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Next you need to cut a piece of underlayment that would lay over all the other layers.</div>
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Put more liquid glue over the layers, then turn the reel with all of the underlayment circles upside-down on a piece of Vinyl.</div>
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Next pull the Vinyl tightly up over the edge of the underlayment and reel and staple it to the wood.</div>
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Repeat this step all the way around the reel, stapling the Vinyl to the wood.</div>
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There you have it, your very own Gymnastics Mushroom!</div>
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You can start practicing right away!</div>
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I Still have a Christmas Wreath on my door and it's MARCH! I wanted to make a wreath that would be good for spring, summer, and fall so I wouldn't have to keep changing it! I also wanted it to be personal! I knew I wanted all of my kids first letters somewhere in it. </div>
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Then I thought of a fun idea to use the fabric from clothing they grew out of!</div>
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Here is a picture of the clothing I picked out to use to make the flowers. The flower with their letter in it was made out of an article of clothing they actually wore! The most special flower is little Rowens. The onesie I used to make the light blue petals, all 3 of my boys wore!</div>
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All you do is cut circles out of the fabric. You need 5 circles per flower. </div>
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My circles were about 4 1/2 inches. </div>
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The larger you make the circle, the larger your flower will be.</div>
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Iron your circles and then fold them in half two times and iron them again.</div>
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All you do is stitch the cut edge and then pull the stitch tight to make a petal.</div>
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With the same piece of thread keep stitching your folded circles together.</div>
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After you have stitched five folded circles, connect the first and last together to make your flower.</div>
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Here are the four flowers I made all stitched together.</div>
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You can really use anything in the middle of your flowers. Some examples could be buttons or jewels. I happened to find these cute chalkboard clips in the dollar section at Target. I just pulled the little wooden flower off of the clip.</div>
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Then I hot glued them to the center of my fabric flowers.</div>
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As you can see below, I also made a flower out of cream ribbon to add to the wreath to put a W for our last name in it.</div>
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Once all of my flowers were done I printed each letter on paper just the right size to fit in the center of each flower. I sealed them on using Mod Podge.</div>
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This last step can really be done however you want it depending on your style. </div>
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I love stick wreaths and I also bought some cream flower embellishments to add.</div>
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Here is my finished wreath and I couldn't be more pleased!</div>
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It makes my door look so much more inviting and just in time for Spring!</div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-63939375447935094352015-02-01T12:30:00.000-06:002015-02-01T12:38:18.389-06:00Spy Valentines Theme ~ Bomb Valentines & Cereal Box Briefcase <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a way to make your little spy happy for Valentine's day! </div>
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Make these SIMPLE and fun Spy theme Valentines and Valentines box!</div>
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First we have a sucker bomb!</div>
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It is So easy to make and only costs a few dollars!</div>
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I love valentines made from suckers because who doesn't love a sucker AND you can get so many for low cost!</div>
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First thing you have to do to make these bombs is bend the sucker stick in two places. </div>
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Then you will need a square of foil and a square of black tissue for each sucker.</div>
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After bending the sucker stick, I took the square of foil and brought it up and around the sucker but didn't close it all the way! Then you get your black tissue square and bring it up around the foil and push it into the space between the sucker and foil.</div>
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After your tissue is up around the foil just squeeze the foil shut and it will hold your tissue in place!</div>
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The best part to this step is there is no glue needed!!!</div>
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Now to light the fuse of the bomb!</div>
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I folded a piece of orange construction paper in half so when I cut out the "flame" I would have two identical pieces of paper. On one side write "U R the BOMB!" and on the other side write "from" your child's name. After you cut out the flame you hot glue it to the top of the sucker stick!</div>
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Here is an example of the flame on the bomb and what it says on both sides!</div>
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Next, I thought it would be fun to make a Valentines box to match the theme of the bombs. </div>
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What is better than a spy Briefcase?</div>
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All you need to make this is an empty cereal box, black spray paint, duct tape, and velcro.</div>
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First you cut the front panel of you cereal box, leaving one side attached.</div>
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Then lay it out flat and then spray paint it the color of your choice.</div>
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I painted my son's black!</div>
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Then I cut some extra cardboard to fit where the top of the cereal box was because my kids ripped the top. After hot gluing the cardboard in place I got some black duct tape.</div>
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I taped the whole side so it would be all black.</div>
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Then I reinforced the other edges by adding tape to them as well.</div>
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Next, to make the handle I used the black duct tape around a long piece of thin cardboard.</div>
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I say thin because you have to be able to bend it.</div>
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Next, make two slits big enough to stick your handle into.</div>
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Then you hot glue or duct tape the ends of the cardboard handle up to the top of the box.</div>
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Next I used silver duct tape for an accent. I cut a strip in half and taped it around the briefcase in two strips on each side of the handle. then when I got to the top I used a piece of duct tape folded in half to finish out each line. I hot glued it down to the box.</div>
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There you have it, a very cost effective way to give your child a spy themed Valentines day!</div>
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I stored all of Brenden's bombs in his briefcase, ready to take to school!</div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-90198974974503111462015-01-29T08:42:00.000-06:002015-01-29T08:42:47.720-06:00Baby's First Christmas Ornament & Other Pregnancy Photo Ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Knowing that my baby was due right around Christmas I wanted to take a picture of him holding an ornament and showing how little he was compared to it. </div>
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I thought of the fun idea to make the ornament he is holding in the picture to be his "baby's first" ornament. So after taking the picture I printed it out wallet size.</div>
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It's a little tough to attach a picture to a ball ornament so it might be easier to do this with an ornament that has a flat surface. </div>
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To attach a picture to a round surface I cut the edges of the picture so it would mold a little easier and then I hot glued the picture on the plastic ball. </div>
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Next, I used Mod Podge to seal the picture to the ornament.</div>
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I added a little flare by using some puffy paints and making a design around the picture.</div>
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Don't forget to put the year on the ornament somewhere. </div>
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The other idea for a picture I had was to put my baby in his Christmas stocking while holding a candy cane.</div>
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I thought the picture turned out so cute That I wanted to turn the candy cane into an ornament also.</div>
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I found a nice felt gift tag. </div>
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There was a "To and From" card inside the felt gift tag so I Mod Podged the picture to one side. </div>
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On the other side I wrote "Rowen's 1st Christmas".</div>
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Then I hot glued the gift tag to the candy cane. </div>
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Here is what it looks like up close with the tag open with the picture of my baby holding the candy cane!</div>
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Here is a picture of the gift tag closed.</div>
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I will hang it on the tree just like this!</div>
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Here are a few fun photo ideas to do for before and after pregnancy!</h2>
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This first picture idea is perfect for a baby born around Christmas time!</div>
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Take your first picture, BEFORE, pregnant and holding your new baby's stocking!</div>
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Then, AFTER, take your next picture in the same spot with your baby in the stocking.</div>
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This next idea is fun if you have other children! Get them involved in taking progressive photos of your growing tummy! I took pictures 12, 16, 20, 25, 30, 34, 38 weeks and 2 weeks old! </div>
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We had a lot of fun making up different poses for the kids to do while holding the sign of how far along I was!</div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-29963760900512757932014-12-18T16:40:00.000-06:002014-12-18T16:43:42.018-06:00Present to Big Brother/Big Sister: From New Baby (#2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First, I want to introduce you all to Rowen Wesley!</div>
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We feel so blessed and complete now that he is here!</div>
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I prepared three sibling presents from the new baby!</div>
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This time instead of doing a little present in a baby bottle like I did <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/06/present-to-big-brotherbig-sister-from.html">HERE</a>, I collected a little bit larger present for the siblings! First step it making the bag. I used a blue bag for the boys and pink for my girl.</div>
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I simply printed out tags for the bags which I colored with markers.</div>
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To seal the tag to the bag I used a little Mod Podge and simply let it dry.</div>
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The next few pictures show in stages what I added to the sibling presents from their baby brother.</div>
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First, I added a book to each of the kids bags. For my two older kids I gave them drawing books and for my little two year old who has never experienced gaining a new sibling, I got him a "Big Brother" book!</div>
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Then, I got each of my kids a journal with their initial and a fun pen to draw or write in their journal.</div>
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Lastly, I added some playdoh and a bag of candy from their Halloween candy. You can also add some healthier options like fruit leather or Annie's snack bags. </div>
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The whole idea is to add things that would keep them busy in the hospital when they visit and something they can snack on! I might add some fresh fruit closer to the actual day I go in to have the baby.</div>
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Another idea that I really want to add to the two older siblings bags is a disposable camera. I think they would have fun taking their own pictures around the room and it would be fun to look back on their perspective of the special day!</div>
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Lastly, I wrote two poems from new baby to older brother and one to older sister.</div>
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I have them here to print for free, just click on the link.</div>
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What I did was add a little note written from new baby to sibling that was like he was writing it the day he was born!</div>
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For Garren, I used a poem that I used to give to Brenden the day Garren was born.</div>
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You can find that poem, free printable, <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/06/present-to-big-brotherbig-sister-from.html">HERE</a> along with the sibling present ideas I had the last time when Garren was born!</div>
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My kids decided they wanted to give out candy canes to their classes for Christmas. I'm sure this is partly because then Candy Canes would be in our house and they could "SAMPLE" a few along with giving them out!! They also wanted to give out a card with it so I came up with this cute ornament they could decorate and tape to a candy cane!</div>
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I think colored pencils are the best to use to color in the ornaments because marker sometimes bleeds through and covers up the letters!</div>
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I pulled out my good colored pencils and we colored away while listening to Christmas music!</div>
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For a fun touch, I got a few small things of glitter glue from the Target dollar section! Kiki loves glitter glue!</div>
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After your ornaments are dry, simply cut them out, tape a candy cane to the back, and have your child sign their name!!</div>
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I think they turned out SO CUTE!</div>
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If your child isn't in school yet, you can also have your kids make these and hang them on the tree! Whenever a guest comes over they can pull one off the tree and give it to them!</div>
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I made it easy for you and added a FREE printable of the ornaments below!!!!</div>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!</div>
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I love the idea of a tree on the walls of a nursery! The other cool thing about them is you can use the branches to "hang" picture frames on. I have always loved this tree so when I found out I was pregnant, I knew I wanted to paint it on the wall over the crib! A few years ago I found this tree decal and painted it on the wall of our old house when we had Garren! I painted it in black, just like the decal. Here is a picture of the tree from our old house. You can click on the picture below to see the process and the link to the decal is there if you don't want to try and paint a tree yourself.</div>
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I figured that no matter the sex of the baby, I was going to put it in the room with Garren because they would be closest in age. He has the smallest bedroom in our house so I had a lot of planning to do. First, I wanted to paint over the baige color that our whole house was painted before we moved in! </div>
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I chose a light gray color for the wall because it's a good neutral. It looks slightly blue in the picture below. I also knew I wanted to have white furniture along with painting the tree white.</div>
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Then I found a used toddler bed that I painted white to match the crib!</div>
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I figured teal would be a great accent color for a unisex room so I started getting a few teal accents like the fabric shelf containers.</div>
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Here is the wall where I decided to paint the tree!</div>
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Here I am drawing the tree while Garren is playing! </div>
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Then, here is the tree with its first coat of paint!</div>
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I figured I wanted to draw something on the branches so I drew two monkeys to represent the two kids in the room! I darkened the picture so you can see the drawings of the monkeys before I painted them.</div>
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I painted the one monkey teal to represent Garren and the second one I didn't paint until I found out the sex of the baby. If the baby was a girl I was going to add some violet accents along with the teal and if the baby was a boy I was going to add accents of orange.</div>
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While I waited to find out the sex of the baby, I worked on other pieces in the room. The dresser was painted for my older sons room and HAD to be changed!!!</div>
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I LOVE the way it looks matt gray with teal accents!</div>
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We worked on getting the crib up and it fit perfect in the room!</div>
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Here Garren is showing off his new room!</div>
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Then, finally when 18 weeks came around we found out we were having a boy so the orange accents started being added!</div>
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I painted four little frames the accent colors and added the first letter of each of our kids names! I blurred out the baby's initial because we haven't told everyone his name yet!</div>
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Then I hung the frames on the branches.</div>
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Here is the finished tree!</div>
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I am so happy with the finished product of the room with the cute tree! You can also see in this picture that I made a teal and orange mobile. You can click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2014/09/make-your-own-baby-mobile-monster-theme.html">HERE</a> to see how easy it is to make your own baby mobile!</div>
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My daughter Kiki always has BIG ideas for her birthday parties! Last year she wanted a princess party with a pink princess castle! Here is what I created for her! You can click on the picture below to see the process and other things I did for the party!</div>
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This year she wanted a Jungle theme party where all of the kids invited could pretend to be animals in a HUGE cave!!! She got a Panda costume for Halloween the year so that is what she dressed as! Here is the process of what we did to make our little girl's birthday dream come true! First, we picked up a bunch of free boxes from a furniture store. A tip about making large cardboard structures is that if you open the box up it covers a lot larger area!<br />
We started moving the boxes around to come up with our design. I wanted to put it in the same corner we put the castle in and also have a large area on the inside that the kids could stand up in and play.<br />
I think we had about 17 kids total at the party which is why I wanted an open area inside, so everyone would be able to play! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We figured we would make one way in and one way out... The kids would have to crawl through the caves to get into the larger area and my husband came up with the idea for the kids to slide out of it!</span><br />
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Here is the beginning of the cave that the kids could crawl through.... at first we just taped the boxes together and to the wall to hold them in place... then my husband cut the openings afterwards!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5McnWMS6E62ZtMUp4zbwV-LDV0nnmBdgQd1vGZUa-RFuqZi4TGJXYNZYajZioMOuGutG8JdF0M46NJJPlE5gnbnnPzgqhbxJ8Ya5cNGkeBrgSpxL3XMXbwyfqZEnMyaO9kRYJd6biz0/s1600/IMG_3394.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv5McnWMS6E62ZtMUp4zbwV-LDV0nnmBdgQd1vGZUa-RFuqZi4TGJXYNZYajZioMOuGutG8JdF0M46NJJPlE5gnbnnPzgqhbxJ8Ya5cNGkeBrgSpxL3XMXbwyfqZEnMyaO9kRYJd6biz0/s1600/IMG_3394.png" height="480" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
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Here is a picture of what the inside of the cave looks like before the outside structure of the cave is done!</div>
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We opened up the boxes and used duct tape to tape the walls together and the cardboard to the floor!<br />
If you want your boxes to hold, you want to use GOOD and STRONG duct tape.... not cheap stuff!</div>
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Here is the basic structure of the cave just in boxes!</div>
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We then attached cardboard to the ceiling to cover up the opening so no one could see in! We also added another cave to crawl through on the right of the cave opening!</div>
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Once all of the cardboard was in place we used about 6 rolls of brown packaging paper, which I got from the Dollar Store, to cover it up. We unraveled the whole roll of paper and crumpled it up to give it more of a "rock" look. Then we taped or stapled it to the cardboard. *tip* After all this work we realized that the cheapest and best tape to use for the outside packaging paper is clear packaging tape...</div>
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Next, I transformed one of the posts downstairs in the basement into a tree! I used green tablecloths from the dollar store to make the "Leaves". I just taped them to the top of the post and then to the ceiling after stretching them out!</div>
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To make the pole look more like bark, Kiki and I painted Trader Joes shopping bags a little darker brown, ripped the bottom edges a little and stapled/taped them around the pole!</div>
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I then added a Dollar Store white and green table cloth to the wall to make the jungle scene extend on the wall a little!</div>
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I finger painted, with acrylics, some vines and leaves to the top of the white table cloth!</div>
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I drew two monkeys on regular paper and had Kiki help me color them. Then we cut them out and taped them to the table cloth!</div>
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We also added another little cave to crawl in over by the slide! This one had a bunch of blankets in the bottom so it was nice and soft inside!</div>
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This is a picture before it was all covered with brown paper!</div>
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I then added green crepe paper hanging from the ceiling like green vines. I wanted to show you what it looked like before and after I crumpled the crepe paper! When you crumple it up a little, it makes it look more like vines! </div>
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The kids love sliding out of the cave into the vines!</div>
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I also added crumpled crepe paper vines in front of the cave to add a little color.... </div>
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I made a cute little sign to go on the front with some scrapbook paper that says "Kiki's Kave"!</div>
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Here is the finished Cave!</div>
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We had a few games planned for the kids! </div>
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The kids were having so much fun playing that we only really got to do the big scavenger hunt. </div>
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Here is what we did!</div>
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We had the kids decorate brown paper bags upstairs with markers and stickers while two older kids went down to the cave area to hide plastic animals that I picked up from the dollar store!</div>
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We had a bunch of different jungle animals like this and there was one hidden for every child!</div>
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They got to keep their animal as part of their party favor!</div>
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The simple rule was to find an animal and then help the others who haven't found one yet! </div>
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It was great and no one felt left out, which definitely can happen with this many children!</div>
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They sat down on the floor in front of the cave after they found their animal.</div>
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After everyone showed that they found an animal, they earned a safari map to find their treasure!</div>
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I drew a basic outline of our house and property on brown paper and burnt the edges to make it look old! I drew "you are here" and circled it in red and then we drew a dotted line to follow to find numbers 1 through 4 in our yard which then lead to X marks the spot!!!</div>
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It was such a BEAUTIFUL fall day! Here are the kids running to find #2 on one of our trees!</div>
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The X lead the kids to the treasure box piñata!</div>
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I normally don't let my kids have a lot of candy.... so a Piñata was Kiki's BIGGEST wish besides the cave!!! So this was a special event!</div>
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Here is the birthday girl taking a swing! </div>
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We also made this cute pin the tail on the Giraffe game which we didn't get to play till most of the kids left.</div>
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If you haven't seen my posts before on this....I LOVE Staples for their engineering prints!</div>
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My husband photoshopped a picture of Kiki sitting and put her on a free giraffe coloring page we found online!</div>
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If you don't know how to photoshop you can simply just use any free coloring page of the jungle animal of your choosing and have it printed for just a few bucks! The poster was HUGE! It was 36"X48" and only $7.76!</div>
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I added the two other posts I have done on Staples Engineering Prints if you want to find out how to do this for yourself or for one of your parties! Just click on the picture and it will take you to the post! </div>
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*One other game idea for your Jungle Theme party is Jungle Animal Freeze Dance. All you do is play music and when it stops yell out an animal name and the kids have to freeze like that animal!</div>
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First of all, I can't believe October is already here!</div>
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Knowing the holidays were coming at us so quickly, I was thinking of making a wreath for my door for Halloween/Thanksgiving time! I didn't want to spend a lot of time or money. I wondered if the Dollar Store would have a few things I could put together for fun Decor for my door. What I came up with was so cute, simple to put together, and only cost me a few dollars!!!</div>
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First I picked out some Halloween/fall flowers and this cute little crow.</div>
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You can use anything you want to add an accent to your flowers. They have so many different decorations there. Since I wanted to keep this up past Halloween, I chose something not so scary!</div>
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I put my flowers together the way I liked them then duct taped the stems together at the bottom.</div>
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This crow comes with wire on his feet so I simply wrapped him around the stems!</div>
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Then I got my dollar Styrofoam pumpkin.... I have also seen these at target in the dollar section with a glitter look. Use whatever you think looks the best for your home!</div>
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I used a kitchen knife to cut the pumpkin in half, then cut a little indent at the top for my bouquet to fit into. So your bouquet doesn't stick out in the back you might have to cut some leaves or flowers off to make it lay flat!</div>
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I, then, just hot glued the flowers to the pumpkin!</div>
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Here is what it looks like all attached together! </div>
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I wanted to add a W for our last name so I painted it on the center of the pumpkin with black acrylic paint.</div>
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I sealed the paint on with Sparkle Mod Podge!</div>
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This step is not nessary, however, I didn't want my W to ever chip off and I wanted a sparkle look to my pumpkin. I highly suggest using Mod Podge to seal anything you paint on the pumpkin!</div>
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Then I tied some curling ribbon to the back of the stems so it could hang on my door.</div>
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Get out your wreath hook and hook on your new cute door decor!</div>
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Here you can really see the sparkle that the Mod Podge seal gives my pumpkin!</div>
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Happy October EVERYONE!!! I hope this gets you inspired to create something for your home this season!</div>
*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-70115392016454482142014-09-01T09:30:00.001-05:002014-09-01T09:36:15.748-05:00Make Your Own Baby Mobile ~ Monster Theme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of my favorite projects to do when I am pregnant! I love to come up with a cute theme for the room that the baby is going in! This was particularly fun because I got to come up with something for my "little boys" room! For the color scheme, I knew from the start that I was going to use turquoise. If the baby was a girl I was going to combine purple and if the baby was a boy I was going to combine orange!<br />
After the color scheme was set, I came up with a "Little Monster's" theme.<br />
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I pulled out the mobile that I made when Garren was a baby. As you can see I had a Tiger theme for his room with the colors black, cream, and white! Just like my little monsters, I used felt and hand stitched these little tiger faces together!<br />
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The first thing I did to get started was take apart the tiger mobile.<br />
Then I spray painted the frame orange.<br />
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If you would like to see more to this whole process you can click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/03/ideas-to-make-your-own-baby-mobile.html">HERE</a> to see how I changed a Hello Kitty mobile that I made for my daughter to this tiger mobile. It's such a simple process to make your own!</div>
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I put together simple cute monsters with felt. </div>
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I wanted to do it the fast way so I hot glued the features on the face but you could hand stitch them if you want. </div>
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This could pose a choking hazard if you allow your baby to actually touch the mobile but they are normally only used while a baby is small AND only to look at! </div>
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After getting the monsters to look like I wanted, I outlined the shape of the body and cut it out for the backing.</div>
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I started hand stitching around the edge of the monster.</div>
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I left a small opening at the top and stuffed the monster with cotton balls.</div>
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Another thing I love to add to the center of my mobiles is a plastic silver ball christmas ornament. Babies love to look at the reflective surface and PLASTIC makes it a safe option.</div>
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Here is the finished product of my cute little monster mobile!</div>
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Ever since I put the mobile up in the crib, Garren loves to pretend he is a baby and lay under it.</div>
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He likes to say which monster is his favorite as they go around.</div>
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Here he is watching the monsters while holding the special Dino we built for the baby at Trex Cafe.</div>
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This brings me to the other special tradition that we have for our kids. </div>
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We go to Build A Bear or Build A Dino with our child/ren before the baby is born and let them make a special stuffed animal as a present to the baby.</div>
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The kids record a special message to the baby, which is sooooo much fun to listen to even years later.</div>
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They each get to pick out a heart, kiss it, and put it into the doll before it is stuffed.</div>
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Here is a picture of my kids kissing a heart for their new baby brother.</div>
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Here is a picture of all of us from our fun trip to Trex Cafe. </div>
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The kids will bring the doll to the hospital to give to the baby when they first meet him!</div>
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I have blogged about this fun idea before. </div>
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Click <a href="http://lifesprinkledwithglitter.blogspot.com/2012/06/present-to-big-brotherbig-sister-from.html">HERE</a> to see that post along with some other fun ideas you can do in preparation for a new baby!</div>
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*Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14258586684457466741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6703305321869117463.post-53013537346940828052014-08-29T15:00:00.001-05:002016-11-02T06:24:54.047-05:00DIY Slugterra Costume<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My son Brenden always keeps me on my toes with costume making!</div>
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Since we only have Nexflix, he is always finding new shows he likes and asking to dress like one of the characters! In this case, he started watching SlugTerra and wanted to dress like the main character, Eli Shane!</div>
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The first thing that came to my mind when thinking about the canisters that the slugs are held in was plastic spice containers! I got the cheapest ones from Target and it is awesome because their lids are already black! I simply poured the spices/herbs in bags for later use!</div>
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It was tough to get some of the wrapping off of the plastic so I just used De-solv-it and it took everything off!</div>
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I then got out my trusty Mod Podge and added a little blue food coloring. </div>
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I painted each case to tint the plastic blue!</div>
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Here is one fully painted!</div>
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They dry pretty quickly, so once you are done painting all of them with Mod Podge, your first one should be dry. </div>
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I then painted all the bottoms with this black design.</div>
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Next, I had to find clips to glue to the back….</div>
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I didn't have time to go to many stores so I just bought clearance clips from Target. I am sure you could find something cheeper at a craft store or even the dollar store!</div>
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I just cut away the decoration on the clip!</div>
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Here is what I ended up with! </div>
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Then I just used E6000 to glue it to the case! </div>
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You want to glue the clip opening pointing downward!</div>
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I wanted my clips black so I just colored them with a sharpie!</div>
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This step is optional!</div>
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My kids got LUCKY…. the day after I finished making the Slug Cases, it was Brenden's half birthday. I just thought I would do something nice for them and get them this ten pack of slugs to share since it would have taken them a while to save with their own money.</div>
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Here is Brenden holding up his favorite slug in it's new home!</div>
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The slugs and cases!</div>
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There is a cheeper option to buying the slugs!!! This is actually what I was going to do with my kids at first! There are many cute coloring pages of the different slugs…. Just search "slug terra coloring pages" Find your child's favorite and size/print them to fit inside the case. Have your child color them and there you go…. FREE slugs!</div>
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Next step is making something they can attach the slug cases to on their shirt! I went to a used clothing store and found a baseball belt. I cut it and hand stitched to to a black teeshirt. You could also use thick black string too! Here is Brenden just wearing the black shirt with the black belt stitched to it!</div>
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Now, if you want to get a little more fancy with it and you know how to sew….</div>
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THIS is what Eli Shane's shirt really looks like with white and orange under the armpit!</div>
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I was going to do this step but then I realized my kids didn't care….</div>
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All they really wanted was the slugs and cases!</div>
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This blog shows how they sewed up a SlugTerra shirt…. Just click on the picture below to be taken there!</div>
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Lastly, arm you child with a cool handheld nerf gun and they will be off playing SlugTerra!</div>
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<b>Update from November 2016:</b></div>
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I recently found these awesome little slugs online. They are internationally shipped so expect to wait a little bit BUT I got all 24 of these for only $10.48! I bought two packs of these! My boys are going to love this for Christmas! FYI, There is no packaging that come with them, just the slugs.</div>
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Click on the picture to go to the website!</div>
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