snowman play-doh

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My kids LOVE playing with play-doh. Sometimes I make my own, and sometimes I buy the good ol' play-doh brand. There's just something about that smell when you open a fresh can. Brings back memories of childhood. I had some cans of white play-doh that the kids were never using. I guess white play-doh wasn't very excited to them, lol. I decided to add some fine glitter to it, decorate the can to look like a snowman, and we could use it to make snowmen. Well, let me tell you, they absolutely LOVED it. We picked out some cute buttons, some snowman cookie cutters and decorated these cute little guys. This was a really fun INDOOR Winter activity - my favourite kind of Winter activity.







Here's how we made this:

What you'll need:

white play-doh
cardstock - white, orange, black
googly eyes
paper hole punch
scissors
glue
pom pom

snowman cookie cutters
fine glitter
buttons
rolling pins

Directions:

1. cut a piece of white cardstock the same length as your can of play-doh and wrap it around the can. Glue down the ends.
2. using your scissors and orange cardstock, cut out an orange carrot nose and glue this on your play-doh can.
3. glue on 2 googly eyes and a pom pom hat
4. using your black cardstock and your hole punch, cut out some black dots for the mouth and glue them on your snowman. Allow time for all the glue to dry.
5. take your white play-doh out of the can and add some super fine blue glitter. Knead the play-doh until all the glitter is evenly distributed throughout the play-doh. It's hard to see in the pictures, but it gives the play-doh such a nice, pretty sheen.



6. give the play-doh to your kiddos and let them have fun rolling, cutting and decorating their snowmen!





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guess who's in Parenting magazine???

Pin It It's me!!!!!!

I am beyond ecstatic to be telling you guys that a couple breakfasts I designed for kids are in the March issue of Parenting magazine.





How cool is that?!?! I totally want to frame the magazine page because I'm a total geek like that.

If you want the details on how to make these adorable breakfasts for your little ones, you'll have to pick up the March copy of Parenting magazine in stores right now!

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this week in bento boxes

Pin It I hope everyone is having a great weekend! We're having a much better weekend in our household now that we are all healthy again (*knock on wood*). Gastro went through every person in this house and it wasn't fun. Here are some recent bento's for Kirsten. It seems there was a bit of a panda theme going on here.



This cute panda bento was for Kirsten's afternoon nutrition break. She had a circle cut chicken sandwich with a cute panda piece of baran decoration on top. She also had a mini silicone cup filled with craisins and some pretzels. The top tier held some crinkle cup cucumbers with a cute panda pick.



This little bento was made for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. She had a cereal bar in the top tier and in the bottom tier she had alternating slices of orange and apple. The orange slices in between the apple slices kept the apple from browning. There was also a cute little lion pick and a cute little bunny pick.



This was another morning nutrition break bento. She had some green grapes, blueberries and strawberries with a little panda pick in the top tier. The bottom tier held a cereal bar in a silicone muffin cup, and some wheat thin crackers with bear cheese cut-outs.



Here's another panda bento for her afternoon nutrition break. The top tier held some crinkle cut cucumbers with a panda pick. The bottom tier had a circle-cut ham sandwich with a panda bear cheese on top with icing eyes. She also had some blueberries with another panda pick.



And lastly, a small snack bento for either a pasta or pizza day at school. She had a frozen smoothie (defrosts by her break and keeps her lunch bag cool), and some sliced kiwis and blueberries with a frog pick.

Here are some of the supplies (or similar) that I used to make these lunches:







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fun food friday: a lunch fit for a princess

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Here is another lunch made with my awesome lunches punches. The lunch punches seriously make creating a cute lunch for your kiddos so simple. It literally takes seconds to punch your sandwiches into adorable shapes. This was a lunch for my little princess and she absolutely adored it. Here's how I made it:

Ham and cheese sandwich cut with the princess lunch punch. I also cut a piece of cheese with it so the princess has a cheese crown and star wand. I put flower sprinkles on the princess wings and a heart sprinkle mouth with chocolate sprinkle eyes. She also had a container of yogurt with sprinkles and a rice krispie treat wand with sprinkles. Wow! She sure got a lot of sprinkles with this lunch, lol. Oops. I cut the rice krispie treat into a star shape and stuck it on a lollipop stick. Kirsten was waving that thing around all lunch. She also had blueberries around the plate to give it a little more nutritional value.

Here are some of the supplies (or similar) that I used to make this lunch:



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my silly girl

Pin It Here's my sweet little four year old Kirsten. She absolutely loves playing dress-up these days. She has quite the little personality too, just like her little brother. Every time she comes out of her bedroom these days, she usually has some kind of wild outfit on. I never know what I'm going to see! I'm very blessed to have 2 sweet children. Here's some pics of my little lady:













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my silly guy

Pin It Here's a few pics of my sweet little Cam taken about 2 weekends ago. He is getting quite the personality. He loves making faces and thinks he's pretty hilarious. I just think he's pretty cute! Love my silly guy!





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this week in bento boxes

Pin It Well this post is a day late, but I just couldn't do much of anything yesterday. Gastro has hit my household HARD. Both the kids and I have been so sick. Lucky James seems to have escaped it again. He's done such a great job looking after us though, he deserves it! I am not a good sick person. This was totally not how I intended to spend my long weekend either. Boo. Anyway, on to the lunches. Here's some more cute lunches for my cute girl:



This was a super cute bento for her morning nutrition break. She had a monkey muffin, a peeled clementine orange with an adorable leaf pick and a banana. I start the peel on the banana from the back so she can easily peel it herself at school.



This bento was for her afternoon nutrition break. She had a turkey sandwich cut into a circle with a fruit leather and sprinkle flower. She also had some cheddar cheese cubes with a monkey pick and some crinkle cut cucumbers with an elephant pick.



This little piggy bento was for her morning nutrition break. She had a sweet little piggy decorated muffin, a silicone muffin cup filled with blueberries and some yogurt with sprinkles.



This was a realy quick and easy snack bento. For fundraising at Kirsten's school, they have pizza day and pasta day each once a week. I try to pack her a smaller bento box on these days so she can have something nutritious with her pasta or pizza. This was one of those bento's. She had some sliced melons and pineapple with an elephant pick and a frozen strawberry banana smoothie. I take the smoothies out of the freezer in the morning and it will be defrosted by her lunch break. It also helps keep her lunch cool.



And lastly, a sweet little mouse bento for her morning nutrition break. She had an adorable little mouse muffin, a silicone muffin cup filled with cubed marble cheese and a mouse pick and a container of green grapes.

Here are some of the supplies (or similar) that I used to make these lunches:







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