The hats left by the "leprechaun" were a hit, too!
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St. Patrick's Day Weekend Breakfasts Saturday Night's Dinner Green Pudding Dessert Craft #1: Leprechaun Masks Craft #2: Paper Plate Leprechaun Faces The Rainbow Cake Fun & Games Everyone who was wearing green got $0.50 that the "leprechaun" left with me. I also had a game where everybody picked a number to see who would go first. Each person got to pick a goodie bag. All of the goodie bags had a small handful of M&Ms and an extra treat. There were prizes for two of the bags: My brother chose the one with the green Hershey kiss and won $1.00 (which he gave to Shaba Girl). Love Bug chose the bag with a "gold" chocolate bar and won $5.00! Everyone had fun with the game and everyone got a treat! The hats left by the "leprechaun" were a hit, too! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks!
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Growing Shamrocks Thankful to my mom aka The Master for this cute kit! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Another great year at "The Rock That Rolled" Easter Party at McLean Bible Church Prince William's campus last Friday! There were a lot of new things to do and some old favorites. My family had been looking forward to this event for a month. We were so thankful to be healthy enough to go and participate. There was so much to do! We just couldn't do it all. We got a quick glimpse at some of the animals and missed the moonbounce, but we got some cotton candy this year! We were definitely tired by the end of the night! Some highlights included:
If you didn't make it this year, you should definitely plan on attending next year! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! With everyone being sick, I haven't done anything to gear up for St. Patrick's Day this year except decorate a little. I have a few crafts planned this weekend and also plan on making Rainbow Cupcakes or maybe even a Rainbow Cake. These cupcakes are not much harder than "regular" ones, but really make for a fun treat because of all of the colors. We did these cupcakes at cooking class in the fall. I thought these would be more fun for St. Patrick's Day than just making green cupcakes. To make them more festive, I was thinking about dying the icing green and topping with a chocolate coin. You could even use M&Ms or Skittles to make a rainbow, especially if you were making a sheet cake. Rainbow Cupcakes Ingredients: Your favorite cake recipe or box mix and frosting-- both prepared and food coloring Supplies: Muffin tins, muffin tin wrappers, Ziploc bags, 4-5 containers (large measuring cups or bowls), spoons or spatulas What to do:
Dying the cake mix. Sweet Girl was in charge of making the green cake batter. Everyone made a color for part of the rainbow! The finished product. We piped on the icing and added sprinkles. YUM! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! On "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" day, we also made breadstick snakes to go with our dinner. We were pretty ambitious with everything we got done that day! I know, snakes don't have anything to do with the Grinch, but we needed some bread to go with our stuffed shells. :) We had never worked with breadstick dough before and the girls really enjoyed stretching it out to make snakes. I posted the recipe on my "Miles and Miles of Reptiles" post but wanted to share a few pictures with this post. *Header photo from phillipmartin.info **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch." "And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” This book was requested by Sweet Girl. It was fun to do a Christmas book when it wasn't Christmas time. I can't believe I never thought about doing something with this story around Christmas because we always watch the video. We had a lot of fun with this one! Take it further:
Breakfast: We started off the morning with some special "Cat in the Hat" bananas with red and white sprinkles. We also had a yummy smoothie. Lunch: I used some leftover ham to cut out triangle shapes for Christmas trees. I cut up a fruit strip for the trunks. Carrots made for the forest ground and the cheese balls were the "stars" according to Sweet Girl. Again, this was just the presentation plate. Cheese and fruit were on the side. The Grinch: Before and After activity Sweet Girl and I did this activity while Love Bug napped. We used this sheet to get started. We talked about what the Grinch was like before his heart grew. She did a pretty good job coming up with adjectives to describe him. Then, we talked about what the Grinch was like after his heart grew. I wrote the "bad" characteristics in red and the "good" ones in black. Sweet Girl colored in the picture of the Grinch (and gave him a body!) after we were done. I liked this activity because it got us thinking and talking about the movie. Now that Sweet Girl is older and can communicate really well, I can see us doing more of these type of activities. Craft: Grinch Face I was really pleased with the way these turned out. They have such character! I got this idea from kiboomukidscrafts.com There's no set template which is great because they don't look like cookie cutter Grinches. :) Supplies needed: Green and red construction paper, white paper, scissors, black marker, red and yellow crayons, glue stick, cotton balls What to do:
Activity: Grinch Goo Bag I was so excited when I came across this idea on Growing a Jeweled Rose's website! We had to improvise with what we had because I totally found this activity by accident. We used liquid bathroom soap because it was the closet thing we had to hair gel, but it worked out fine! Supplies needed: A zip-lock bag, green food coloring, craft foam, buttons, a permanent marker, clear hair gel and packaging Tape or Duct Tape What to do:
*This is an activity that should be done with adult supervision. There are small objects in the bag and the soap/gel should not be ingested. We did have a bag get a small hole in it. I suggest playing with the bag at the table or kitchen floor--not on the carpet! After the project:
Grinch Recipe: Who-Pudding We ended the night with this yummy recipe came from the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook my husband checked out at the library. We "cheated" and used store bought tapicoa pudding, but used their recipe for the sauce. Below is the entire recipe. Who-Pudding How To Ingredients:
Supplies needed: measuring cups and spoons, grater, bowl, fine strainer, bowl, medium saucepan, mixing spoon, fork, stove top, blender, serving dishes and spoons What to do:
Makes 4-6 servings. The sauce keeps well in the refrigerator is you don't use it all. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! This is the first recipe I have used for non-cook playdoh. I found it quite a bit sticky at first, but just kneaded in some more flour until the dough became more firm. This recipe comes from easychildcrafts.com. Check out their site for a number of different playdoh and clay recipes! Play Dough Recipe Ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon cooking oil, extract of choice for fragrance (I used about a teaspoon, but could've added more) Supplies needed: measuring cups, measuring spoons, large bowl, wooden spoon What to do:
* Store in an airtight container. **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Last year, McLean Bible Church Prince William Campus held "The Rock that Rolled" Family Easter Party for the first time. There were a lot of activities to choose from, but the focus was on the true meaning of Easter, Jesus rising from the dead. Sweet Girl has literally talked about this event for a year and is very excited about going back this year. She has loved sitting with her resurrection eggs and having me tell her the story of Easter. We had a blast last year and I know the girls will enjoy it again this year. You do have to register in advance for this event. More information can be found here. All of the activities pictured below are included in the registration cost. Dinner was extra. Outdoor Activities: There were two moonbounces, an enclosed obstacle course and a mama sheep with her two babies. They also had a cotton candy table--this went very fast! Egg Hunt: Each child got a bag and it was a free for all hunting for candy-filled eggs. Resurrection Eggs: Each child was given an egg carton. We made our way through different rooms to collect our eggs to tell the true story of Easter. Each room had a basket of numbered eggs and an symbolic item to go inside. The volunteers would share their station's part of the Easter story and then the child would put the item in his/her egg. Glitter Tatoos: This was a popular station for kids of all ages. Sweet Girl really wanted one (her first) so we waited in line. Of course she picked blue. :) Spread the Word Cookies: This station had sugar cookies, icing and sprinkles set out on a table. Each child got to do two cookies. One was for them to keep and one was to share with someone else to spread the message that "Jesus Loves You!" Hidden Message Eggs: The hard boiled eggs were prepped ahead of time with Easter messages (written with a wax crayon) for the children to "find" when they dipped the egg into the dye. They had a place for the eggs to dry while the children did other activities. Indoor Games: I didn't get any pictures of these for some reason, but they had your typical "fair" type games like ducks in a pond, basketball, bean bag toss, etc. Everyone got a prize for trying! Family Photo Room: They had this backdrop set up for family pictures. There was a table with paper frames for the children to color while you waited for your picture to be printed. We don't have a lot of family pictures, so we were excited for this opportunity and we actually took a good shot! Easter Show: They started off with some worship music before doing the puppet show. I just LOVE watching children learning about and praising the Lord! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! |
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