Category: Kid Crafts And Art

Weekly Round-up for September 17

9/17/2019

This is coming out a little late due to illness -- one freakishly weird pounding headache. Probably the summer flu. Icky. Either way, I'm keeping it brief because we did fewer things last week!

Things we did this past week:

2 failed science experiments
Made banana bread with TM
An ornament for Halloween
Finished the formatting and set The Tea Party up on all retail sites
Completed first drafts for books 3 and 4 in the Emma & Ava series
Released Little Witch Girl in paperback

Failed Science Experiments:

We decided to attempt a 3 ingredient slime.

Glue
Corn starch
food coloring

TM's slime turned into a sticky mess. It never reached the point where we could play with it.

Poor EG's slime was nothing but sticky glue-paste. Since TM's hadn't worked out, we didn't bother continuing to add corn starch to it.

EG did have the longest time spent cleaning her hands so they no longer resembled the Wicked Witch of the West!

We also tried a 3 ingredient flubber that never thickened. I tossed it in the trash without taking a picture.

That's the best of this last week. See you next week, hopefully healthy and with more to share.

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Pink and Purple Pancakes

9/7/2018

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My kids love pancakes, especially brightly colored versions of the recipe their babysitter found. The original recipe is on AllRecipes.com but I'm posting it below for you.

Pancake Ingredients:

1.5 c flour
3.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 TBSP sugar
1.25 c milk
1 egg
3 TBSP melted butter

Directions:

Combine dry ingredients and mix well.
Add in milk, egg, and butter. Mix well.
Add in food coloring (We use AmeriColor available on Amazon)
Cook in a greased skillet

The kids love making these in a variety of colors, but pink and purple seem to be the winners. I'm planning to buy big bottles of the pink and purple food coloring because we go through it faster than the other colors.

I make one batch then split it so each kid gets a bowl for their color choice. My eldest remains firmly in the pink camp. My youngest is much more willing to experiment. Thankfully, they will eat any color pancakes.

Even better, these can be frozen between pieces of wax paper. This is critical for my youngest who takes after my baby brother. She wants pancakes every morning and I don't often have the time to make a fresh batch. So, out of the freezer come the leftover pancakes. 30 seconds or so in the microwave and my youngest is a happy kiddo!

#pinkpurplepancakes

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How to Make a Kid Art Rail

8/15/2018

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If you have kids, you have art made by kids. If you're like me, then you know there is NEVER enough space to display all of their creations.

Make A Kid Art Rail

An art rail for kids can be purchased, but they are also fairly easy to make at home. Our family made ours, together -- an almost 3-year-old and 6-year-old, over about 3 days.

We took a lot of time in between steps. As long as you let the glue dry fully, you could do this faster.

Materials:

1 x 3 primed chair rail from hardware store
various colored glitter
glue (we used Elmer's leftover from kindergarten)
clothes pins

Directions:

Measure your wall and cut the primed chair rail to fit that space (or combine 2 together -- measure twice, cut once).
Paint the chair rail to match your wall or the trim. We painted ours to match the trim.
Figure out spacing for your clothes pins -- this lets you know how many clothes pins you'll need to decorate.
Decorate the clothes pins. I had the kids smear the glue on 1 side of a clothes pin and then sprinkle glitter on them. (Add more glitter to the places they miss, if you're particular about the finished look.)
Let the glue dry fully.
Coat the glittered side of the clothes pin with another layer of glue or mod podge. This is optional. I did it to reduce the amount of glitter that would fall off the clothes pins over time and use. Let dry fully.
Measure and mark your chair rail where you want to place the clothes pins.
If doing a pattern -- which my kids insisted on, layout the clothes pins where they should go and make sure you like the look.
Draw a line of glue at each spot and place a clothes pin. Try to get the clothes pins in the same spot on the chair rail -- we left a certain amount of the clothes pin hanging down and off of the chair rail. Let dry fully.
Hang the chair rail. Keep the clothes pins facing down.

Extra Tips:

If you sink your screws, you can cover over them on the chair rail with some putty and paint. I wish we'd done this.
Hang at a height that your kids can add and remove art.
Realize that you're still going to have too much kid art. My husband has already asked us to make a second chair rail for lower down in the same location.
I let the kids use tape to attach more of their art to their bedroom walls. They really like having their own art in their room.

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