The LONG over due post!

The last two and a half weeks was full of just about everything. This is the first chance I've had to post. The first idea I tried was making an Easter Egg wreath. I saw this really cute idea online where you wrap pastic eggs with yarn. I managed to do TWO!

 

It took so long and so much glue (not to mention quite a few burned fingers) that I gave up. They didn't look nearly as cute as the ones online. So I wrapped the wreath frame in yarn instead. I haven't decided if I am going to ad to it yet or not.

The next thing I did was a success! I made Oatmeal Crème Pie Truffles. All you need is a box of Oatmeal Crème Pies, a pkg. of cream cheese, and chocolate to coat.

 

The first thing you do is pulse the pies in a food processor. Mine is a tiny little thing and I could only fit two or three pies in at a time. It was quite fun!

 

 

 

Then I mixed in the cream cheese. I used my hands for this.

 

Next, I placed the batter in balls on a lined cookie sheet. I placed this sheet in the freezer for about 15 min.

 

While the truffles were in the freezer, I melted the chocolate. I did not have a lot so I mixed in a little nutella (YUM).

 

Then I rolled the truffles in the chocolate and put them back in the freezer for a while. After they had hardened they could go in the refrigerator. If they got left out, they started to melt. J

 

The next few things I made for my class of three-year-olds at work.

 The first thing I tried was “Smash Balls”. These are cotton balls that have been dipped in a flour and water solution (I dyed mine blue).

 

Then you bake them at 325 for 45 min.

 

Then next step is to peel them off the foil. (If I didn’t use the foil, I don’t think that they would have come off the pan. These did NOT turn out the way they looked on Pinterest. I decided not to use them.

 

Instead, I am going to use colored rice. To color the rice, I mixed 1 ½ cups rice with 1tablespoon of vinegar and the desired amount of food coloring. I mixed it in a zip top bag until I realized that I was not going to be able to get all of the rice back out without getting covered in food coloring. I switched to using an old mayo jar. This I could scrape out with a spatula and not get too messy. Then I spread the rice out on a foil lined cookie sheet and baked for 10 at 175.

 

 

 

After I baked the rice I wanted to mix the different colors up and put it all in an off brand zip top bag. As I was doing this the next picture shows what happened! Ooops!!

Here is a picture of it in use:

 

Next comes what I like to call: “Sparkle Gel Tracing Bags”. I took a zip top bag and put blue hair gel and glitter inside and taped the tops shut really good.

 

 The kiddos used these to trace letters in the gel (and not get sticky!).

 

 

 

Another fun thing that I did was “Spaghetti Brooms”. These are pieces of spaghetti that I tied together before cooking them.

 

 

Then the kiddos painted with them.

 

Some took them a part and just played with the lose noodles in the paint.

 

 

Another activity we did this week was "Color Fizzies." This is a pan full of bakimg soda that the kids drop colored vinegar into.