Fun Friday

Scented Water color:

1 TBL warm water
1 pkg. Kool-Aid

Mix these together and get a yummy smelling paint that still smells when dry. You can make all kinds of colors and smells!

Fun Friday

Texas Snowflakes

Here's directions for a yummy dessert that I made for my family Christmas night. I call them Texas snowflakes.



You will need:

clean scissors

flour tortillas ( The uncooked kind are the best. I have found these at Costco and Walmart.)

Oil for frying

Cinnamon & sugar mixture

powdered sugar

ice cream (optional)


Fold the tortilla into fourths. This works best if they are room temp. Then let the kids cut out triangles around the edge like they would for a paper snowflake. Unfold the tortilla and fry it in a frying pan with about an inch of hot cooking oil. *only the adults should do this part. the oil is very hot. Turn the tortilla once while frying. It will fry very quickly.


Remove the tortilla and place it on paper towels. Sprinkle it with cinnamon & sugar mixture and powdered sugar. We placed a dip of vanilla ice cream on ours. My daughter called it the snowball.

Fun Friday

12 Days of Christmas Game

For our homeschool christmas party I made a 12 days of Christmas game. It was pretty easy to do.

I printed out the numbers 1-12 and then each of the things in the song, calling birds, drummers drumming, etc. You'll need 2 copies of each of those. Then I cut out the printed words and glued them to index cards that I cut in half. You can just write them on the index cards if you want.

I wanted to be able to use the game again so I laminated everything and put velcro on each of the posters and slips with the things printed on them. You could just use tape. I cut a poster board in half so I'd have 2. I glued the numbers to one side of each of the poster boards. Then I laminated it. Then I put one half of a velcro circle on the poster board and the other half on one of the slips of index card.

We had 2 teams of kids racing to see who could get the items in the song in the correct order the fastest. I had 2 posters so I put a picture of a snowman above one and a picture of a reindeer above the other so their teams were the "snowmen" vs. the "reindeer". I had 2 people standing at the posters with the correct answers so they could tell the kids if they were correct or not. If not, they had to keep moving the card around until they got it right. They had lots of fun!

Here is the finished product of the snowman team:

This is a close up of one of the posters so you can see how I did it.

Fun Friday

Here is a recipe for play dough. There is no cooking involved. Very easy & lots of fun! Remember to supervise children with the hot water and let it set for a few minutes to cool before playing with it.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of cream of tartar

1 tablespoon of oil
1 cup of boiling water
food coloring

Add oil and food coloring to water prior to mixing. Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and then mix vigourously with the hot water.

Note: the oil is yellow so if you add blue food coloring the dough will be a greenish-blue.

You can store this in an airtight container or zipper bag. One recipe makes enough for 2-3 kids.

The picture is some we made. The specs in it are from my daughter mixing it with our regular play doh!