The Painted Noodle Revisited

We used the noodles we painted last month to make textured art pictures!

Maise' Mamatoes!

Our crops have come up from our Mother's Day planting and they were very tasty!

Funny Face!

Have you ever rented a helium tank for a party? We did and it came with these awesome face stickers to use. We had a lot left over and Maise is very much into stickers I knew we would put them to use. So we finally did, at first I gave them to her just to mess with and then I asked if she wanted paper. She said yes so I grabbed the floor pad. She then asked me to play. Melt my heart I love my baby!! I sat on the floor and we started playing and she was talking about what the pieces were but with the big blank sheet she was kind of just plopping them down. So I drew two circles/ovals and said "let's make faces". It was fun! Recycle points (leftover product) and time points (we played for a good 30 minutes) and low costs points (didn't need anything new).

The Painted Noodle

What do you do with stale noodles? Well paint them of course! I saw a fun episode of noodle and doodle where they painted macaroni, it looked fun and like something Maise would have liked to do. Although when I decided to do it I just so happened not to have any macaroni noodles so we went for what we had a flat soup noodle. Hey improvising can be fun. This project was only a part one. We will revisit later on with a noodle and glue project this is just the prep work. I think this was a lot of fun. I loved that my daughter was able to be actively involved. Learning points for mixing colors. Recycle points for it actually being a 2 in 1 project as well as a good use of stale food. Savings points for not only costing nothing but actually adding value to a product that could no longer be used! I will do variations of this project in the future most probably the macaroni route so that we could get some awesome jewelry out of the deal!

See you next week for The Glued Noodle!

Tattoo

We could not resist trying out some of the tattoos I bought for my youngest daughters’ 1st birthday party! We are having a Hippy Chic party and we have to have Hippy Girl Tattoos (we are going to have face painting also...just wait!)

These were super easy and very cheap. I think i spent $5.00 on 100 tattoos. We used baby wipes to wet the back of the paper with the tattoo and it worked great and had no mess. You can use a wet cloth or spray bottle but i personally loved that the wipes didn't leave traces of water.

This is a great creative way to play. First my daughter enjoyed separating from the lot of choices, then she liked picking out her designs. She loved the magic of the image being there when we pulled away and she loved showing the tattoo off. The concept was even easy enough that she was able to figure out how to do them on her own.

Creatology Stamps and Ink Pad

Product Review:

Ok she was not ready for the stamp kit yet. Like the light softer paints, the stamp pad was not very bright or inviting. Maise got the concept of the stamps, pad and paper but it did not offer much in the line of creative play. More or less it is what it is as far as a 2 year old is concerned. I had a blast and would love to play more with stamps. I just think I will find a more mommy appropriate kit!

Quick easy clean up and great for on the go!

An Oldie But a Goodie

....just a bit to early for a 2 year old. This was not the most exciting but we gotta try it all! She got bored very fast as this type of paint didn't spread as well as the thicker stuff. We will revisit in a year or so.

Creative Girl Paper Flowers

Product Review:

This is not a super dooper thumbs up, but something I plan to revisit. The kit is actually for a 6 year old as I learned this week sometimes "they" are right about age requirements. Not that I really thought she would be able to create her own flower this round but I expected her to like mixing the papers and picking colors. She did like that for a bit but then continued to just scrunch and tear the tissue paper. But hey that can be fun also; I see a tearing paper project coming soon. I was hoping it would have been super easy but actually seems (at least for us) that we will need some practice. I thought it would be cool to make some flowers for Nessa's 1st Birthday Hippie Chic party. If we get it down you will be seeing lots more flowers in September and if we don't - balloons are always lovely! I hope we get it down because I have tons of tissue paper to recycle. Not that I am a hoarder but I saved all the usable sheets of tissue paper from my baby shower as well as Maise's 1st birthday, Trust me that is a lot of paper.

So for next time I have saved one pattern each of the papers but could probably come up with tons of shapes. You need tissue paper of varying size with detailed edges and some pipe cleaners. (Scissors if you do it from scratch. Layer the sheets largest to smallest then fold like a fan, cinched with a pipe cleaner, meet in a circle at the edges and fluff. Well as you will see it is not as easy as it sounds but we made them for great-grandma and she loved them!

Loew Cornell Foam Brushes

Product Review:

Awesomeness!!! Seriously I thought these would be a bulky mess but worked great and rinsed clean. I used them with paint as you will see in the pictures. I loved the way it blended and even made rainbow swipes. Very cool! I also used them a separate occasion with a bowl of water to create a new and interesting way to play with an aquadoodle. They worked great on the aquadoodle, I actually liked the brushes verses the water pen that came with the kit.

Quesadilla's Maise Style

Not a totally hard project but a project none the less.  I missed some of the prep pictures but it was actually a lot messier than expected! I had a bowl of cheese separated for my 2 year old and a plate with tortillas for her to fill. She was so funny..."Mo Cheese Momma, Mo Cheese." She actually only completed one by herself and she didn't even wait to cook it. The pictures of her eating her immediate masterpiece are fantastic. That was the cheesiest quesadilla ever! I continued the process an let her watch. We heated them up in our George Forman because we rock like that. Seriously if you have a Forman grill think out of the box we use it for so many things. Like French toast, grill cheese, grilled veggies. It is an awesome way to eat healthy and offers easy clean up. Go George!