Easy Recipe Holder

Easy Recipe Holder

Here's what you'll need...

• 16 craft sticks

• 2 clothespins

• Glue

• Paint and brush

• Foam Stickers (optional)

• Recipe card or paper

Here's how you make it...

1. Paint your craft sticks and clothes pins, any color you wish!

2. Once the paint is dry, place your clothespins beside each other a few inches apart. Put glue along each clothespin and glue 8 craft sticks on one side, and 8 craft sticks on the other side.

3. Once the glue is dry it is time to decorate your recipe holder. We used foam flower stickers, which you can buy for $1-$2 at a craft or discount department store. Use any decorations you have, paint something or just leave it as is.

4. Now it's time to write out your special "recipe".

Mother's Day Flower Pots

 Mother's Day Flower Pots


Materials:

• Newspaper
• Acrylic paint
• Flower pots
• Paper Plate
• Paintbrushes

Directions:

1. Lay newspapers over your work area in case of spills.
2. Lay out colors of paint you want to use on a paper plate.
3. Paint flower pot a solid color.
4. Write a special message to mom or paint designs and pictures on the flower pot with your fingers or a paintbrush.
5. Go a step further and plant a flower in your hand-painted flower pot for your mother.

Homemade Lip Gloss

                                           

Invite your kids to make her own flavored lip gloss from simple ingredients you have around the house.
 

You Need:
 

	Vaseline
	Unsweetened Kool-Aid or any flavored drink mix: If you want blue lips, go for the grape-flavored stuff. Cherry-flavored Kool-Aid will give your kid a tasty red lips.
	Vanilla extract
	Cocoa powder
	A small mixing bowl
	A spoon: For mixing
	Measuring spoons
	Microwave
	Cake decorating glitter: To add a little sparkle.
	A container for the lip gloss: Find them at your local craft or beauty supply shop. You may want to pick up a dozen or so. Soda or water bottle caps can also make cool lip gloss containers if you don't plan on carrying them around with you.
	Paper or stickers: For a label
	Food coloring

Directions:

	1. Have her decide what flavor of lip gloss she wants to make before she starts mixing things together.
	2. To start, have her put some Vaseline into a (microwavable) mixing bowl and microwave it for about two minutes—until it's a liquid. Try not to let it boil!
	3. If she's making chocolate gloss, have her add cocoa powder to the base and mix and stir it up to get rid of any lumps. She should add as little or as much powder as she wants, keeping in mind the more she adds, the darker the tint will be.
	4. Then have her return the mixture to the microwave for another 20 seconds and then stir again.
	5. If she wants to make vanilla flavored lip gloss, instead of heating the Vaseline in the mixing bowl, just have her add a tiny amount of vanilla extract to it (like 1/8 teaspoon for every 2 tablespoons of Vaseline).
	6. To make blue lip gloss, warm the Vaseline in the microwave for about 20 seconds, then stir in some blueberry Kool-Aid.
	7. She can now stir in food coloring to tint her lip gloss or add cake glitter to make it sparkle.
	8. Finally, get her to pour or scrape the mixture into the lip gloss containers and let it cool. (If you've been using the microwave, be careful, it'll be hot!)
	9. When she's finished making the lip gloss, have her make some labels for it. She can print or draw a label on paper and stick it on with a glue stick or print or draw one on a sticky blank address label. She can dress her gloss up with stickers, too!

Homemade lip gloss makes a great gift for your kid's girlfriends. Do this at your kid's next birthday party. An activity and party favor all in one!

Easter Egg Nest

Easter Egg Nest (oops wrong date on camera should be 04/19/2011)

Egg Carton supplies
egg carton
green paint and brush
easter grass
green crepe paper roll
glue

How-to
1. Cut out groups of 4 adjacent cups of the egg cartons. Keep the cups attached together.
2. Paint the cups green inside and out. Set aside and let dry.
3. Cut Easter grass into smaller pieces. Drizzle glue inside all of the cups, then sprinkle the grass pieces inside (to make a nest affect) of about 3/4 of the way up.
4. Measure the crepe paper around the outside of the nest and cut a little longer. Cut 3 of these. Apply glue around the outside of the top rim and glue one crepe paper piece in place ( like a skirt). Glue the 2nd an inch or so above the rim. Glue the 3rd piece even with the second (right on top)
5. Cut small slits on the top of the crepe paper to make (grass) all around the four sides. Pull apart the two layers and fluff out.
6. Fill the nest with Easter goodies.

We put inside two painted  plastic easter eggs and chocolate covered  chicks and  bunny peeps. See the cholcolate covered peeps post to make these.

Easter egg holders

Easter Egg Holder  and egg made by Kylie  (oops date is wrong on camera- should be 04/19/2011)

Supplies
egg carton
sissors
paint
glue

How-to:
-Cut the egg carton into (cups).
-Round the edges with sissors so the top is even or cut like a wave.
-Paint the egg cup inside and out. Leave to dry. Once dried, glue the two bottoms together.
-We tied a ribbon around the middle.
Now it is ready to display your egg.

The egg in the holder that is  in this picture is made from  a plastic Easter egg that was painted.

This project was made by my 7 year old niece Kylie. She did a great job.