Kids Craft: Bottom of My Heart

Good Afternoon Loves!

I want to share this wonderful craft we did with my daughter's Girl Scout troop this past week. I had something else planned to post today but this was too stinkin cute NOT to post!

PLEASE FORGIVE MY DAUGHTER'S HANDWRITING!

She's extremely intelligent- just doesn't believe that others should have to read what she writes LOL!

"From the bottom of my heart...

To the tips of my toes...

I Love You!"

The she added her own little thing at the bottom telling me I am a great mom (well DUH!) and Love, Brooklyn. (that's rare for me to use her actual name on here but I needed to post the picture for an example.)

This was a Mother's Day gift for me and for the other girls moms as well. 

Super simple to do.

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Need:

*Thick Card Stock or Canvas

*Paint

*Pencil/Marker/Pen

Directions:  

*Have the child write across the top: "From the bottom of my heart"

*Paint the child's hands for them. Just a little bit of paint is needed on one hand and they can gently rub their hands together to equally coat them in whatever paint color they chose. 

*Turn the paper upside down (the words will be closer to their body upside down so they can't "read" it at this time.)

*Place one hand down on the paper firmly and lift straight up when you feel that hand has been imprinted on the paper evenly. 

*Carefully place the opposite hand on the paper so that the fingers will overlap with the paint fingers already on the paper. Lift straight up when done pressing this hand as well.

((This should leave you with an upside down heart, twist the paper around so you can read the words and have the heart correct too.))

*WASH CHILD'S HANDS OR USE A WET WIPE TO REMOVE PAINT FROM HANDS*

*Under the heart have child write: "To the tips of my toes...."

*Help the child wipe the foot clean and dry thoroughly. 

*Evenly coat with paint

*Help child press the foot evenly on to the paper, pressing firmly to get the entire foot on the paper.

*Lift straight up to remove the foot from the paper.

*WASH CHILD'S FOOT OR USE A WET WIPE TO REMOVE PAINT FROM FOOT*

*Next to the foot painted on the paper, have the child write: "I Love You!"

 **ALLOW TO DRY THOROUGHLY BEFORE GIVING AS A GIFT**

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This project took our Girl Scout troop less than 15 minutes to complete and roughly about 10 minutes to dry since we just used acrylic paint.

I received mine for Mother's Day, but this gift would be great for:

*Valentine's Day- February 14th

*Father's Day- June 16th

 *Grandparent's Day- September 8th

*Christmas- December 25th

*Caregiver's Birthdays

*Teacher Appreciation

**Please bare in mind that I am Baptist and do not know too many other religious Holidays that this could be given out at. Take it and make it your own though!!

Happy Crafting!

-SC

Crayola Sidewalk 15-Piece Chalk Tray, JUST $2.99

 

Spring is just around the corner and at my house that means more time spent outside! Right now, Amazon has a great deal on Crayola Sidewalk 15-Piece Chalk Tray for only $2.99 (a $15.99 value). This would be perfect to add to your little one's Easter basket or just to have on hand for playtime. I may even buy a few extra and keep them on hand as birthday gifts or to donate!

My three year old daughter and three year old nephew love drawing on the driveway with chalk. My ten year old neice loves it as well...although she would never admit it!

This is an 81% savings and if you are an Amazon Prime member or place an order for $25.00 or more your order will ship for FREE!

For more information about Amazon Prime which includes FREE 2 day shipping CLICK HERE.

As always... HAPPY SAVINGS!
-Heather

 

TARGET: Cheap Play-Doh!

Are you still looking for Easter basket fillers, gifts to have on hand for birthdays, or maybe your kids just LOVE Play-Doh? Target has a great deal going right now thanks to a temproary price cut!

Target has 10 count packs of Play-Doh on sale for just $3.99!

Combine this sale with the printable $1/1 coupon HERE and score an awesome deal.

Final Price: $2.99 or just $0.30 per container!

Happy Couponing!
-Heather

Kid's Allergy Bracelets

Does your little one suffer from allergies? They can be really scary! If you have a child that suffers from allergies head over to Zulily's website and check out their absolutely adorable allergy bracelets. Prices start at $8.99 and this sale ends on 02/28/2013.

This is a great way to protect your child while still helping them look cool while wearing an allergy bracelet that could save their life!

HURRY... CLICK HERE now!

Let us know if you take advantage of this great offer!
-Heather

First!! (Giveaway Closed)

GIVEAWAY!!!

Let me start with a quick review!

I absolutely love Build-a-Bear! My kids have at least 30+ at my last count- not to mention I have about 5 myself. (Plus some I want that haven't got yet!) My kids get one every year for Christmas, and usually one for their birthdays. The ones they get to make on their own are usually their favorites. In case you don't know how it works let me enlighten you.

First you pick out the "skin" of your animal that you would like- it looks similar to this but sometimes they change the animals out or have specific "collectors" for a limited time. 

Then you stuff it- this is one of my favorite parts- the kids get to step on a pedal and with the help from a build-a-bear employee they fluff their animal to their liking. They get to pick out a heart and do all sorts of cool things to it to make it a "real" heart for their new friend. 


Then they "bath" their new friend with a brush and a some high powered fans to knock off extra fur. Then the clothes- oh boy the clothes! So many choices- this is what takes the longest for me & my kiddos!

The clothes also change from time to time but the classics stay all year round!

Naming your bear can be difficult- it takes a lot of special thought from you or your little one- but it's well worth it in the end when you receive the birth certificate for your special bear so he or she can go home with you as YOUR new friend (or baby as my daughter says).

I'm there so often I take advantage of the deals they run around holidays where for $5 you can get a $10 gift card. As my first giveaway I will give that out!

You can also use this card online at the build-a-bear website! Check that out HERE! 

To enter the $10 gift card giveaway:

1)Comment letting me know you follow my blog (use the link on the right to follow with google)

2) Share this post on your Facebook or Twitter (or both) & comment back letting me know you posted!

((PLEASE put an email address so that I can contact you if you win- THANKS))

**Max 3 entries per person (follow, facebook, twitter)

**This review & giveaway was not paid for nor was I asked to do this from build-a-bear. I genuinely just wanted to do something special for reaching 1,000 views. All opinions are mine!
**Contest will END on July 18, 2012 @ 12noon EST (East Coast)
**Random.org will choose the winner & I will post the picture when it has chosen.

THANK YOU!! 

Snow is Evil

Just thought that was an appropriate title for this post since it has snowed ever since Thursday night and quite frankly I hate snow. I hate weather below 55* actually. Moving on...

Today was a mess, I was exhausted because at 3:37am I was awaken by a text message from our local weather station informing us of a "winter weather advisory," thank you captain obvious!! Then about 2 1/2 hours later we were startled by what sounded like a baby crying. After deep searching we realized it was 2 cats going at it on our back porch! Omg, pick a different house or be quiet!! Lol!

The Princess had a Cheerleading thing this morning, she did really well and even led a side line cheer that she had never done in front of a crowd before. I was so proud!!

My boys haven't been feeling so great today, that's stressful enough in itself.

I must end this post now though, I just received a disturbing phone call...

Big Day

Well, it was a big day for my kids anyway! 

On Friday morning the Princess busts into my room to tell me that her FIRST TOOTH has come out! (It's about time, it's only been loose for a couple of months now lol). It was SO EXCITING, she felt like such a big girl when that happened! I was extremely happy for her...

 

Then...

Nicholas woke up finally, after hours and hours of sleeping, and he had a COMPLETELY dry diaper from the night before and he went STRAIGHT to the potty and HE USED THE BIG BOY POTTY! This was VERY exciting to both him AND me! Diapers are old news to this mommy, we're ready for big boy underwear now!

It was a very exciting Friday in our house!



***UPDATE! The day that I posted this blog, Princess came home with ANOTHER tooth out, the one right next to the first one that came out! lol! She's rocking the toothless look!***

Lunch Time Feeding Frenzy

At my house my kids get 3 meals a day, 1 snack (sometimes 2), and desert if they finish all of their dinner & all of their lunch. So would someone like to tell me why Lunch Time at my house is like a herd of cattle that haven't eaten in days?

It starts with Princess and her constant "I'm hungry" followed shortly behind Bubby saying "fooood." On weekends that we have Wyatt you will hear this small voice from the back of the crowd saying "i want food too" which usually gets drowned out by BB squalling for his mid day jar of food and bottle.

Keep in mind that Pork Chop is at work during the day and I'm at home alone!

So naturally my kids can't do anything simple, so, they all want something different to eat! I'm rushed to make hot dogs for this one, a sandwich for this one, and pizza rolls for this one... all while trying to mix a bottle and make the baby's food warm.

It all gets done and they're acting like they're starving to death, I pour drinks and set their plates and cups on the table. Aaahhhhh.... time to feed to baby and be done with lunch... ummm NOPE not in my house! I feed the baby a whole 15 minutes, he's done, he takes his bottle and goes down for a nap. I return to the kitchen just to see two bites out of a sandwich, one pizza roll consumed, and maybe half a hot dog gone... WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE?!?!?!

They were starving to death just 15 minutes ago, why does it take so long to eat that little? What was the screaming for food all about? Really? I mean you could just say "hey mom I'm hungry, can we have lunch" and not act like you're dying. 

They had breakfast around 9am, they ask for lunch and I gave it to them a few hours later at 12pm, they will have a handful of Cheez-Nips or a few Vanilla Wafers at around 3pm, and won't eat again until almost 6:30pm, why don't they just throw fits over dinner? There's a bigger break there, you would think they would be more hungry then- apparently not though, my kids are odd.

Well I have rather enjoyed ranting about their lunch habits, now I must clean up from lunch!