This is about one of the easiest treats you can make....and let me say they are awesome, the perfect combination of salty and sweet! Here is what you need: pretzels white chocolate chips green sprinkles wax paper Melt your white chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second intervals. If you attempt to melt it all at once they will burn (trust me). Toss your pretzels into the melted white chocolate. Remove the pretzels with a fork and tap off the excess. Set them on the wax paper in groups of three (make sure they ARE touching) Sprinkle each clover with green sprinkles and ENJOY! … [Read more...]
Lucky Clover Hats
By
Here's a simple and fun craft just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Here is what you will need: paper plate marker scissors Draw three hearts and a stem (to make the shape of a clover) Have your child color in the clover (my son insisted on making a yellow one) Once it is cut out they can wear it as a hat! Super simple and fun! Twin Cities Readers: Click HERE to enter to win tickets to the Old Chicago VIP Re-Opening event on Saturday, March 5th at 5:00 pm. … [Read more...]
Leprechaun Hunt
By
We went on a Leprechaun hunt the other day. It wasn't anything fancy but they really enjoyed it. It ended up costing me a whopping 99cents! I bought a package of lucky clover stickers at the store a week ago for 99cents and cut them up into separate stickers. I gave each child their own piece of paper to collect the stickers on too. When they went down for a little rest time the sneaky Leprechaun left stickers all over the house, silly little guy! I made sure to tell him that he needed to leave the same amount of stickers for each child (to avoid an argument.) They loved running through the house looking for stickers. Some were pretty easy to find and some were really hard. I actually forgot where they all ended up so the hunt lasted quite a long time. All in all they each collected 6 stickers. I loved listening to their stories along the way. I heard a lot of encouraging each other, a lot of congratulations for finding one and a few "that silly Leprechaun" comments. I think … [Read more...]
Fun Stuff Fridays (#13)
By
Remember when Linkys were all the rage in blogging? They were a great way to find and get to know other bloggers before social media and Pinterest became mainstream. It didn’t hurt that they brought a ton of traffic to your site too. Lindsi and I started our Fun Stuff Fridays linky back in 2011. We kept it going for 20 weeks before it fizzled out (or we got sick of doing it, I’m not sure which happened). It is now soon to be 2017 and at lot of the links in those linkies no longer exist. Plus, I’ve let my link up subscription lapse so you can’t get to them anyway. Instead of deleting the Fun Stuff Fridays posts, however, I have decided to clean them up and make sure our featured links are still valid. After all, on a rare occasion I get traffic from one of these old posts. The linky may be gone but the featured posts are still valid as of December 2016… Welcome to Fun Stuff Fridays. We had 305 submissions last week! Ohmigosh! Do you wonder if we look at them all....and the … [Read more...]
Egg Carton School Buses
By
The Wheels On The Bus- It's a song we all know, right? Well I saw these hanging in the classroom of my middle son. I couldn't resist sharing with you how to make them because they are SO adorably cute! Here is what you will need Egg carton Yellow paint Black marker Have your child(ren) paint the egg carton in a school bus yellow color.Water color paints don't work very well because the color doesn't dry very bold and it leaves the bus looking blah! Let the "bus" dry over night so that it is read for the wheels and label tomorrow. Color two black circles on the egg carton and write SCHOOL BUS on the top. I couldn't help but fall in love with the way these adorable buses were displayed. It would take us a while to save enough egg cartons to make an entire mobile but nonetheless it was worth making! Hope you will make some buses with your kiddos and will share with us how they went! … [Read more...]
Ooey gooey Caramel Rolls
By
I will admit (for my mom) that I didn't get a lot of home cooked meals growing up. My mom wasn't really a fan of the kitchen (I think she got one cause it came with the house.) One thing I do remember were her AWESOME caramel rolls. One of the companies no longer makes one of the ingredients so I searched the web for a suitable replacement and tweaked it to make it even better! Here is what you will need to make Ooey Gooey Caramel Rolls 2C warm water (do not use HOT) 2T yeast 1/2C sugar 1 tsp salt 1/2 stick of butter (softened at room temperature) 1 large egg 6 1/2C flour (divided) 1C sugar and 1/4C cinnamon mixed together Caramel 1 1/2C packed brown sugar 3T water 1 1/2 sticks of butter 2- pans for baking Mix warm water and yeast into a bowl and let ferment for 5 minutes. Then add sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 2 cups flour to yeast and water. Mix well. Add remaining flour (4 1/2 cups) to mixture and mix until well incorporated. If the dough is still sticky then … [Read more...]
