Bath Tub Fun

 We made bath paints today!  Super easy and provided fun in the bath tub!  All you need is 1 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch, some baby shampoo (clear/yellow clear in color) and food coloring.  Mix together and you are done!

 The girls LOVED adding the color.  By the way, baby wipes can get almost anything out of skin, counter tops, and flooring haha.  The purple food coloring was splotched right between Laura's eyes.

 I did a massive bleach cleaning of the mildew in our tub the night before--lovely right?!?  Anyways, we were in need of new bath toys, so I headed to Walmart the day before and grabbed anti-microbial and anti-odor sponges.

We cut that them in shapes and letters.  It was the cheapest bath toy ever, which is great because Pete and I frequently have to throw out bath toys....

Oh and the best part was that they used the sponges to clean up their mess in the tub when they were done!  We just used these paints for one bath, but you could buy the tiny Gladware containers and store them for a couple of days for extended bath fun!

I tried it, take 2! Sticky Paint

This idea is genius and delicious!  What is there not to like about sweetened condensed milk???  This paint is made in a muffin tin with the sweet stuff and food coloring!  I had to slap my own hand from trying to eat the paint--what am I back in kindergarten???

They had so much fun painting!  When it dries, it has a wet look to it.  I originally saw this idea on Pinterest and the pinner said that this was mess-free....uh not so much.  At least not when you do it with toddlers.  Come to think of it, what is mess free when toddlers are involved?  There was actually a good deal of mess but since the paint is think it pretty much stuck to that drop cloth.  I would be careful doling it in a carpeted area.  ( Our carpet is on its way out the door, so I didn't care. :) )

Sorry for the dizzy picture but picture manager didn't allow me to alter this for some reason, but I did want to show how cool it was that they mixed colors in the extra muffin wells.

Overall it was a great idea and I am glad that I tried this pin.  Super cheap, since a can of the milk costs about $1.99 and the kids love the feel (and taste-I let them try it prior to coloring it) of it!

Caroline's Birthday: Fairy Wands!

In going with the Abby Cadabby theme, fairy wands were a must for party favors!  We made these pretty cheaply and they took about and hour to make 9.  They even turned out to be a hit with the boys!

They take just a few supplies:

• a roll of tulle (get the kind in the bridal department at Michael's or Joann's-it's already 6 or 7 inches in width)
• string
• dowels (Home Depot will cut the 3 foot dowels for you into 12 inch wands--only $0.80 a dowel and you get 3 wands from 1 dowel!)
• various notions, I used the $1 bin ric rac and ribbon
• Hot Glue Gun
• glitter and mod podge for decorating the dowel (optional)

I started by decoupaging the dowels, although this is totally optional.  They would look cute without this step.

Once the dowels are dry, cut the tulle into 7 four inch strips.  Fold the strips accordion style and tie string the in the middle and fluff your layers out.  ( Remember those tissue paper flowers we used to make in elementary school??  Same technique!)

Take your hot glue gun and glue random strips of ribbon, ric rac, or anything else that you want to hang from the wand.  I thought about taking some of their broken play necklaces and using those but we unfortunately were attached to them.... ( Really???)  Glue the notions to the tip top of the dowel.

Once the notions are secure, hot glue the tulle puff to the top!  Ok now that I am typing out the instructions, they sounds like a lot of work--but trust me they are totally worth it!  The kids played with the all evening!

Now you have awesome fairy wands, wizard wands, whatever you want to call them!  They are great for dress up or a good game of chase.  :)

Yes they are in their jammies.  Yes that is a lollipop hanging from her mouth........No, they didn't have lollipops for breakfast that day, but they got one when they finished--hey sometimes it's not worth the fight.