Rainbow Noodles

How cute are these!! I had a box of flower shaped noodles in the cabinet that had been in there forever so I decided to color them and let Eiz play away. I divided the noodles into plastic bags, added rubbing alcohol and food coloring, and then all you do is Shake Shake Shake!!! Thats it.

I love the way they turned out!

I mixed them with white beans so that the colors would be brighter.

Eiz played with these noodles all weekend.

I also added some bottle caps and pom poms for different textures.

A Book of Colors

Our newest daily activity is a color book. I have an 8x8 scrapbook that I have had for years and now I have put it to use. The last couple of days Eiz has painted 8x8 pieces of paper. We have done red, orange, yellow, and green and today will be blue and purple. Total we will have 10 colors including pink, black, white and brown. That leaves 10 more blank pages in the scrapbook for a number book. :)

Charts and Stickers

We use a lot of stickers in our house. We put them on paper that we are coloring, we put them on our hands, and we use them on charts. A while back I made Eiz a chart for brushing her teeth and going potty. At first I used them on a cork board with tacks which in not a good idea.

This is the very first chart I made for her.

Now we use this for the Potty chart. Its taped on the wall next to the toilet. I dont know if you can see, but Elmo is printed on the bottom. I use this while she sits and I tell her that she needs to show Elmo how to potty. It works almost every time. Once she fills in all the spaces, we will get a new movie or toy. Nothing like a little bribery. :)

Here is her chart for brushing her teeth. It is taped to the wall also, but next to the sink. Yes, we missed brushing Monday night. :(

This chart can be found here... http://www.makinglearningfun.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/Mrs.Wishy/WWtoothbrushChart.gif

Art Display

I have been wanting an art display to put in Eiz room, but couldn't decide how I going to do it. Yesterday while walking around Hobby Lobby I found these cute wooded pegs that I thought would look so cute in the bedroom. I painted them the same color as her hair bow hanger then hung them 15" from the ceiling using black ribbon. I used the same ribbon and tied it from one peg to the other then used alligator clips to hang her pictures. I think it turned out so cute.

I might add another art hanger a

couple of inches below this one.

Letter Y

We are coming to the end of our Alphabet book. It seems like the closer we get to finishing, the slower its taking. We started out doing a letter day. Every morning after breakfast we would grab our cookie sheet and glue, color and paint away. I dont know if we have been busy these last few weeks, or if we just forget. Either way, we are about done!!!

This morning we worked on the letter Y.

Y is for Yellow

and Yarn.

Recycled Bird Feeder

Eiz loves watching bird! When we bought our house there was a really nice bird feeder in the back yard. Because the ground was always to wet for a step ladder we had never put any seed in it. I found an empty pop bottle at work so Eiz and I turned it into a small feeder that we could place closer to the kitchen window.

I didnt have a metal holder the day we made it.

Leftover PVC pipe had to work for a couple of days.

Eiz colored the bottle with permanent markers. Just because it says permanent, doesnt mean that it will keep its color in rain and sunshine. All of the color on ours in now gone. :(

I noticed today that with the rain and warm weather that we have had, our bird seed is actually growing. I cant decide if I want to let it grow and see what it looks like or if I want to fill it with new dry seed.

Coffee Filter Butterflies

While Tanner made dinner the other night, Eiz was into everything. I was trying to come up with things for her to do, but nothing would keep her attention for very long. I decided to strap her in the high chair and make coffee filter butterflies. I didn't have any water colors so I made my own using water and food coloring. You really don't need a whole lot of water or your colors will be to light when they dry. Once you color them and let them dry, add a pipe cleaner for the body and antennas.

We have a nice big window in our kitchen and I love to use it as a display for art that Eiz has made. I hung our butterflies from the curtain rod using fishing string so that they look like they are flying. Sorry the picture is so dark and please don't mind the neighbors backyard. :)

Here is one that was made using water and food coloring. The colors look much brighter once they have dried.

I just used food coloring on this one and the colors are so dark.

Rainbow Cupcakes!

I was looking online a while back and found the cutest cupcakes. Their recipe said to mix a white cake mix with Wiltons icing colors, but I didnt want to dig mine out so I used plain old food coloring. The colors were a little lighter than what I wanted, but they still turned out so neat.

Here are the colors that I ended up using.

Eiz was helping and while I was getting the last bit of orange out of the bowl it went all over her.

Ready for the oven!

Finished product. (They look like Hippie Cupcakes)

The inside was really cool. Because this was the first time I made them I learned that you dont need that much purple. It made the rest of the cupcake really full where you couldn't use as much of the other colors.