Moon Fun

from: picture from pinterest

Have some fun with your kids tonight.  Search for props inside your house and creatively dream up some scenarios.  You don't need to take a table outside, but the scissors are a pretty great idea.  Strategically place your kids, with various props, to make fun pictures with the moon.

Have them hold the moon

Have them cut the moon with scissors

Prop them on a box so they can rest lay on the moon with their arms and head

Hit the moon with a bat, as they are hitting a baseball

Hold the moon in a basket

Sweep the moon out of the sky with a broom

The possibilities are endless!  Please share your ideas or experiences below.

Burger King: $1 Fruit Smoothies

This Labor Day weekend, don't forget your $1 smoothies from Burger King.

(Friday - Monday) 

Absorbing Science

from:  allforkids.tv

(This is only Step 6 of a series of absorbing tests.  If you want pictures and instructions for all 6, click here.)

Step 6

Ok let’s go wild and fill 2 cups with water, add blue dye to one cup and yellow dye to the other.  Put an empty cup in between them.  Roll 2 paper towels. Place the end of one towel into the blue dye and one end of the other towel in the yellow dye.  Bend both the towels and put the loose ends into the empty cup and watch the magic happen.  As the coloured water is absorbed in the towel it makes its way up and then into the empty cup.  The blue and yellow food dyes combine making green water.  How amazing is that! Like our experiments science is absorbing and I give it 10 out of 10!

Yummy Little Piglets

from: recipe & pictures from cafechocolada.blogspot.com

If you like easy, like me, I would just get premade pizza dough and make these piglets as little biscuits.  However, if you prefer the actual recipe, it is below...

(Makes about 20 piglets)
Dough:
400 g (13 1/2 oz) all purpose flour
1 package instant dry yeast
1 egg
2 dcl (7 oz) plain yogurt
1 dcl (3 1/2 oz) warm milk
a pinch of salt

Puffed or flaky dough:150 g (5 1/2 oz)flour
100 g (3 1/2 oz)magarine (unsalted)
pinch of salt

Filling:As much as you like: cheese(she used Gouda), tomato (pizza) sauce, oregano;
or something else you would like for filling

Wash:Egg white to use as «adhesive»
Egg yolk and some milk to brush @ the end

First, make first dough by mixing all ingrediens, and let it rise in a warm place. In the meantime, make puff dough with second batch of ingredients, and then mix it into the risen dough (yes, mix'em together), and work it well on a floured surface. Roll the dough and with a round cookie cutter or something else cut out circles about 3 inches in diametar or desired size. Leave some dough for ears and noses :)

Make filling with cheese, tomato sauce (pizza sauce), and oregano. You can be creative and use different kinds of ingredients to make a filling of your own. You can also add ham, or salami, or vegetables.

Place half of circles onto baking sheet (aligned with parchment paper), brush edges with egg white wash. Put some filling in the middle, cover with other half of circles, and press the edges to assure nothing will come out while baking.

Remainder of the dough use to make smaller circles for nose, and for ears by cutting them into quarters. Use egg whites wash as «adhesive» for ears and nose. For nose make somewhat smaller circles. For eyes and nostrils use a toothpick to make little lines and then inside, put cumin, pepper or something similar.

Now that you have little piglets, let them rise again for a little while, and then brush them with a little bit of egg yolk wash mixed with a little bit of milk. Bake for about 20-25 min. @ about 385-405 F.

My note: you can use something else for the eyes if you are concerened about kids biting into peppercorns. Oblakica didn'tuse peppercorns, but other herbs. My kids just took the peppercorns out.

Hungry, Hungry Frogs

from:  picture and article from familyfun.go.com

Materials

 

• Paper plates
• Painting supplies
• Red pipe cleaners
• hot glue gun or glue dots
• Lightweight, strong magnets
• Black marker
• Tape
• Black tissue paper
• Paper clips
• Tacky glue
• Hungry, Hungry Frog Template (Click Here)

Instructions

1. For each frog puppet, paint two paper plates green and let them dry. Using our template (above) as a guide, cut the top of the frog and its eyes and feet from the green plates. Cut the bottom piece from a third plate.
2. For a tongue, twist two pipe cleaners together, folding over one end and curling the other into two spirals, as shown. Staple them to the frog bottom. Attach a lightweight, strong magnet (ours are about 1/2 inch wide) to the end of the tongue with glue dots or hot glue.
3. Staple the eyes to the frog top, draw eyeballs with black marker, and fold the eyes up. Cover the underside of the staples with tape. Leaving the back open for a hand, staple together the frog top and bottom. Add the back feet.
4. To make flies, roll 1- by 3-inch strips of black tissue paper around bent paper clips and secure the paper with tacky glue.
5. To play, scatter the flies on a table. At "Go," players use their frog's magnetic tongue to catch as many flies as they can - pulling them off the tongue with their free hand - and collect them in a pile. When all the fl ies are caught, see who has the most. (Be sure to supervise small children around small magnets.)

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How to Teach Kids the Books of the Bible

from:  "Bible Books" song by Bigsby and from YouTube

Here is a fun way to help teach your kids the books of the Bible; through a song!