Winter activity frozen colourful balls of ice

This was a fun activity that I did with eloise. To teach her that water freezes and that outside is cold enough to freeze water. It makes a great out doors decoration for the winter time. These are very cool to watch melt too. Eloise enjoyed making these. The filling of the balloons was fun. We ended up having a water fight which was fun and it was a great memory made

What you will need:                               

Balloons.
Food Colour
Water
freezer or outdoor
rubber gloves












Instructions:

1)put a drop or two of one colour  into a balloon 

2) next fill balloon with water

3) repeat first two directions with different colours of food colour


4) next put in freezer or out side to freeze for a couple hours

5) next cut balloon off the frozen ball


6) enjoy seeing them decorate your yard and melt 


7) use rubber gloves to remove the balloon to avoid your hands from staining and when filling balloons.

sensory felt wall winter theme

With Christmas approaching I decided to share this awesome sensory activity. I made eloise last year for so that she wouldn't play with my actual Christmas tree. While pulling out my decorations this week I came across these felt wall activity's and put them up right away. Since putting them up eloise has been playing with the tree one for hours. I also put one up at my boyfriends house his daughter is in love with the snow man and plays for hours with it. This activity is for kids any age I made it when eloise was 1 years old and now at 2 1/2 she still loves it.  Brayden and Evelyn who are 5/6 love these wall activity's. Very simple and easy to make the kids will love playing with these. Felt wall activity's make great kid friendly Christmas decorations.

what you will need :

large blue sheet of felt (background)
Large green sheet of felt (tree)
large white sheet of felt (snowman)
 multiple colours of sheets of felt (ornaments )
brown felt (snowman arms) 
scissors
fabric glue
                                                              

 Instructions:



Tree:

1)  draw cut out the shape of a Christmas tree on the large sheet of green

2)  glue the tree onto the large blue sheet of felt

3)  cut out a tree skirt in any colour you want and glue it onto the blue felt under the tree

4) cut out a star fro the top of the tree and glue it on

5) choose colours of felt and draw ornaments then cut them out

6) cut out shapes to glue onto ornaments to decorate the ornaments

7) glue ornaments together and let dry 

8) cute out presents and bows to put under the tree

9)  hang up the tree on a wall when dry and then let kids decorate the tree

Snowman:

1)  draw and cut out 3 circles on large white sheet of felt make sure they are tree different sizes 

2)  glue the circles onto the large sheet of blue felt

3) next draw and cut out two branches on brown felt for arms

4) cut out circles for coal to make eyes and a mouth

5) cut out a carrot shape for a nose

6) next cut out any shape you want to use for buttons I used hearts.

7) next choose two or 3 colours to use as a scarf draw and cut out and glue together

8) draw a hat and cut it out if wanted make accessories for the hat and glue them onto the hat

9) let everything dry and then hang up the background with the snowman body on it

10) let kids make the snowman what ever way they want they can take it apart and rebuild him

apple crisp

What you will need:
Base:
6 apples
2 tbsp ground cinnamon

Topping:
2/3 cup all purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups quaker oats
2/3 cup melted butter
(extra cinnamon if you like)






Directions

(1) peel and core apples then slice into eighths or  sixteenths

(2) place apple slices into the bowl with cinnamon gently toss and coat in cinnamon then place in a casserole pan

(3) mix the flour and brown sugar in a bowl then add in oats 

(4) next mix the topping in bowl you can add extra cinnamon if wanted I always do

(5) next melt butter and pour it over the topping mixture and mix well

(6)sprinkle topping over the apples evenly

(7) bake at 350 for 30 minutes

(8)serve warm or at room temperature with ice cream or whip cream 


you can use this recipe to make peach crisp or rhubarb crisp just switch out the cinnamon for nutmeg.  

white chocolate and candy corn cookies

What you will need:

1 large egg
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup brown sugar , light packed
1/4 cup white sugar
1 pinch salt
2 tsp corn starch 
1 tbsp vanilla
1 cup  white chocolate chips
 1/2 cup butter unsalted
2 tbsp cream or half and half
1  1/2 cups candy corn


Directions:

(1)combine butter sugar,brown sugar ,salt corn starch, baking soda and egg in a bowl

(2) mix with a mixer till fully mixed then add in cream and vanilla and mix

(3)next mix in the flour till fully blended

(4) next with a spoon add in the chocolate chips and candy corn

(5) mix well to get the candy corn and chocolate chips all through the mixture

(6)then on a greased cookie sheet drop spoonful's of the batter 

(7)bake for 8-10 minutes  at 350

(8)let cool before removing from pan 

(9)serve and enjoy

fall sensory bin

What you need:                                      

popcorn kernels 

pine cones

leafs

chestnuts

gourds( mini pumpkins)





for playing you can use : measuring cups/spoons , ice cube try, small bowls even a toilet paper roll ton fill up with stuff can be used in the bin.


Instructions:

(1) Place corn kernels into the bin

(2) then add the pine cones

(3) next add in chestnuts 

(4) next you can add in some leafs as many as you want 

(5) last add in one or two gourds depending on what will fit in the bin you use

 Things to do with the bin you can get child to sort the pine cone from big to small
sort out each item like the leafs , pine cones, chestnut and gourds. Other ways to use the bin to learn would be to use a ice cube try , bowls or measuring cups and fill each with a different amount to teach depth. eloise loved using a spoon to fill a toilet paper roll with the kernels in the bin. this is one of Eloise's favourite things to play with she chooses this bin over her other ones. 


  

glow in the dark sensory bottle

What you will need:                                                               
                                                               
 a clear  bottle with lid


blue glitter glue


1 cup water



blue glitter 


Plastic glow in the dark stars small enough to fir in the bottle

                  Instructions:

(1)  Pour water into the clear bottle

(2)  Then add in a couple glow in the dark stars I used 8 stars

(3) Next add the blue glitter glue to the water and star mixture

(4)  Mix in a little bit of glitter dust glue top on bottle and let dry

(5) shake bottle and let kid watch the glitter settle and separate from the stars

(6) great to use for time out in the evening or to help your child relax and calm down before bed.

Eloise's first marathon (marathon by the sea)

On Saturday august 9 Eloise got to participate in her first kid’s marathon. The run was held at lily lake  in Saint John, New Brunswick.  The name of the run she did is Marathon by the Sea. This year was the 20 anniversary.  This was a great year to start a new tradition. My Aunt runs the adult marathon by the sea every year so we figured it would be fun for the kids to try.           .

When we first got to Lily Lake we had to go to a big white tent to get Eloise’s number and her t shirt. They also gave out a goody bag with a bubble pen a cereal bar and their medal for the kid to get at the end of the race. After we were signed in we went to show Eloise the start and finish line and get a photo of her before with her shirt and number one she was so excited to be there. We still had a half hour before the race started so we took her to another tent where they were making balloon animals for the kids Eloise got  a pink monkey in a tree she was so ecstatic to have a balloon animal.  There was a few tables set up with wheels you could spin and win prizes Eloise got a bag and Brayden got a t shirt besides a change purse and new water bottle.

Right before the race started at 11 they had a warm up and stretch with an instructor for the kids which we thought was a great idea. Then the kids lined up all the little kids that were only doing the 200 meter race lined up first. She was so happy to be running with all the other kids.  Eloise was so excited she was paying more attention to everyone around her starting to run her daddy had to encourage her to start to run. Once she started to run she was in her glory the smile on her face was priceless and so delightful to see. Eloise did awesome she ran 190 meters then had her daddy carry her  the rest of the way to the finish line. I am very proud of her as she ran the race with Brayden her cousin and daddy by her side.