Wordless Wednesday - Sand Pit

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Welcome to the unveiling of my new sand pit! You think it's a hit?!

Preparing and serving the tea...

Sifting sugar for the baking...

Chocolate cake with that tea, anyone?

What's a proper tea party without a dump truck?

Mommy's insert: I love the eyelashes!

Oh yeah, this is fun!

Most definitely!

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Homemade Craft Recipes

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If you thought you were getting lots of good craft ideas from Ms. Shannon at Teaching Tinytots before, you are in for a bonus round today! We got LOTS of recipes from her to share with you...

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What is mommy school with out homemade craft recipes?

Flour-Based Poster Paint

NEED:

1. 1/4 cup flour
2. 1 cup water
3. Small jars or plastic containers
4. 3 or 4 drops of food coloring or paste (for smelly use kool aid)
5. 2 tablespoons water per container
6. 2- 4 drops of dish soap ( to make it washable)
7. for shiny finish a few drops of corn sryup

TO DO:

1. Measure flour into saucepan.
2. Slowly add 1 cup water while stirring to make a smooth paste.
3. Heat, stirring constantly, until paste begins to thicken.
4. Cool.
5. Measure 1/4 cup paste into each small container.
6. Add food coloring/kool aid
7. Stir well.

*If you want to make a big batch, don't divide into containers!

Store covered.

Stamp Pad

1. Lay some paper towels or napkins onto a paper plate.
2. Pour enough paint to make it stampable but not too much! You might need to spread it around with a paint brush.
3. Now you can stamp anything you want!

Homemade Glue

NEED:

1. 3/4 cup water
2. 2 tablespoons corn syrup
3. 1 teaspoon white vinegar
4. 1/2 cup cornstarch
5. 3/4 cup cold water

TO DO:

1. Mix water, corn syrup and vinegar in a saucepan.
2. Bring to a rolling boil.
3. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and cold water.
4. Add this mixture slowly to first mixture, stirring constantly.
5. Let stand overnight before using.

Kool-Aid Play Dough

NEED:

1. 1/2 cup salt
2. 2 cups water
3. 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4. 2 cups flour
5. 2 tablespoons alum
6. 1 envelope unsweetened Kool-Aid,any color/flavor desired

TO DO:

1. Boil salt in water until salt is dissolved.
2. Add Kool-Aid, vegetable oil, flour and alum.
3. Knead or process until smooth.

Keeps for two months or longer.

Imitation Sand

Here is a great recipe for colored sand that will keep forever! Great for crafts or sensory tables

NEED:

1. 1/2 c salt
2. 1/2 c cornmeal
3. 1 1/2 tbsp liquid paint
4. ziploc baggie
5. paper towels/wax paper

TO MAKE:

1. Pour all items in a baggie and seal shut.
2. Give to LO to shake up and lay on paper towels or wax paper to dry!

Imitation Glitter

This is great and wonderful to use w/ real LO's that might put glitter in their mouth! Great for crafts or sensory table too.

NEED:

1. salt
2. food coloring
3. baking sheet

TO MAKE:

1. Mix up the amount of salt you want to make and food coloring
2. Mix well
3. Lay out on a baking sheet and bake in oven at 350 for 10 minslet cool and store!

Glossy Paint

NEED:

1. 1 can sweet condensed milk
2. Pink, Blue and green food coloring
3. 3 bowls

TO MAKE:

1. Add enough food coloring paste to get the desired color depth you want and add just a tad of water to make it more spreadable.

Ponta do Ouro

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I had lots of fun at the beach this weekend! We drove forever on bumpy roads; the last 20 or so km on sand, the last 15 km on 4wd sand tracks. You wouldn’t expect to see many people at the destination after that trip, but it was a regular, bustling resort full of South Africans. Here is a photo of our caravan on one of the better sand tracks.
There were twenty of us staying in three rooms/cabins right by the beach. I got to play in the sand, boogie board, take a sunrise walk with Auntie Susan, and check out tidal pools.

Here are some cool photos of me playing with my friend B.

Here I'm on my sunrise walk with Auntie Susan:

And playing with sand:

And boogie boarding just before a wave came and knocked me down. I was having so much fun, I was clapping instead of holding on!

And sitting on my chair in front of the cabin. Actually, it looks like I'm in front of one of the trucks, doesn't it?

A doggie adopted us Saturday night, and Daddy fed it some potjie kos. It wasn’t too hungry, so there was some food left. The next morning I was hungry, so I went to Daddy, folded my hands so he could pray for the food, and then went to the doggie bowl to get me some breakfast. Mommy intervened and made me eat ProNutro instead, which didn’t look nearly as good.

We kinda got lost on the way back. There are multiple sand tracks all going the same way, so you can hop in between them and pick the best-looking one. Except only one of them leads to the bridge you need to cross (a bunch of little sticks with a couple of planks on top to drive on). And that wasn’t the track we took. So we ended up at a big ditch and had to backtrack quite a few km to find the right track.

We all made it back safe and sound, back to another work week here in Matola . . .