One more Easter project

Cam went snow machining with friends, so there wives came over and made a craft with me and the kids. (we would normally all jump at the chance to go, but it was raining and blowing, and we would rather save the babysitters for a beautiful day). any way here is the project.

Adele made these two, it's one eye is missing in action.

I made a few with patterned paper, but they went somewhere else.

 We made these with 81/2 x 11 paper we tried 12x12 paper on others, but is makes the cones really big!  We also found it is easier to forget the pattern and just roll up the paper to make a cone, staple, and cut off the extra on the top and side.  I used a hot glue gun to glue the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.  Others chose to use the Elmer's Glue.

I plan to fill them with grass and candy for this weekend.

Recycled Easter basket project

The kids have been using them as mailboxes (for left our toys)

I saw a picture of an Easter basket made out of a #10 can.  I decided to try it when another niece came to visit.  The kids liked to pick out there paper and paint the Mode Podge on the can.  (except for my oldest he wanted to try the hot glue gun, it did not work as well because the glue dried to fast I was unable to smooth it down).  All in all a fun  easy project

April Fools

On March 31 my niece was babysitting for us.  When we got back Harper and I found these April fools tricks on the internet.  We decided to try a few out on some of the unsuspecting kids and "others".


We made Meatloaf Cupcakes with Mash potato Frosting

Harper added a lot of neon blue food coloring to the "frosting"  so they looked very believable!

As you can see we got mixed reactions.  Some smiles, some not, laughter and anger (from the let down of not having a sweet snack).

The other trick was JELL-O THAT LOOKS LIKE A refreshing fruit drink