Circle Crayons

I saw this idea on a friends blog, and thought it was a great idea. We tried it the other day, and the kids loved it. Morgan did really well at helping unwrap the crayons, & Jackson was just ready to put them in the pan. First, we cut up already broken crayons in pea size pieces & divided them according to their color, then we put different colors in a muffin pan, and then we baked them for 15 minutes at 170 degrees (or you could do 150 degrees for 20 minutes) We let them cool, and then put them in the freezer and then they popped out and the kids had fun little circle shaped crayons. The only thing I don't like about this activity is you kind of have to scratch the leftover ring from the crayon off in the muffin pan, but the kids loved coloring with them. (I couldn't get this picture to flip) :)

Journaling

I just found a cool website so you can keep an online journal. I know that blogging is kind of like a journal, but this one is completely private, and they have a section called "About Me" where there are all sorts of questions about your family, kids, growing up, work, marriage... everything that you just type an answer for and it saves it. For me, I like this because it's easier for me to type then right, especially where I love to be on the computer anyway, it works really well, if I just type a paragraph every once in a while. You can go HERE (ldsjournal) to check it out. Oh, and it's free... even better!

My new favorite site...

Welcome to this new blog! This is completly experimental... I just need somewhere to write or type everything down! I keep papers on my computer desk, and write things on them, and by the end of the week I have paper's full of cool websites or ideas, & doodled daisys and flowers all over the place... but anyway, even though it's a place for me to help organize my mind, I hope you are able to get something from this too. This first picture is from this AMAZING website called Piggie's & Ponies. It's a group of girls that have incredible ideas for how to do girls hair. I have tried a couple of them on Morgan and she looks adorable! I need to ask them if they can give me ideas for how to style my hair, without looking crazy! :) Anyway... enjoy & there will be more to come!

(Oh, and the hair things in this picture are large or medium hair elastics that I just knotted different kinds of ribbon around before I put them in her hair!)

These next pictures are of the kids painting with homemade finger paints! How cool is that... okay maybe some of you already knew how to do this, but honestly it never even crossed my mind, but all you do is take karo or corn syrup, put some in little bowls and add food coloring... and da da da da... edible finger paints, plus it was really easy to clean up, the kids had blast, & I had all the supplies already at home. For some more great ideas for you kids and life, you can go here (Supermomcentral.blogspot.com)