Crafty

I've been feeling rather crafty today. Maybe it's because the sun WAS out, or maybe it's because my back is feeling so much better, or maybe because there is real hope of getting my van back today. ( 5 school days with out my van and shuttling EVERYONE to and from work and school has been, not bad, I mean I am so glad we DO have 2 cars, it's just been a lot of time in the car.)

So this morning I tried to once again shake up breakfast by adding blue food coloring to the pancake batter. While I was cooking it it looked so gross! Like I was cooking play dough.

Cedar really liked them, he even took an extra in his lunch to show his friends. Aspen grudgingly ate one, one crumb at a time. (I think she was holding out for the freezer kind.) And Olive found them interesting to tear apart and see the blue on the inside. Hmmm, I don't know if I'll do that again. Maybe for Cedar's birthday.

Then we were at Walmart and found candy canes for $.20. I had just seen a post over at make and take about doing candy cane words. So Olive and I tried it. It was really fun. What we did was spray a cookie sheet, because I didn't have parchment paper, unwrap the candy canes and figure out what letter we were going to make and arrange them on the cookie sheet so that all I would have to do was push them together. ; They are only movable for a minute or so. So it helps to be quick. Then put them in a 250* oven for 5 min. Make and take said 10 min, and we tried that first, but by 10 min they were very flat and cooled too quickly.
We had fun playing games with the letters in Olive's name until the E broke. I would mix up the letters and she would try to put them back in order. Once, she spelled her name totally backwards.
We made hearts too by putting 2 candy canes together. Olive is going to make valentines cards to go with them.

This wasn't from today, but yesterday's post was somehow messed up that I thought I would re-post the "cookie making" that Olive and I did last week.
I had found a scrap of fleece, and it reminded me of some play food that I had seen online that was home made. I did a little search and found some directions for making "sugar cookies." Olive has also been feeling really crafty lately so I got it all ready so we could make them after nap time. I traced circles (2 sizes of cups) onto the fleece and cut them into pairs so she wouldn't get overwhelmed.

Olive cut the circles out while I stiched the "sprinkles" on.
She wanted to try doing the sprinkles and did a pretty good job! Then I sewed the circles together. I didn't put any stuffing in them because all I had was old quilt batting and I didn't want to mess with it. I used a zig zag stitch and then I had to re-trim the circles. But the turned out really cute.
And we did have fun having cookies and lemonaid!