Kids Fall Craft: Painting Acorns

Sophia and I painted some acorns today. We used acrylic paint to paint our acorns. This was really easy and fun to do for my 4 year old. And since we are working on her numbers, I asked her to collect 20 acorns. She did great and was able to count them on her own.

Homemade GAK

Looking for fun things to do with your kids this summer? Try this homemade GAK! Aside from making homemade play dough, making GAK is one of their favorites to make. It's easy and fun. I love that it has only 4 ingredients: glue, borax, water and food coloring.

Here's the exact measurements:

1- 8 oz glue
water - devided (1/2 cup and 1/4 cup warm water
1 tsp of Borax
food coloring

Direction:

• Mix glue and half a cup of water in a container then add your choice of food coloring.
• Mix Borax and 1/4 cup of warm water until completely dissolved in a separate container.
• Once Borax is dissolved mix together with your glue mixture. And mix until solid.

See how easy is that? 

DIY Bath Crayons

I'm always looking for crafts and activities that my kids and I can do. It has to be easy enough for them to do on their own or with very little help.

When I saw this DIY soap crayons on Pinterest I know my kids would be very excited to do them. They are fun and easy to make. I had everything I needed except for the white soap so I went to the dollar store and bought one.

You will need:

White bar soap - We used two Ivory Soap
Grater
Food Coloring
Water

1. Grate your soap.

 2. Add a table spoon of water to one cup of grated soap. Then add your food coloring. The darker you want your crayons the more food coloring you add. Then mix it all up. It should have a dough consistency.

 3.  You can use cookie cutter, play dough cutter to form any shape you want. Let it dry and wait until it gets hard.

Parragon Books Review and Giveaway

I am a member of Parragon blogger book review club "Book Buddies." I was sent two books to review this month.

The first book they sent me is The Bully and the Shrimp by Catherine Allison. It's about a boy name Noah Shrimpton. He's small for his age. He moves to a new school and the class bully starts picking on him. He's afraid to tell anyone so he uses his journal to draw and expresses himself. At the end of the book he gains confidence and learns to stand up for himself.

We enjoyed reading this book. My kids liked the illustration specially Noah's journal.  He draws dinosaurs and draws himself as superhero. I really like that this book teaches kids how to handle bullying. It teaches them the importance of telling someone when they are being bullied and to speak up. October is National Bullying Prevention Month so this books was a perfect book to read.

We were also sent The Wonderfully Wicked Witches - Create your own coven of witches. The box comes with a book that shows you step-by-step instructions on how to make 8 witches. It also contains felt, thread, stuffing, and buttons to make your first witch.

We had a lot of fun creating our first witch. My girls are still too young to sew so I did that part. But they were able to help me trace, cut and do the stuffing. The instructions were pretty easy to follow. It took us about an hour doing this craft.

 

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