The Lorax

I am so excited for the Lorax to come out in theaters this Friday. The books is great!  I read it to my class and son quite often.  I originally planned to have a Lorax pre-party before going to the movie this Friday, but my son has his first t-ball practice so I am going to hold out.  I have found some great ideas on Google and Pinterest, so I though I would share some of my favorites.  

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1. Truffula seeds
2. Lorax mustache cup
3. cakepops
4. Truffula Tree pom poms
5. Lorax drink dispenser idea
6. Truffula tree cupcakes

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you have a wonderful day with the people you love.

Valentine...I have my eye on you!

So while pinning one evening, I found this cute valentine:

I loved it, but did not have a Cricut cartridge with a monster.  I also knew that my 4 year old could not cut something like that out, so I designed a monster valentine for my preschooler to color in.  

You can probably guess which one my four year old made.  I made a sample to show him what it could look like with googly eyes glued on.  He has loved coloring them in and they are all different.  On the inside he writes his name and is so proud of them.  I've always loved homemade Valentine's more than store bought ones.  Of course we will be attaching some sort of yummy to each one before he hands them out to his preschool buddies.  

I thought I would share, so here is a copy.  They print two to a page.  

I hope you enjoy it!  Let me know how they turn out for you.

Football Treats

Wow, I can't believe it is already February!  Time is flying around here.  I thought I would share some fun football treats I have found around the web.  This weekend is the Super Bowl and even though my team is not in the game, I still enjoy getting together with friends.  We go to a friend's house and the guys watch the game, the kids play outside (it's supposed to be in the mid-high 60's), and the ladies just chat and watch the commercials!  

1. chalkboard table
2. football crackers
3. watermelon helmet
4. game day guacamole
5. football rice krispy treats
6. faux buffalo wings and celery

Have a great weekend! Go Giants (since I've been to NY a few times, I'll root for the Giants).

Candy Canes

What to do with these extra candy canes that have not been eaten?  We are trying to take a sugar break (at least until Valentine's Day) at our house.  Well, during my daily cruise on Pinterest, I found this pinned:

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How cute are these!!!  The Idea Room has a great tutorial on how to make these.  I may attempt to make them this weekend.  I'll let you know how they turn out.  

Do you have any great ideas on how to use up candy canes?  I would love to hear your ideas.

Embrace

Wow...it has been a while. Life has been busy, but great.  I have chosen a new word for 2012, embrace.  Maybe I had secretly chosen it a couple of months ago.  That is why I have been absent from the blogging world.  I have really been cherishing the time with our son.  With him being our only, I feel like time is flying, so I want to embrace my time with him.  But I do want to embrace the things I like to do as well, so I do hope to blog a bit more.  I still enjoy parties and designing them.  


Happy new year!  I will chat with you soon.

Halloween Party

Long time, no post.  Life is busy this time of year, and I cherish every moment that I have with my son.  So, needless to say the blog posts may lag from time to time.  I did want to share our Halloween party we had with some of our preschool friends this past Saturday.  I was running low on time to make up my own printables, so I used this printable party set from Amanda Parker at Shinding Parties to Go. 

It was a really fun set of printables.  The photo props were a hit, and I used them in my classroom on Halloween to get some silly pictures of my first graders after reading Go Away Big Green Monster.  

Here are the party details.  When the kids arrived, they played with ghosts (white balloons with ghost eyes drawn on them).  It's amazing how entertaining balloons are to 4 year olds.  After the children arrived, we went on a pumpkin hunt.  We had his a couple dozen mini pumpkins in the yard.  So the kids found them and we rehid them a few times.  Next, we played tossed the spider in the pumpkin.  This was just throwing plastic spiders into pumpkins.  

Instead of carving pumpkins, we decorating and painted them with various art supplies.  Here are some of the girls creating their masterpieces.

For snacks I made spider crackers with peanut butter, crackers and pretzel legs, we had chocolate milk with bat straws, and decorated a cookie.

While they were eating we took our silly pictures...so fun!

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween.  I know we did, and now the holiday madness begins.

My superman!