Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A List of Ideas


So I’m sure many of you have or have at least heard of the wonderful website called Pinterest…. If you’re a mom or nanny or grandma or teacher or crafter or a girl (and I even know some guys), you should totally get one!! Even though you waste too many hours a day looking at things you will probably never make, it does have some pretty awesome ideas and most of them are reasonable, affordable, and easy to do, even if you are the worst DIY person ever. If you’ve never heard of it before let me tell you. It’s an online bulletin board with different ideas for cooking, decorating, crafts, weddings, parties, holidays, fitness, pets, photography, and pretty much anything else you could think of.  So each picture is a different “pin” and with your account, you can create different “boards”. For example, I have at the moment 17 boards that consist of great ideas, for the home, clothes, future wedding, hair, crafts, food, quotes, faith, photography, teacher things, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Nannying, and pets…. These are all linked to my pinterest page so you can look at them. You can follow different people (such as your family or friends, or you could even follow random strangers that just “pin” things you really like) and get ideas from all over. It is such a neat idea and to say I spend too much time on the website is an understatement…. O and it’s a really great study break, just saying.
But this website is where I get A LOT of my ideas…. Not including or limited to my brain cells also. But I love doing things that are going to make memories with kids and what better way to do it by making, creating, and playing with things that they made (and you helped make).
If you haven’t already clicked on the Nannying link above, that’s perfectly fine because I’m about to show you most of those things. I’m going to try to remember to link the post I’ve made about any of them… and I promise (don’t hurt me if I don’t) to try to add more before the summer ends… (which for me will be the middle of August, just so you know)

Without further ado, THE LIST!
1.                Make edible play dough
2.             Play homemade board games
3.              Make a handprint calendar
4.             Make a giant bubble in the backyard
5.             Play minute to win it games
6.             Do the hot rocks activity
7.              Create sandpaper art
8.              Make your own Lava lamp
9.             Create salt art
10.       Do the exploding sandwich bag
11.           Paint with soap bubbles
12.         Make a volcano
13.         Make marshmallow poppers
14.        Paint our nails different colors
15.         Have a birthday party for each person
16.        Do the melting crayon art
17.         Create the marshmallow buildings
18.         Create handprint art
19.        Noodle races!
20.     Make a homemade pizza
21.         Go swimming and play fun games
22.      Make homemade sugar cookies
23.       Paint in zip lock bags
24.      Create GAK
25.      Go to Sonic on Fridays!
26.      Make homemade pretzels
27.       Have a water balloon fight
28.       Make homemade play dough
29.      Have a squirt bottle fight
30.     Make homemade bouncy balls
31.         Make homemade doughnuts!
32.       Have a pajama day
33.       Make homemade bubbles
34.      Create a band with homemade instruments
35.       Go bowling!!
36.      Make and create our own homemade slushies
37.       Balloon Ping-Pong
38.       Make sponge bombs
39.      Make homemade popsicles
40.    Go on an ABC walk
41.        Make sidewalk chalk

If you have any other ideas or helpful hints on these activities, leave a comment and let us all know!
Have a beautiful and fun creative day!

Peace and Love
Kelley

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