My Rainbow does not look like yours!

Another Pintrest find for craft night!  Apparently, our rainbows look a little different from yours!

Jello Popcorn

Found the recipe, of sorts, on Pintrest.  M thinks it's "wonderful, Mommy!", hubby says "omg, take that to work! get it out of the house!".  So, kids enjoy, parents, maybe not so much.  cheap and easy for a kids party!  One can of sweetened condensed milk, on package of jello, 12 cups of popcorn.  Directions can be found at: http://amomnotapro.blogspot.com/2011/09/easy-and-yummy-candied-popcorn.html

Pictures of ours:  i used strawberry jello.

Chalkboard Wall

So, we did it!  We finally did something that we see all the time in magazines and online and everyone thinks is cool, but i don't currently know anyone who has actually been brave enough to actually do it!  Now, you, lucky enough to know me, know someone!  We took a section of wall in our kitchen and made it into a magnetic chalkboard!  yes yes yes!

 

Magnetic primer....about $22 for the box.  Says it covers 16 square feet with 4 coats.  We covered 15 square feet with about 5 coats and still had some leftover.  Now my math may be off, but... so, now i have some leftover magnetic paint, what do i do with it?

The magnetic layer.  We only did it in the middle, first, because we though we need to conserve the paint (wrong), then because we figured we wouldn't be putting any magnets way high up or near the ground.

 

Chalkboard paint....about $8 and covers about 100 square feet.  Have a lot of this leftover after 3 coats....anyone interested in the leftovers?

 waiting for the wall to dry.  Takes 3 days to sit, then you condition it.  Conditioning is simply going over the whole thing with chalk and then erasing it.  This was a long 3 days!

 Our wall!!  We still need to get a cover for the outlet so the outlets are closed off, but we couldn't wait!  As you can see we drew 'the line'.  Kids, down, adults, up!  I'm so excited!!!

A close-up of the Parent's side.

Let me know if you get brave and do something like this too!!

Teacher Valentine's

So, we came up with an idea for the teacher Valentine to go with the crayon circles.  Large crayons!  The insides are Rolos topped with a Hershey kiss.  Hard as heck to make since you can't get Rolos in a tube anymore!  Should have improvised and went with Mentos or something!  Anyway, here they are.

Valentine's Follow-Up

As promised, here are the completed Valentine's for preschool.  They are slightly different from those I saw on Pintrest, but i finally learned how to use my circle cutter and got carried away so I worked it in.  M chose the colors and decided which crayons went where.  Good stuff!

April Challenge

So, I guess April is going to BE something!  I've signed up for a blog challenge of blogging everyday in April, except Sundays, with each day starting with a lettered topic A on the first, B on the next and so on and so forth. I guess M and J will get a full month of crafts and cakes!  Wish me luck!  If you blog and want to sign-up, go here.

"Mess Art" magnets

Sunday morning....slow day, happy kids, and the ever present question... "Mommy, can I make something?".  So, not wanting to create another huge mess in the craft room, i gave him a little cup and access to my supply wall.  He picked out a few items and "ta-da!"  a wooden disk, some random items, and glue gun, and a magnet dot.  Easy and satisfied that artsy need!