Monster Ball...

 


We're almost all the way through Monster Week already. Today was cooking day and Evie was super excited for making a treat. When she was in preschool they did the cooking either in the morning so they could eat their treat as a snack or right before snack time if it was something that would be ready right away. 










So we made these around our regular snack time. This isn't Evie's first rodeo with cooking using the stove so she got to add the ingredients and stir and I helped her measure what we needed. 








She may have snuck a mini marshmallow or two as we were cooking. 😂 At the end we put it all into these little glass containers to cool and put our monster sprinkles on the top. Once they had cooled down we formed them into balls and tossed them into a bag for tomorrows movie day!









In the morning we did some yoga as usual and practiced cutting and making shapes with these fun Monsters Inc activity sheets I found online.








And then we wrapped up our day playing outside. She's finally starting to figure out her scooter and she did great on her bike for awhile too but it's a little too small so I guess it's time for an upgrade! One more day this week and it should be a fun one!!










Monster Balls:

8c popcorn

3TB butter

1c mini marshmallows

a few drops of food color

sprinkles (optional)

Melt butter in a pan over medium heat. Once melted add food color and marshmallows. Melt completely and then pour over popcorn. When it cools roll into balls and add sprinkles! 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Seed paper...

Image
  Today we made some seed paper! It was chillier out today so we tried to squeeze this one in before it got TOO cold. Yesterday we shredded up some paper we got from Nana and soaked it in some water.  Then Evie got to add some dye into the mix to try to make it look pink. This worked pretty well but it wasn't as bold when the paper dried later. She had fun mixing it up and then we took it to the blender to get it really nice and pulpy.  After that we took it outside to smoosh out the water over a screen we made. Last we turned them out onto towels and Evie got to add seeds. I know you can add them into the pulp mix as well but I didn't want them to sprout and the paper is going to be wet for a few days at least since it's chilly and rainy out now. Once these are done we will cut then into shapes and use them in her bee garden next month. She really had a lot of fun with this one and it was such a cheap and easy thing to do. When I was a kid we once made paper in an art cl...
Read more

Arts AND Crafts...

Image
  Today we had art day and worked on some fun projects together. I told Evie this morning that it was arts and crafts day and she was SUPER excited because other than STEM day, arts and crafts are her favorite. We started off this afternoon with some potato stamping. I set this up while Evie was doing her quiet time and when I presented her with the paint, canvas, and potato she said to me "Mama I thought that potato was my snack!" 😂😂 She was definitely relieved to find out it wasn't for eating.  She had a lot of fun smashing it around and combining the colors to make her picture. After we finished our potato painting we had some free play and made chalk houses for her LOL dolls for awhile. We also made use of the sunny day (the first in awhile!) to plant a tree in the yard together. But as the evening wore on and dinnertime came around she told me  "Mama you said it was arts AND crafts day and we did art but we didn't do a craft!!" So we broke out some pe...
Read more

Ice, Ice Baby...

Image
    This week along with weather we've been talking about climates and how we are all adapted and suited for where we live. Today we switched up our sensory table for a snowy, icy, arctic one. I wasn't sure how Evie would like this one because while she loves water play she does NOT like to be sticky or slimy. The snow (which is fake snow made from powder ) isn't cold at all but it gets sort of gel like when you mix the two.  She had fun balancing the animals on the ice and digging them into the snow for awhile and then she cautiously asked if she could mix the snow and water. When I told her of course she can she was ecstatic. She found that adding snow to water caused the snow to "melt" and adding the water to the snow melted it down into gelatinous pools of blue "ice".  After lunchtime we took this one outside and she played with it for HOURS. Tossing the snow, making "food" out of the mixed snow and ice and pretending her Chelsea doll was o...
Read more