Category: Fun

Ice Cube Necklace

This is a favorite among kids:

You’ll need:

  • string or yarn
  • large beads or buttons
  • ice tray
  • water
  • time, prepare ahead of time (kids hate to wait!)

String the beads, and arrange so that each bead sits in a cavity in the tray. Add water, don’t overfill. Freeze.

When frozen remove and tie around your neck. Ahhh.

step by step instructions here

Play With Shaving Cream

This is a very fun, and generally clean playtime activity. All you’ll need is:

  • Foam Shaving Cream
  • Table with Laminate Surface
  • Kid(s)

Directions: Spray some shaving cream on the table and tell the kids to rub it around, write letters, make pictures, etc. all with their hands.

Make sure kids know not to touch their face/eyes, while playing. Clean up is a breeze too. Just rinse hands, and wipe off table.

How To Tell When Food’s Gone Bad

This is funny, thought I’d share…

EGGS
When something starts pecking its way out of the shell, the egg is probably past its prime.

DAIRY PRODUCTS
Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yogurt. Yogurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage cheese.  Cottage cheese is spoiled when it starts to look like regular cheese. Regular cheese is nothing but spoiled milk anyway and can’t get any more spoiled than it is already. Cheddar cheese is spoiled when you think it is blue cheese but you realize you’ve never purchased that kind.

MEAT
If opening the refrigerator door causes stray animals from a three-block radius to congregate outside your house, the meat is spoiled.

BREAD
Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds are the only officially acceptable “spots” that should be seen on the surface of any loaf of bread. Fuzzy and hairy looking white or green growth areas are a good indication that your bread has turned into a pharmaceutical laboratory experiment.

CARROTS
A carrot that you can tie a clove hitch in is not fresh.

RAISINS
Raisins should not be harder than your teeth.

more here