Category: Scout Meeting

Lollipop Bunnies

For each bunny, gather the following items:

1 sucker
1/2 white chenille stem, about 5″ for ears
1   1″ flat wooden heart, painted white, for feet
1   1″ round beads, painted white, for head
2   1/2 white pompons for arms
2  1/4″ white pompons for cheeks
1  1/4 pink pompon for nose
2  google eyes
ribbon bow
hot glue
sharpie marker

Instructions:

Draw fluffy feet onto heart with marker if desired. Hot glue sucker with stick pointing straight up. Place head bead over stick, use a dab of glue to secure. Glue on arms, cheeks, nose and eyes.
Cut and bend stems as in photo for ears, stick into top of head, secure with a drop of glue. Last, glue on the bow; top of head for girl bunnies, under head as a bow tie for boy bunnies!

Homemade Butter

From apartmenttherapy: We were recently treated to homemade butter at a friend’s house and it was the best thing we’d tasted in ages (the raspberry muffin it rode in on may have helped, too). It never occurred to us to make butter, but apparently it’s super easy and a great kitchen project to try with kids.

We found plenty of online resources for making butter and they all focus on one thing: shaking your groove thing. That’s right, making butter involves lots of shaking which is really fun for kids. It can be tiring so the more kids you have on hand to share shaking duties the better. (If you’re in a hurry, you can always use a food processor, but really now where’s the fun in that?)

Okay, are you ready for the complex instructions?

  1. Find a jar with a lid.
  2. Pour in heavy cream and close lid.
  3. Shake
  4. Keep shaking
  5. Realize your biceps aren’t what they used to be.
  6. Hand off shaking duties to a child.
  7. When the cream has thickened and become, well, buttery, drain off the remaining buttermilk (around 20 minutes depending on fitness level or number of child helpers).
  8. Refrigerate to harden a bit.
  9. Serve to friends and brag!