Home Made Brown Sugar Scrub

May 9, 2008 at 6:32 pm · Comments (4)
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My son made this scrub for me at school as a mother’s day gift. It’s a really simple and neat gift idea I thought I’d share with my readers. I also already used the scrub and it leaves your skin feeling amazingly clean and smooth. This stuff is marketed for upwards of about $65.00. Anyways, here ya go!

Ingredients:

1 Cup of brown sugar
1/2 Cup of Sweetened Almond Oil
1 tsp of Vitamin E
1 tsp vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Honey

Directions:
Mix the liquids (almond oil, vitamin e, vanilla extract, and honey) together in a bowl. Add the brown sugar and mix it up really well. If you are just using it for yourself you can simply use a plastic storage container with a lid. If you plan on giving as a gift, or just want to make it look pretty, you can use some little decorative jars or bottles. If you like you can even decorate the bottles.

Got any ideas like this you’d like to share? Comment and let me know!

Commenters: Julie, Martini

Homemade Playdoh

April 19, 2008 at 8:11 pm · Comments (3)
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My son is having a friend sleep over, and he’s been here since about 1 p.m today. They’ve played outside, played video games, watched a movie, and played with my son’s k’nex. They seemed to be out of ideas. So I thought they might enjoy making some homemade playdoh to keep them occupied. Then of course being me, I thought I’d share the idea with my readers. (Yes, all 2 of you). So here ya go.

(it requires ALOT of salt)

1/4 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
about 1/4 cup of water

Let the kid(s) mix the flour and salt in a bowl and then add the water. Let them knead and squeeze and squish the dough to make a clay-like consistency. You may need to add more water, but I never do. And voila, you have homemade playdoh.

You can add food coloring, but be careful about staining clothes and what not. This form of dough doesn’t last a long time but it’ll last about a month or so. It’s more for immediate play than long term. It gives he kids something fun to do and something fun to play with.

If you’ve got any fun ideas like this, email me or leave a comment. I’d love to hear about them.

Commenters: Chelsea, Julie

I Scream 4 Ice Cream

April 8, 2008 at 2:04 am · Comments (2)
Wordcount: 269

A few weeks ago I told you all about how my son had a Math and Science night at his school and how he got to make ice cream in one of the classrooms. I also promised I’d share the “recipe”, so here it is. Keep in mind this is just a kid’s project and I wouldn’t really recommend using this recipe to make ice cream in a larger quantity than 1/4 cup.

Materials you will need for each child:

One teaspoon of sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 drops vanilla extract
Measuring cups and spoons
1 locking sandwich bag
1 locking quart size bag
2 cups of ice
1/4 cup of rock salt
1 paper towel
1 plastic spoon to eat ice cream

Instructions:
Put the sugar, milk and vanilla into a Ziploc sandwich bag seal the bag and shake gently to mix the ingredients. Put the bag into another quart sized Ziploc bag. Put ice and rock salt inside the quart sized Ziploc bag (NOT inside the sandwich bag). Wrap a paper towel around the outside of the large Ziploc bag to protect hands from the cold. Knead bag until mixture freezes. Eat and Enjoy!

Things to discuss with your child:
1. What makes a frozen object, like ice cream, melt in your mouth?
2. What makes the ice cream in this recipe turn into a solid.
3. Compare how the liquid recipe and frozen cream are the same and different.

If you’ve got any fun/simple recipes like this that you think my kiddo would enjoy trying out, email me and let me know. If we use your recipe I’ll blog about what we did and how it turned out and give you full credit. Thanks.

Commenters: Julie