4 Crazy Kings

Bunny Place Cards

This is a great last minute addition to your Easter table! We made these bunny place cards last year. I just love the jelly bean eyes. Click Bunny Place Cards for the tutorial. For more Easter crafts click here.

Jimmie's Collage

Ticia from Adventures in Mommydom told me about a Chinese New Year contest over at Jimmie's Collage. Jimmie is an American mom homeschooling her daughter in China.

We didn't win the contest (although it sure feels like we did!) Jimmie was kind enough to send us a wonderful little package filled with interesting treasures from China. Seeing the Ywon was so cool. Lu was over the moon since she loves all things Chinese -- despite the fact we are Korean. Did you all know she was taking Chinese language classes for her own enjoyment? When I asked her if she preferred to take Korean classes she simply stated that she wanted to be Chinese. OK, why not? America is the land of reinvention.

Thank you to Jimmie's Collage! Check out her blog to read about their life in China. I have enjoyed looking at their Crafts, Lap Booking and Note Booking sections.

Barbie Mermaid Tail

Lu requested a mermaid tail for her Cinderella Barbie. I think she is hinting she wants the Ariel Barbie! Here is the slightly bulky and ill fitting result. Note: Felt does not make an ideal mermaid tail.

Lu is happy with it (it helps when your audience is 4 and easily impressed!)

Plus, it only took me 20 minutes to whip up.

So, I can live with it...for now.

You know the next trip to the fabric store I'll be looking for some cool fabric.

You Got To Keep Them Separated!

New floors going in. Had to clear our main living level. Trying to keep the girls occupied with all their toys packed up. Built them a fort. Lasted about two minutes before I heard, "MOOOOMMMMM!" Followed by, "Waaaaahhhhhhh!"

Enter fort number two. Some days it isn't worth my sanity to get them to work it out.

Everybody happy?

Too bad Emme can't read.

Now maybe I can empty out that closet. Not likely, but I'll try.

Spring Flower Collages

Turn those flower catalogs that are arriving right about now into beautiful Spring collages.

Just cut out lots of flowers. Crop in close to the bloom.

I do it while watching TV or talking on the phone. It doesn't take long to compile a stack.

Glue, paper, paintbrushes, tissue squares and glitter round out your supplies.

I like to have them use colorful paper as the background.

Em chose to use more tissue than flowers.

Lu was all about the flowers.

In the end we had several sheets of flower collages.

So, we turned them into...

Easter Eggs

And Paper Chains

Egg Heads

We received these great little Egg Head kits from our local Arboretum.

The kits contained instructions, seeds and half a soil disc.

Teachers: These are so easy to put together! You could easily make up a bunch of these and pass them out on Earth Day.

My girls were fascinated by the dehydrated soil disc. When you add water it expands instantly.

Place the soil in the egg shell. Add seeds and water. The seeds started growing after one day.

You can decorate your egg shells before or after your "hair" grows. Display on a cardboard ring or in an egg cup.

Model Magic Easter Egg

Supplies: Model Magic in different colors & Styrofoam Egg

Plastic Work Mat, Rolling Pin, Plastic Wrap

We began with a little color mixing. We did not have green MM so Lu mixed Yellow and Blue together. I think Lu still had St. Patrick's Day on her mind.

Roll out your MM. We used plastic over our MM so it wouldn't stick to the rolling pin. Make sure your piece is large enough to wrap around your egg. Don't make too thin or it will rip. Once rolled out have fun decorating. Rolling little balls of colored MM and then smoosh them into the MM. It is really fun and easy to do! You don't even need to wrap it around an egg.

Once your piece is thoroughly decorated, wrap it around the egg. Mush together the seam. Cove it with more colored dots. Lu even stamped hers.

I think Lu's came out looking very Kandinsky-esque!

Let it dry. MM is very light weight. You could attach a ribbon from the top and hang your egg. Lu chose to squirrel it away in her room. Em was napping when we made Lu's. This project is so easy - I will be repeating it with Em when Lu is at school. I know she will love squishing the MM!