I Heart Faces {Wind}

This is a photo I took last evening. There was a glimpse of spring in the air and we walked down to the beach and to get some fresh air and see the sunset. Alex was having fun running and playing and stopped for a minute with this mischievous look, and crazy wind blown hair. What was he up to? Well his next move was jumping over a rock into a tide pool and getting soaking wet, so I guess that was it. I am entering this into the I Heart Faces - "Wind" photo challenge.

Homemade Play Dough and Easter Cookie Cutters

Alex had so much fun with the play dough that I made for St. Patrick's Day, I decided to make some for Easter. I made 2 batches, one colored purple with white glitter and one colored yellow.  I used our favorite recipe from Counting Coconuts. It always turns out great.

Alex had a great time making bunnies, eggs, and birds with some cookie cutters. His imagination is really growing. He had mommy and daddy bunnies hopping around, swirled Easter eggs, a duck and even made a snake that hatched out of a plastic Easter egg. 

Snake hatching

He made me a flower too. I think it made from parts of the snake, but its the thought that counts, right?  :)

A Yarn Basket

I wanted Alex to make his Grandmother a special little Easter gift. So I came up with the idea to make a balloon yarn basket. I remember making them when I was little. So I blew up a balloon, cut some yarn into strips and mixed up some glue with water. Alex dipped the yarn into the glue mixture and draped it over the balloon. He did a few strands and then decided it was "yucky" so I ended up doing the rest.

Checking out the yarn on the balloon.

We let dry for a couple days and then he popped the balloon. This was Alex's favorite part!

The eggs were just for photo purposes.

We will add a little bit of Easter grass and a few goodies. I really hoping to make some of these.
So there you have it...a cute little Easter gift for "Grammy"

A Story and a Footprint Chick

"There was an old lady that swallowed a chick, I don't know why she swallowed a chick, but she didn't get sick." 

We recently borrowed There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick by Lucille Colandro from our library. This is the Easter version of  Colandro's "Old Lady" series. It is a silly book with repetitive rhyming text and funny illustration. It was a fun read. 

After reading this we made our own silly chick. We made a footprint chick. I painted Alex's foot yellow and he stepped on to a piece of construction paper. 

When the footprint had dried Alex glued on some googly eyes, two yellow feathers for wings and a orange beak that I had cut out for him out paper. 

Our silly chick was finished!

I Heart Faces {Shadows}

This weeks photo challenge at I Heart Faces is Shadows. This is a photo of Alex playing at Old Orchard Beach in Maine, last summer. Can you tell I am longing for summer? Tomorrow is suppose to be in the 70s, fingers crossed. We need some warm fresh air to get rid of these head colds.

Check out all the beautiful shadow photography at:

Photo Challenge - Black and White

I love this photo. We were going for a walk (Alex a ride) on a beautiful day when I snapped this photo. Oh how I long for warm spring days. Are they ever coming?

I am entering this in The Paper Mama photo challenge. Check out all the great black and white photos here:

Marbled Easter Egg Garland

I saw the idea to make Shaving Cream Easter Cards at Little Wonders' Days about a week ago and decided it would be a fun, messy project for us to try. Alex had a blast, he loves anything that makes a mess and they came out really pretty. We made our eggs into a garland.

Here is what we did. I spread some shaving cream on a tray then added some acrylic paint. 

 Alex swirled it around with a brush

 Then he laid a piece of paper on the swirled colors, and carefully lifted it up.

We tried different colored papers. All the directions I read it said to use a squeegee to remove the shaving cream. We didn't have one so I just blotted them with another piece of paper to get off the excess shaving cream and whatever was remaining disappeared when they dried.

 

The shaving cream was a lot of fun for sensory play too.

 and it turned a lovely shade of "yuck" brown. :P

 After they had dried overnight I cut them into egg shapes, used a hole punch to put to holes in the top and laced them on a piece of embroidery thread. We had some flower cut outs left over from my birthday decorations so I added them in between each egg on the garland. We hung it up on the beam in the middle of our living room. It added a nice little touch of Easter/ Spring to the room.