Make It Monday: Task Cards

This week for Make It Monday, I made some task cards. The will be our new Featured Freebie on our TpT store.

I included a color set and a b/w set. There's also 2 different recording sheets included! This is our first set of Language Arts task cards so let us know what you think! Click the cover below to download your copy!

Remember, if you download this great freebie, to leave some feedback!

Make It Monday: Beyond the Grave Chicken Salad

Is it Tuesday already?! Sorry we're being awful bloggers! Let's get back on schedule!

So we spent Monday hanging out at my parents house. I spent the a great part of my day in the kitchen making some amazing chicken salad! I am so excited to share this recipe with you!

This is what we're having for lunch the rest of the week! It's awesome!

 I wanted to hang the recipe card in front of me and the only magnetic surface I could find was the cabinet hinge! The downside to stainless steel appliances...

Ok so here's the recipe where you can actually read it...

Ingredients:
First- 5 lbs chicken breast, 1 onion quartered, 2 chicken bouillon cubes, 1 tsp parsley
Dressing- 1/2 cup Italian dressing, 1 cup mayo, 1 tbsp white vinegar, 1/2 tsp celery salt, 2 tbsp sugar, 1/8 tsp salt, 1 dash paprika
Final- 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 tbsp honey, 1 cup mayo, 8oz cream cheese

Directions:
Add first five ingredients to 2 qt water and boil. Lower heat and simmer for 40 minutes. Let cool. Blend dressing. Shred chicken and mix with 1 cup of dressing. Let marinate in refrigerator for at least an hour. Combine remaining dressing and final ingredients. Add chicken and mix well. Serve with crackers or in sandwich. 

Here's a picture of the first step...it smelled amazing! 

Here's the chicken and dressing after in marinated for an hour.

 

This is what the dressing and final ingredients look like mixed together. 

Doesn't look very appealing honestly. 

Here's the finished product! 

It sounds like a lot and it kinda is, but I promise it is totally worth it! It's easiest if you mix the dressing while the chicken is simmering. Then go ahead and put 1 cup of it to the side and mix the rest with the final ingredients. That way you can spend a lot less time in the kitchen. I didn't do this the first time I ever made it, but this time was much better and easier! 

 

What's your favorite recipe? 

If you try this one, let us know! 

 

Make It Monday: Stop Motion Animation

We are so excited to share this project with you! We literally spent like two and half hours on this, but this is a project that you can spend as little or as much time on as you would like. We went all out for ours, but it can easily be made simpler.

Yesterday we were getting ready to sit down at the breakfast table when Lil Man made some sound effect. This is a normal occurrence, and we always tell him how awesome he is when he does it without realizing it. Manda made the comment that he needed to grow up and work in sound effects. Then she had the idea to make a stop motion video with him.

After breakfast we headed to his room for "supplies". We grabbed some cars and a camera and got to work!

We set up the pictures and snapped the shots. Then we downloaded the pictures and put them in order and added some audio. Now this was a much longer process than it seems written out here, but we're going to discuss how to make the videos more in depth on a Wired Wednesday post. 

Here's our video:

 Hope you enjoyed our stop motion animation! Have you ever done anything like this? We'd love to see it! 

Also, if you haven't already...be sure to get your entries in for the giveaways we're hosting. You can enter here. 

Make It Monday: Bottle Cap Craft

Last week, I asked Lil Man if he wanted to make a bottle cap craft with me. He got all excited and said he knew exactly what he wanted to make! It wasn't quite the bottle cap craft I had in mind, but it was fun getting to watch his craft come together!

It all started with some bottle caps and colored paper.

I helped trace the bottle caps onto paper. Then used Mod Podge to attach the paper to the caps.

He drew a sun, we made some clouds, and a road. Then put it all together...

 

Like I said it was not quite what I had in mind, but it was fun watching his creative juices flowing!

Share your bottle cap crafts with us! I'm going to be working on some different bottle cap crafts in the coming weeks!

Make It Monday: Lunch Skewers

Today we had a really fun lunch and wanted to share it as our Make It Monday! Lil Man was excited about lunch today because it was fun, yummy, and healthy! Our lunch was inspired by this pin...





Our dining room table was covered with a makings of a craft project, so we had a picnic at the coffee table in the living room.

Here's what is pictured above: wooden skewers, Catalina dressing (in the colorful bowls), spinach, mandarin oranges, ham, bananas, vanilla yogurt, mandarin oranges (again), pineapple, and marshmallows! 

Now at this point I've probably lost you because all of that stuff together doesn't sound quite appetizing. Just stick it out a little longer! 

We had like a pack of 100 skewers, but we each took two and kept reusing them.

Here's the first skewer we tried:

We paired the spinach, mandarin oranges, and ham together and dipped it in Catalina dressing! It was really yummy!

Our second skewer was a little sweeter:

We paired banana, mandarin oranges, pineapple, and marshmallows together and dipped it in vanilla yogurt! Again, it was really yummy! 

We went back and forth between the two different ones. We even had to go back to the kitchen a few times for more ingredients! We definitely enjoyed our yummy, fun, and healthy lunch!

Can you tell he enjoyed it?

He decided to enjoy some of the left over yogurt!

What do you think? Do you like skewers? What do you like on yours? 

 

 

 

Make It Monday: Tank Craft

We hope you are as excited as we are! It's time to kick-off our new weekly schedule! That means it's time for...Make It Monday!

Today we started a schedule with Lil Man and a chore/allowance system! (More coming on all of that soon!) But we are super excited about getting it all set up!

Summer has set in for many of us. Have you heard the dreaded "I'm Bored" yet this summer? Thankfully, with everything we've had going on to start off our summer, Lil Man is pretty good at entertaining himself. For instance, one of the first days of summer he came to me and asked for my help with a making a tank. We thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share a inexpensive, quick, and easy craft for kiddos.

Therefore for our first edition of Make It Monday, we're going to share the small craft that Lil Man wanted to make...

Here's a short little "interview" video of our Lil Man sharing his tank:

He wants to add some type of wheels/track to it and color it, but here's what the "finished" product looks like: 

Here's what you'll need:

                                                      --empty tissue box

                                                      --tape (preferably packaging tape)

                                                      --3 toilet paper rolls 

                                                         (probably could use 1 paper towel roll)

As I said, this is an inexpensive, quick, and easy craft. All of the supplies we had around the house. He actually convinced me to take some tissues out of the box and put them in a basket so he could go ahead and use it. Then he gathered the toilet paper rolls. And we had packaging tape because we were packing boxes getting ready to move. 

Here's how to put it all together:

Slide the three toilet paper rolls together or use a paper towel roll.

Fold in half on one side of the tube. This makes it easier to attach.

Tape around where the rolls meet on each end.

Tape the folded end into the tissue box.

And you're done! Decorate and/or add some tracks/wheels if desired!

I hope you enjoyed our first edition of Make It Monday and this quick craft to curb summer boredom! If you make this craft (or anything) we'd love to see it! Share your Summer Fun ideas!

~Steph

Tuesday...already? Almost Wednesday here...

Due to some technical complications and lots of craziness we were not able to launch our summer line up yesterday. We have decided that we are going to announce the weekly line up today and hopefully a few interactive posts this week. We want to hear from you! Some of it will simply be questions that we are asking and want your opinion on!

Now let's discuss what to look forward to for the Summer line up...
Being home with Lil Man this summer, we're going to try to focus a great deal on fun and educational activities with him. The majority of our posts this summer will be about things we do with him throughout the summer. We're hoping this will be a great resource for parents, babysitters, camp counselors, etc as well as still great stuff for teachers :)

Make It Monday--We will discuss anything that can be made. We will highlight some of our projects over the summer. Each week you may see foods, arts, crafts, etc. Lil Man is excited to debut next week with our first edition of Make It Monday with his small, quick Tank craft!

 

Teacher Feature Tuesday--Each Tuesday (June-July) we will feature a new teacher (TpT teacher-author and blogger {blog is not required}). We're hoping to continue this weekly feature after July, depending on how many responses we get so keep them coming! (So far it's looking pretty good!) If you would like to be one of our featured teachers, please complete the form! This will be a fun way to get to know other TpT teacher-authors and bloggers in the cyber world!

Wired Wednesday--We are going to be working on researching various technology (devices, programs, apps, etc) to share with you. We will be doing reviews and/or tutorials for different technology. We will be adding polls to ask for input on what you'd like to see next!

Thoughtful Thursday--Each Thursday we will discuss things that will get the kiddos thinking! Most of the time this weekly post will have a subject (reading, language arts, math, science, social studies) theme.

Fun & Free Friday--We will share something fun we have done with Lil Man. This may include things such as a game, nature walk, or going to the zoo. We will also be sharing some TpT freebies each week! If you would like your freebie to be featured, please fill out the form.

Weekend Wrap-Up--For our weekend posts we will share things that we did throughout the week that didn't make it onto a different themed day, but that we really want to share. We will also review snippets of our weekly posts and look forward on what's to come!


We are so excited about this new schedule!! Are you ready??


~Steph & Manda