Summer is almost here!

I loooooooooooooooooooove summer! I thought I'd tell you some of my favorite things to do in summer, while I work on doing a post with lots of recent photos in it. I can't post it yet, because there are so many photos and it will take a while. 


Run through the sprinkler. (Sometimes I play a game with my friends where you have to try to stand right next to it, and at the very last moment try to run away without getting wet.) 

Go to outdoor pools. (My absolute all time favorite one is Sunset Pool.)

Have a squirt gun fight with friends. (You can buy squirt guns at places like Michael's, Target, & Ross.)

Have a contest with friends to see who can stay under freezing cold hose water in a kitty pool the longest. 

Have a lemonade stand, a duct tape wallets and bracelets stand, or a stand where all the money you make goes to endangered species. (National Geographic is good.)

Make ice pops in flavors like lemonade, orange, strawberry, root beer, etc. and see which ice pops taste the best with your friends. 

Run around at the splash ground. 

Buy a pair of plain white flip-flops and decorate them with things like fake flowers, stick-on rhinestones, ribbons, buttons, beads, duct tape, etc.

Have races with friends.

Make a clubhouse in the backyard. (You can use a blanket over a table, a blanket over a tree, or just put your tent in the backyard.)

Have cookouts.

And guess what? This year on Animal Jam there's going to be a summer carnival! Can't wait for that!!!!!! www.animaljam.com

Home camping trip

Yearning for camping? But it's too cold? Guess what? You can have a camping trip in you're very own house!

What you will need: 
A sleeping bag
A lantern (optional)
Marshmallows (if you're mom wants you to eat something healthier, ask her to make these: http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/2011/11/home-made-honey-sweetened-marshmallows.html )
A blank scrapbook
A camera
A computer and printer
Crayons

How to: First, roll out you're sleeping bag on the couch or on the floor. Put the lantern next to it. Then, take a picture of you on you eating marshmallows on the sleeping bag. True, you can't roast them, but I think they taste good anyway, right? If you want, you can draw a picture of a campfire and pretend to roast them with you're dolls and stuffed animals. You can take a picture of that, too. 

Sometimes when I go camping, I buy postcards and mail them to friends. If you want, you can draw pictures of forests or lakes or campsites, and paste them into the scrapbook. You can even add magical forest creatures, like gnomes, phoenixes, dragons, and forest fairies. If you have a stuffed magical creature, (or a magical creature doll) you can place it in front of a drawn picture of the woods and take a photo. Or you can take a photo of a magical creature in the woods in a fairy tale book. (Make sure you can't see the words!) 

Finally, print out all the pictures you took and paste them into the scrapbook. (Glue sticks work best.) For extra decoration, draw things like leaves, mushrooms, flowers, etc. around them. Presto-wham-o! Not only was that fun, but you also made a really cool scrapbook, right? =)

How to make a duct tape bracelet

Step one: Choose some duct tape. =)

Step two: Take one long, piece of duct tape. Make sure it's long enough to fit around you're wrist and take off without having to cut it off. Then pull off the the same amount as before again. But keep it in one piece.

Step three: Cut it off. Then fold it together. Next, cut it down the middle so it's thinner. Then tape it together. 

Have fun!

Campout themed birthday party!

It's that time of year when lots of kids are having birthdays. Here is a party that you that I came up with that you might want to have for your party!

Campout themed party!

For invitations:  Draw tents on pieces of paper, Then write the party details inside. (You know, time, date, where, please bring, etc.)

Activities: When your friends get to your house, help them carry they're sleeping bags and pillows out to a big tent in your backyard. Then you can get the activities started! You can make glow-in-the-dark necklaces with glow-in-the-dark beads found out craft stores such as Michael's and Hobby Lobby. After that it will probably be dinner time, and you can have hamburgers or hotdogs, or whatever you usually eat when you go camping.

 Then you can have cake and open presents, and after that, you can roast marshmallows on your grill. (I just love roasted marshmallows, don't you?!) Then you can watch a movie in the tent. You can even sleep in the tent when it's time to go to bed! Oh, and you can sign each other's pillow cases with permanent markers. Just make sure its okay with you and your friends' parents to do it first. 

For party favors: The glow-in-the-dark necklaces work as activities and party favors, but if you feel that's not enough, you can also hand out mini flashlights or trail-mix with candy in it before your friends leave.

For cake: You can have a log shaped cake, with things like flowers, frogs, birds, or even forest fairies on it made out of icing. 

Hope you have a great birthday!

Happy Easter!

Here's a post for Easter!

Easter banner:
You will need:
1 long, piece of paper
Markers 

Instructions: First, outline the words Happy Easter! in big letters. Then the fun begins. Color the H however you want. Then, draw a festive easter egg in the A. Add lots of colors and decorations! After you do that, color in the other letters how you like. But make sure to draw a festive easter egg in both As!

Great Easter books:
Fancy Nancy's Elegant Easter
Happy Easter, Mouse!
Emma The Easter Fairy

Chocolate eggs:
You will need:
Chocolate egg molds
Chocolate
Silver foil
Easter stickers

Directions: Melt chocolate in pan on stove. Then pour into chocolate egg molds and put in freezer until frozen. Next, carefully take the chocolate eggs out and wrap them in silver foil. Seal with Easter stickers. You can give these to friends, hand them out as party favors at an Easter party, or take a picture of them and paste them into a scrapbook so you'll remember what a fun Easter you had. 

Snow in Spring!

                                                          Oh, silly Colorado! =)

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

My friend Lauren let me borrow this great book.

 It's about a orphan girl named Heidi who lives with her Grandfather in the mountains. But then one day Heidi's Aunt Detie comes to take Heidi to live in a mansion with a very rich family away in the city. Heidi becomes friends with Clara, a girl in a wheel chair. She is happy playing and reading with Clara, but she also misses her Grandfather, the mountains, her friend Peter, and Peter's Grannie and mother. Heidi is very homesick, and starts sleepwalking and crying herself to sleep at night. The doctor realizes this, and says that Heidi must go back to Grandfather in the mountains for her health.

Heidi is overjoyed to go home. But she misses Clara too, and Clara misses Heidi. So Clara's father decides to let Clara go to the mountains to visit. The fresh air, fresh goat milk, nature, and beauty of the mountains make Clara healthier. She even learns to walk! Yes, this is a great book that you should definitely read!!!