I saw it on Pinterest- Zap!

Here is a fun and quite simple math game that I found on Pinterest.

Materials:

• Scissors
• Liquid glue (I used Elmers clear school glue)
• Popsicle sticks
• Pencil
• Paper
• A non see through cup or container

Prep:

• write several math equations for your child's level on to paper.
• cut each equation and glue it on to the end of a stick.
• On a few of the sticks write ZAP!
• Place all of the stick in the cup pointed down.

How to play:

1 player at a time chooses a stick.  If they answer the equation correctly they keep the stick. If they answer incorrectly the stick goes back into the cup.  If you pull a ZAP! stick all of your sticks go back into the cup.  The first player to 10 sticks wins.

What great ideas have you followed through with from Pinterest this week?  It doesn't have to be a learning activity it could be a recipe... or a refashion... Link up!

CD Spinning

I got this idea from a craft my friend's children did at a library activity day.  A really cool CD Top.
Here's what you need:

Markers
A CD
A plastic pop bottle cap
A marble
Scissors
Hot Glue
Paper
Elmer's glue

Step 1: Trace the CD on to the paper and let your child wildly color the template you have just made.

Step 2: Cut out the paper CD and glue it to the top of the real CD.  Make sure the center hole lines up.

Step 3: Hot glue the marble to the center of the underside of the CD.

Step 4: Hot glue the bottle cap to the center of the top side of the CD.

Step 5: Be amazed at how long these babies spin for.

Junk Jar.

Now I do know that there have been some people posting about not using food in crafts, sensory bins...etc. So if you are a blogger against multi-purposed food then stop reading now.

Yesterday I made a "junk jar"!  Some people call them I-Spy jars, but since my motivation for this came from my friend Jackie over at Pocket Full of Posies (who has really great alphabet and sensory bin ideas) I decided to use her name for it.

 So here's how:

Materials:
Clean peanut butter jar (ours is a no nuts substitute due to allergies)
small "junk" collected from around your house
Rice

Step 1: Open jar
Step 2: Put junk into jar
Step 3: Cover with rice
Step 4: Replace lid on jar (you can glue it with hot glue if you want to but i kind of want to change my junk every once in a while so I didn't)
Step 5: Shake
Step 6: Spy your junk.

Totally a hit at my house. Meadow has been stealing it from Hudson and scooting her little bum away just as fast as she can go.

Ocean in a Bottle

I totally loved this craft and so did Hudson. He made an ocean in a bottle as a gift for his sister's birthday. Now I know i got this idea form someone else's blog but I really can not for the life of me remember where I found it. Here is my tutorial.

Materials:
plastic bottle
water
food coloring
cooking oil
sparkles, sequence and other small trinkets
glue gun
funnel

1. Star by filling a plastic bottle 2/3 full of water.(we started out using a measuring cup but found that pouring from another bottle was much easier).

2. Add some drops of blue food coloring and little green if you want as well.  Put the cap on the bottle and shake to mix the color.

3. Remove the cap and  add sequence, sparkles, pretty buttons (get creative with this step).

4. Top up the bottle with cooking oil.
5. Place a circle of hot glue inside the bottle cap and screw on tightly.

Voila an ocean in a bottle!