Fun with the Kids Friday: Leprechaun Clover Attack

Today is Friday. Yippee.

I love Fridays. They mark the end of a week. The beginning of a weekend. The start of extended time with my sweet little family. Friday night is family movie night. We love Fridays.

Here on the blog we love Fridays because it is time for Fun with Kids Fridays.

We had really fun this week with our fun activity.

This week my Little Men were Little Leprechauns since St. Patrick's Day is so close.

We clover attacked our most favorite person. We wanted him to know just how lucky we feel to have him.

We printed and cut out these four leaf clovers that I made in PicMonkey.

We gathered up our clovers and sneaked over to Dad's work.

While Hunky Hubby was nestled in his office hard at work, our busy Little Leprechauns were hard at work themselves.

We taped our lucky clovers all over the inside of Hubby's car.

We enjoyed ourselves quite a bit.

The boys had fun and hubby really enjoyed his surprise, which made the whole experience even better.

Who do you feel lucky to have in your life? Want your Little Leprechauns to throw their own clover attack?

Just download the Leprechaun Clover Attack Tags HERE. Print them out, cut them and tape them up. Make someone's day.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful Friday.

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Fun with the Kids Friday: Dr. Seuss' Birthday

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss. The author of children's imagination and inspiration.

For Fun with the Kids Friday I wanted to share this celebration we had in honor of Dr. Seuss.

We had so much fun.

I had fun.

My boys weren't expecting a party and their excited surprise was fun to see.

As most households, we have a loved stack of Dr. Seuss books.

All our party fun was centered around then.

 The colors. The food. The green eggs.

Along with the green eggs we had ham, of course, and we had One fish, Two fish GOLDFISH. 
 

Everyone enjoyed. We were even happy to have Little's bestest friend join us for our SEUSStastical celebration.

Once the little snack was over, it was time for arts and crafts!

Time to make some SEUSS inspired tees.

Fabric Sharpies, white t-shirts, and loads of imagination was all we needed to start the fun.

They each grabbed something Seuss to inspire them.

It took a lot of concentration.

I was pretty impressed with Oldest's shirt. He is excited to wear it on Monday when his class celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday.

We recently got the movie "The Lorax". We have watched it a lot, my boys are often referring to themselves as "keepers of the trees."

I wasn't surprised that was what Middle chose to draw on his shirt.

Little went crazy drawing anything he wanted.

Then he decided I needed to draw the mad fish from One Fish, Two Fish.
 

The boys enjoyed making the t-shirts, and they really, really loved the green eggs.

Dr. Seuss contributed so much to reading and children's literature. I remember Green Eggs and Ham being one of the first books I read. It was the first book that Middle read too.

In fact, one of my favorite sayings from Dr. Seuss' literature is, "Oh the THINKS you can think up if only you try".

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Thanks for giving us an excuse to have a celebration.

Fun with the Kids Friday: Kool-Aid Glue Painting

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I had some bored kids recently pacing back and forth, ranting and raving, and altogether being rather unpleasant.

I think we have grown weary of winter...and by think I mean know.

We were actually seeing some of the grass and then it snowed. Oh grass, it was nice to see you for awhile.

So our recent answer to being stir crazy was some painting fun.

What made it so fun you ask?

Uh first...Kool-Aid.

Second...GLUE.

Combine one Kool-Aid packet and a bottle of glue and you have sticky, colorful, wonderful smelling paint.

Then after some stirring and lid replacing, it turns into the one of the most fun painting mediums ever.

Plus it also is an excellent answer to the stir-crazies.

Just roll up the sleeves, put on T-shirt Painters Smock, and start squeezing the Kool-Aid glue all over a giant piece of poster board.

Sometimes it takes so much concentration, one's tongue involuntarily must stick out.

This was a great activity for a stuck-in-the-house afternoon.

I will say that while all the boys enjoyed it, my almost four year old enjoyed it the most. He started first and ended last. Then he went back later...gasp ... smock-less and ended up covered in Kool-Aid glue paint.

I couldn't be mad, he was having fun, being creative, and had this look on his face.

Kool-Aid Painting passed the test. Good fun had by all.

Fun with the Kids Fridays: Cardboard Indoor Hockey

A couple of weeks ago we weren't only snowed in, but we were also sub-temperatured in...totally a word...

The weather was so cold we even had a snow day due to negative temperatures. Needless to say we were desperately in need of some indoor fun and a little bit of off-our-fannies-time.

I got an idea to use our old wrapping paper tubes and some cardboard to make hockey sticks. Which of course are only useful if you are going to use them to play some hockey.

After just an hour of cutting, tapping, and moving furniture we were ready for some indoor hockey.

One on one indoor hockey to be precise.

With one player waiting his turn in the penalty box. Not always happily waiting either.

Hahahaha...man I love that face. He eventually got his turn.

He shoot, he scores!

GOOAAAAAL.

Defending the goal.

Do your kids wanna play some indoor hockey?

Let's make the stick and the puck.

First you need wrapping paper tubes, duct tape, paddle-type shape (yes I am sure there is an accurate name for this and I could look it up, but that would imply I know something about hockey) cut out of cardboard, and foam (or anything soft).

Cut two 3-4 inch slits across from each other at one end of the tube. Slide the neck part of the paddle into the slits.

Cut strips of duct tape. Then cut those stripes in half, making skinnier strips. Wrap the skinny strips around the neck of the paddle securing it to the tube. Wrap a lot.

Then using more strips of duct tape (not halved) and wrap the opposite end of the tube. Go ahead and add some decorative sporty stripes.

You can even add a design to the paddle. We also personalized our sticks by giving our players nicknames and writing that on the handle.

To make the puck, simply wrap the circle cut out of foam in black duct tape until it is covered and smooth.

Another thing we did to make the hockey more fun, was to make indoor skates using wax paper and rubber bands.

Cut out rectangle sheets of wax paper large enough to fully encase each foot. Wrap each foot in several layers and then loosely attach with a large rubber band (aka Do no cut off circulation. We would like them to keep their feet.).

This will in effect make the floor "slippery".

DISCLAIMER: Since the wax paper can make it slippery, there may be falling. So be careful. Also, my bigger Little Men tore through their wax paper skates really fast and ended up just taking them off halfway through.

With their hockey sticks and wax paper skates, they were ready to get down to business. With the furniture cleared, I taped two goal boxes to the floor on opposite sides of the room. Let the scoring begin.

Merriment and a little body-checking was done by all.  The boys had such a good time and were rough enough that I had to keep a roll of duct tape around to repair the hockey sticks of the older two.

I always think it is amazing how much fun can be created with cardboard and duct tape!

Thanks for reading!

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