Praises of a Wife and Mommy

I have to find new things to get me motivated to play outside.  I miss summer...but winter can be fun to.  First we went to the Dollar Store and purchased balloons.  Then we filled them up with water and food coloring and set them outside to freeze.  :) We had all different sizes and lots of different colors.  The next day it was time to bundle up and enjoy the sunshine and our frozen ice to make some sculptors.     Holding a pink one because pink is cool.    Trying to stack them up.  Caution when you take the balloons off I had some that were not frozen all the way through so they were not round and smooth and ice can become sharp so just throw off to the side if they are not playable.   Love how the sunlight is hitting it and the snow sticking to it.   She wanted to stomp on them here. 

Another pintrest.com find so lets thank: Share and Remember  for this idea.   All you need is a little milk mixed with some food coloring and then let your child have fun with a paint brush.   Here are the supplies: My daughter picked purple, pink, and green for colors.   Painting and loving it... I always catch her concentration face.   Before it goes in the toaster... and out of the toaster.  I love how the colors popped!  (White bread would work better but we only had Whole Wheat.) A few more because she wanted ever one in the family to have "party bread." Daddy wanted a bagle so we did that too.   Tasty!  :) The entire time my daughter thought it was frosting!  hehehe I let my daughter design each on her own but the possibilities are endless... you could work on patterns, or shapes, or if you are talented create some wonderful masterpiece!  

I got this fun idea from Mom to 2 Posh Lil  Divas  through her Sunday Showcase Linky.   I love finding fun activities to do in the summer when we have the hot temperatures.  We have to beat the heat somehow and there are so many fun crafts and activities to do with the little ones.  :)  I did not do all the educational things that Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas did since my daughter is a bit young to be learning measurement things.  Click her link above to see how she did it.  Here is what I did: 1. filled water balloons with water and put in freezer. 2. The next day I got the balloons out and filled one up with water then had all my supplies on a tray. I put food coloring with water in little muffin tins and found a medicine dropper to use to squirt the ice with. 3.  When we got outside I showed Selah the frozen balloons and the non frozen one.  We talked about the similarities and differences.  (hard, squishy, warm, heavy, light...