{Halloween Party Drink} Fog Drinks

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A Halloween party drink should be a little eerie and a whole lot of fun. That’s what makes these fog drinks perfect for some holiday fun.

Halloween Party Drink

You’ve got your child’s Halloween party planned.

Spooky decorations?  Check.

Awesome costume?  Check.

Yummy treats for guests to eat?  Check.

But what about that little something to really “wow” your guests and make the party special?

Add a spooky fog drink!  It’s easier than you think.  I promise.

Spooky Fog Drinks

Here’s what we used to create these spooky fog drinks:

• clear glass or punch bowl
• colorful drink like Gatorade or Kool-Aid
• gummy worms
• dry ice (click here to find a store that sells it near you)
• warm weather gloves

Fill your glass with your spooky drink first.

Add gummy worms or other creepy crawlies to the edge of the glass for an extra spooky effect.

Witches Brew

The final ingredient for your foggy witches brew is to add in a few small pieces of dry ice. Our dry ice came in a big brick and we had to chip pieces off of it. Use tongs to handle it or gloves if you must pick it up with your hands. It is very, very cold.

Watch the children’s eyes grow wide with amazement at what you have just created.

You can even use beakers to create a Mad Scientist Potion. Cool, right?

 

Safety Tips for Working with Dry Ice

• Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide gas that we exhale every time we breathe. The foggy smoke is not harmful.  Of course, if you will be using large amounts of dry ice then be sure to work in a well ventilated area to keep good oxygen flow in the room.
• Dry ice is much cooler than regular ice and can give you a freezer burn if you touch it directly so wear gloves when working with it.  It will sink to the bottom of your drink so either wait until fog clears to take a drink or just sip the drink from the top without letting the dry ice actually go into your mouth.  Don’t eat solid dry ice.  It’s way too cold for your body!
• Store dry ice in an insulated cooler, not your freezer.  It is colder than regular ice and will slowly melt in your freezer.  As it melts, it turns from solid carbon dioxide to gaseous carbon dioxide and the air pressure in a confined area of your freezer will increase and could cause damage.
• Buy your dry ice as close as possible to when you plan to use it as it is difficult for you to keep it cold enough to remain solid for more than 8 hours or so in a home environment.

More Kids Activities

This spooky Halloween party drink is sure to be a crowd pleaser!  Have you even made fog drinks?  Let us know if it was as hit.  What other kids activities would you like to have at the perfect Halloween party?

• Halloween Party Game: Mummy Game
• Bats and Mummies {Halloween Party Food}
• Monster Halloween Party ideas

 

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Easy Lunch Idea for Kids: Sandwich Faces

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What mom couldn’t use an easy lunch idea for kids with a new school year right around the corner? Turn a plain ol’ ham sandwich into a fun activity and let little ones create Sandwich Faces!

This simple idea can even work if you’re looking for snacks for picky eaters. Choosing food that your child enjoys will make it that much more fun to use their imagination!  We partnered with Nature’s Own, a Kid’s Activities Blog sponsor, to bring you these cute sandwiches your kids will love!

Easy Lunch Idea for Kids

When packing a school lunch, we make sure to use quality products that taste great. There’s nothing worse than opening a lunchbox to a soggy sandwich! That’s why we choose to serve Nature’s Own breads to our family. We tried three different varieties: Nature’s Own Butterbread, Nature’s Own Honey Wheat Bread, and Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat Bread.

I trust the quality of Nature’s Own breads because they contain no artificial preservatives, colors, or flavors, and no fructose corn syrup. My family loves the Honey Wheat Bread, but any variety will do for this easy lunch idea.

Here’s what you need to make Sandwich Faces:

• Nature’s Own bread
• Lunch meat (we used smoked ham and black forest ham)
• Swiss cheese, sliced
• Cheddar cheese, sliced
• Vegetables (sliced olives, bell peppers, cucumbers, pickles, and tomatoes work well!)
• Other snacks like pepperoni, pretzel sticks, etc!
• Cupcake liners

Cut cheese into circles and other shapes to create the base for the eyes and mouth of your face. Place meat and cheese between two slices of bread and package if you are sending as a school lunch.

In a smaller container, separate vegetables and snacks using the cupcake liners and add to your child’s lunchbox. Now they have everything they need to make a fun sandwich face!

Assembling the silly faces is really easy — my son had so much fun using all of our different pieces to make our creations!

For more fun lunch ideas be sure to connect with Nature’s Own on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Nature’s Own. The opinions and text are all mine.

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Rubber-Neck Dance

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80+ Paper Plate Crafts for Kids

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Paper plate crafts are so much fun!  I’ll bet you never knew just how many awesome things you can make from a simple paper plate.  It’s amazing what you can do with a little creativity.

Here are some really incredible crafts made from the ordinary paper plate.  If you’ve got your own ideas, scroll to the bottom and share them with us!

80+ Paper Plate Crafts for Kids

1. Make a sparkly fairy mask for dress-up using a paper plate.  You can change the colors and make this mask into any of your favorite characters.

2.  Did you realize you can make a pinata out of paper plates?  You can!  Try this out for your next birthday party or celebration.

3.  Use a paper plate to make this adorable yellow bird.  This is the perfect craft to welcome Spring.

4.  Make a beautiful bouquet of red roses out of paper plates.  This would be so much fun for a pretend flower shop!

5. Make a boat!  Use paper plates for a boat craft that would go great with a lesson on the Mayflower and pilgrims.

6. This flying snake is colorful and fun to play with.

7. Make a game of outdoor checkers with chalk and paper plates as the game pieces.

8.  Fun for Easter or any season, make an adorable paper plate bunny.

9.  This paper plate spider would be a fun DIY for a child preparing for a Halloween party!

10. You can make this fun red barn with some paint and a paper plate.

Below are the rest of the amazing crafts.  You can even add your own!  By linking up, you give other blogs permission to link back to your site and use one photo in a roundup post.  Family friendly links only, please.

An InLinkz Link-up

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Princess Dot to Dot {Free Kids Printable}

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Let’s work on our counting skills with these fun and free Princess Dot to Dot printables!

Dot to dot coloring pages are great for practising numbers and developing drawing skills at the same time!

Princess Dot to Dot Free Printables

Let’s put on a tiara and have some royal fun! I mean who doesn’t love princesses (OK girls probably love them a bit more)!

The Princess Dot to Dot Free Printables Pack Includes:

• 1 page with a simple crown  (with numbers up to 7).
• 1 page with a simple princess (with numbers up to 9).
• 1 page with a princess face (with numbers up to 18).
• 1 page with a princess and her horse (with numbers up to 33).
• 1 page with a princess (with numbers up to 43).

Click to download and print: Princess Dot to Dot

More Royal Printables

I really, really wanted to have a castle when I was a kid (size didn’t really matter – either a doll castle or a real one). If your kids want their own castle you can make that wish come true with this fun printable castle set.

More Royal & Princess Activities

Let’s get crafty and make a bunch of adorable princes paper dolls (you can quickly make all of your kids favourite princesses). Also check this this DIY castle toy chest project.

 

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Lotsa Color Activities for Preschoolers & Toddlers Too!

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Learning colors seems to be one of the first things that toddlers and preschoolers grasp.

I don’t know the technical, or developmental approach to learning colors, but I do know a lot of fun ways to foster learning colors for toddlers and preschoolers! We have done so many color activities!

Color Activities for Preschoolers (& lots of ’em)!

From color activities that help preschoolers recognize the differences in colors, labeling them and so forth, toactivities that focus on sorting by color and then getting into the fun of what happens when colors are mixed!

Whatever the stage your preschooler (or toddler) is at…

Color Recognition Activities for Preschoolers

Recognizing anything is the first step to learning. By recognizing colors, preschoolers are learning to see that there are differences in colors. While this may be basic for some preschoolers, many toddlers know their colors, these color activities are more advanced that preschoolers will have a blast with them!

• Go on a toy color scavenger hunt to make a rainbow! (shown above)
• No toys to hunt for? (haha, right?) No Time for Flash Cards uses pieces of scrap paper instead to make a rainbow.
• Connect the cans of food by the colored paper!
• Remember the game, Simon? Toddler Approved makes a version of Simon with colors of sidewalk chalk!
• Combine a snack with learning colors and make a Fruity O’s rainbow!
• Head outside and go on a nature color hunt like NurtureStore does.
• Simple Fun for Kids gets them moving and makes it a gross motor color game!

Sorting by Color Activities for Preschoolers

Sorting by color is an extension of color recognition in my book. But these color activities are ones that particularly focus on actually sorting the colors from each other, dividing up two or more.

• Make a sensory bag to sort the colored buttons in their corresponding circle.
• Simpler yet, sort colored buttons in cups!
• Or sort crayons, or toys, in small cups that you paint each primary color.
• Make a quick and easy color sorting busy bag! Learning and Exploring Through Play has the how-to.
• Do a quick color sort of Fruit Loops before making them into necklaces like Lil’ Scholars University.
• Get the kids moving by adding in a play tunnel to sort their blocks by color!
• Sort through scraps of paper by color and make color collages.
• School Time Snippets makes a cool Velcro tower to sort by color, take a look at it!

Mixing Color Activities for Preschoolers

Learning colors doesn’t have to be just recognizing them! It becomes magical when you start mixing colors together! Take any two of the three primary colors at a time and try any of the following activities to learn what color they make together!

• Mix colors together in jars by transferring colored water with paper towels. (PBS)
• Melt and mix colors with frozen paint on a hot, hot day!
• Magically mix colors with the infamous color changing milk experiment.
• A no-mess color activity to see how colors mix together on a window.
• Mix each of the primary colors to make every color of the rainbow on the window!
• No Time for Flash Cards mixes colors in the snow!
• Mix together two colors with play dough.
• Make pumpkin suncatchers with red and yellow!
• True Aim Education sets it up to explore colors on the window.
• Magical or technical? Learn about light refraction and mixing colors together! Get the know-how from De Tout Et De Rien.
• Grab your eye droppers and drop colors together to see what they make like Picklebums.
• Have a walking water color mixing experiment!
• Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds does some color mixing in a bottle with marbles!
• Always cool and magical! Change the colors of a flower, mix two colors together to see what they create like Homegrown Friends.
• Spin art color mixing – http://ift.tt/1L4zD09
• Explore mixing colors in motion by spinning tops! You have to see this at Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational!

Now, how’s that for some fun color activities for preschoolers? There’s so much more going on than just learning colors! And they won’t even know it, its so much fun!

Keep the learning fun for preschoolers!

• 50 Ways to Learn the Alphabet (without worksheets)!
• 35 Name Activities for Preschoolers
• 40 Awesome Number Activities for Preschoolers
• Don’t be Square, Toddler Shape Activities

The LEARN eBook of 5 weekly plans of learning activitiesis perfect for the preschooler age. Fun ways for preschoolers to learn the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and have fun as a family! Each weekly plan includes a handy supply list and activities broken down to know exactly what to do in a simple sentence or two.

 

Get your weekly activity plans here.

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Lotsa Color Activities for Preschoolers & Toddlers Too!

hands on : as we grow http://ift.tt/1JLFwms

Learning colors seems to be one of the first things that toddlers and preschoolers grasp.

I don’t know the technical, or developmental approach to learning colors, but I do know a lot of fun ways to foster learning colors for toddlers and preschoolers! We have done so many color activities!

Color Activities for Preschoolers (& lots of ’em)!

From color activities that help preschoolers recognize the differences in colors, labeling them and so forth, toactivities that focus on sorting by color and then getting into the fun of what happens when colors are mixed!

Whatever the stage your preschooler (or toddler) is at…

Color Recognition Activities for Preschoolers

Recognizing anything is the first step to learning. By recognizing colors, preschoolers are learning to see that there are differences in colors. While this may be basic for some preschoolers, many toddlers know their colors, these color activities are more advanced that preschoolers will have a blast with them!

• Go on a toy color scavenger hunt to make a rainbow! (shown above)
• No toys to hunt for? (haha, right?) No Time for Flash Cards uses pieces of scrap paper instead to make a rainbow.
• Connect the cans of food by the colored paper!
• Remember the game, Simon? Toddler Approved makes a version of Simon with colors of sidewalk chalk!
• Combine a snack with learning colors and make a Fruity O’s rainbow!
• Head outside and go on a nature color hunt like NurtureStore does.
• Simple Fun for Kids gets them moving and makes it a gross motor color game!

Sorting by Color Activities for Preschoolers

Sorting by color is an extension of color recognition in my book. But these color activities are ones that particularly focus on actually sorting the colors from each other, dividing up two or more.

• Make a sensory bag to sort the colored buttons in their corresponding circle.
• Simpler yet, sort colored buttons in cups!
• Or sort crayons, or toys, in small cups that you paint each primary color.
• Make a quick and easy color sorting busy bag! Learning and Exploring Through Play has the how-to.
• Do a quick color sort of Fruit Loops before making them into necklaces like Lil’ Scholars University.
• Get the kids moving by adding in a play tunnel to sort their blocks by color!
• Sort through scraps of paper by color and make color collages.
• School Time Snippets makes a cool Velcro tower to sort by color, take a look at it!

Mixing Color Activities for Preschoolers

Learning colors doesn’t have to be just recognizing them! It becomes magical when you start mixing colors together! Take any two of the three primary colors at a time and try any of the following activities to learn what color they make together!

• Mix colors together in jars by transferring colored water with paper towels. (PBS)
• Melt and mix colors with frozen paint on a hot, hot day!
• Magically mix colors with the infamous color changing milk experiment.
• A no-mess color activity to see how colors mix together on a window.
• Mix each of the primary colors to make every color of the rainbow on the window!
• No Time for Flash Cards mixes colors in the snow!
• Mix together two colors with play dough.
• Make pumpkin suncatchers with red and yellow!
• True Aim Education sets it up to explore colors on the window.
• Magical or technical? Learn about light refraction and mixing colors together! Get the know-how from De Tout Et De Rien.
• Grab your eye droppers and drop colors together to see what they make like Picklebums.
• Have a walking water color mixing experiment!
• Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds does some color mixing in a bottle with marbles!
• Always cool and magical! Change the colors of a flower, mix two colors together to see what they create like Homegrown Friends.
• Spin art color mixing – http://ift.tt/1L4zD09
• Explore mixing colors in motion by spinning tops! You have to see this at Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational!

Now, how’s that for some fun color activities for preschoolers? There’s so much more going on than just learning colors! And they won’t even know it, its so much fun!

Keep the learning fun for preschoolers!

• 50 Ways to Learn the Alphabet (without worksheets)!
• 35 Name Activities for Preschoolers
• 40 Awesome Number Activities for Preschoolers
• Don’t be Square, Toddler Shape Activities

The LEARN eBook of 5 weekly plans of learning activitiesis perfect for the preschooler age. Fun ways for preschoolers to learn the alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes and have fun as a family! Each weekly plan includes a handy supply list and activities broken down to know exactly what to do in a simple sentence or two.

 

Get your weekly activity plans here.

Lotsa Color Activities for Preschoolers & Toddlers Too! on handsonaswegrow.com