This Saturday, July 2nd, Home Depot is having another FREE workshop for kids, ages 5-12. The event is 9am – 12pm. This week they are making a coaster set. The kids will not only get their completed project, but also receive a kid-size orange apron and achievement pin.
Visit their site for more information and finding a local store.
Lowe’s offers a great ‘Build and Grow’ Clinic. This Saturday, June 25th at 10am, the kids are building a Waving Flag just in time for the 4th of July!
The first 50 to register and be present at the store will receive the kit, an apron, and goggles. the recommended ages is 1st-5th grade.
For more information, store locations, and preregistration visit Lowe’s Build And Grow.
Since tomorrow is Father’s Day, I thought I would show you what I did for Father’s Day last year with my toddler. I posted this around Mother’s Day, but if you haven’t seen it, go view the Finger Paint Picture. The hubby loved it, and it still sits on his desk at work!
My husband likes to play golf and I saw a cake similar to this on a website awhile back using coconut. I thought I would try to make it with white chocolate shavings instead (The hubby isn’t a big fan of coconut). I am very pleased with the way it turned out!
NEED:
Bake cake mix as instructed in two round pans. After they cool, I laid them overlapping a little, and cut the overlapping cake. I put the cake on a foil-covered piece of cardboard; You can use a serving platter. Next, dye your icing green and spread over the whole cake.
I didn’t have a block of white chocolate, so I melted a bag of white chocolate chips in a wax paper lined plastic container and froze it making my own little block. Next, make shavings for the grass using a vegetable peeler. Put the shavings in a container and spray them with the green icing color, shaking the over all the shavings. It is easier to do it in small batches. Cover the cake except for where the hole will be and a couple sand dunes. Crumble the vanilla wafers a sprinkle to create sand dunes. First, I push the spots down a little, to get a little depth.
Push a chocolate chip, flat-side up, for the hole. Place a few white gum balls as golf balls. I didn’t have any gum balls, so I barely melted some of the white chocolate and formed little balls. Last is the flag. I didn’t have any pretzels and couldn’t think of anything else to use, so I just rolled up a small piece of white construction paper and used a red piece for the flag.
It isn’t as hard as it looks!
This Saturday, June 18th, Home Depot is having another FREE workshop for kids, ages 5-12. The event is 9am – 12pm. This is a special Father’s Day workshop. The kids will not only get their completed project, but also receive a kid-size orange apron and achievement pin.
Visit their site for more information and finding a local store.
This is such a cute idea! My sister-in-law made these cute chalkboard frames and I just had to share them with you. Not only do they look amazing, they are easy to make.
She got some large frames at a garage sale for cheap. Next, she painted some thin boards with magnetic primer paint and then chalkboard paint. The paint is really where all the cost is. They cost about $30 total. You could always just do the chalkboard paint to save some money. Chalkboard paint comes in all sorts of colors, so you can match a playroom, or kids bedroom. Lastly, she used a staple gun and some brad nails to attach them to the walls.
I can’t wait to try this!
That’s how I have felt lately, but not that bad, and it’s more in a good way… You may have noticed I haven’t been posting as much this past week and/or I have been a little behind. I just wanted to give my wonderful readers a little update on what’s going on over here. It have been a little crazy, but mostly a good crazy! Why?!?!…..
We found out we are having another baby! We are very excited, but it has made me one tired Momma. Chasing around an almost 2 year old and 9 month old wears me out as it is! I normally write posts after the boys all go to bed. But lately, I have just been so tired I just go right to bed.
Since our family is growing again, we started looking at new houses this week. It has been so time consuming just looking at them online. That is taking up a lot of my ‘me’ time as well. We are going to look at some houses this weekend, so my normal Weekly Ad Top Deals might be a little later than usual.
Don’t worry, I am posting as much as I can and as many deals as I can find for you.
Also, I would like to welcome all my newest readers! Glad you are here. Here is a tentative schedule of some of the post you will find each week:
I will keep you updated on any changes, etc. Thank you for being a Nifty Mom reader!
Don’t forget, my giveaway ends Tuesday, June 14 and there aren’t that many entries so go enter.