No Time for REAL cupcakes !

     Wow, I have been M.I.A. all week long huh?

   It has been yet another hectic week. But why am I surprised? It IS the end of the school year! 

Well aside from it being the end of the school year, I have some good reasons as to why there has been NO TIME for REAL cupcakes!  =(

On Wednesday, my little muchkin had her 1^st little ballet/tap recital  and well, stage fright got the best of her… 

   Then some friends from Chicago came in to visit and we had lots of catching up to do…

   Then my Head Start organization sponsored a Masquerade Ball for the children and their families on Friday night. There was a lot of crazy preschool fun going on last night! =)

   Anyhow, our out-of-town friends left this afternoon, so life is a bit back to normal. Or as normal as it can get this time of year.

   Throughout the busy week, we struggled with some pretty warm weather, which put my plans to bake cupcakes with my little munchkin, aside. I resent the fact that this house that we are renting has NO air!!  We are definitely going to be spending some money on a decent size air conditioner if the temps, here in WNY, continue to climb!

    Anyhow, so instead of baking cupcakes and having to turn on the oven, I did the next best thing. It was actually something I was going to do anyway... I made a Cupcake Sensory Bin!

    All it took was some cupcake liners, a box of cake mix, some sprinkles, a few measuring spoons and a cupcake pan. And there we had it- a yummy looking and smelling sensory bin! 

   My little munchkin had lots of fun dumping and filling the cupcake liners and pans. It was a complete mess to clean up. She had flour and cake mix all over herself- it was like she actually had been in the kitchen baking cupcakes!!

   Then I came across some Crayola Model Magic Dream Bakery kit on clearance at Target. It was just yet another cupcake thing for my little munchkin to do instead of making REAL cupcakes!

   And I couldn’t forget to have her try out the new Alphabet Matching game I created just for our Cupcake theme.

   

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    I think I am all cupcaked out! I know she isn’t though. She is obsessed with cupcakes and has been since she was able to eat them! 
    MAYBE the weather will cool off a little and I will be willing to turn on that oven and do some baking with her. If not I will have to settle for some already baked cupcakes that she can decorate herself. NOT the same, but hey… it will still be fun!

Water Bead Sensory Bin!

My munchkin and I were so caught up in doing Easter crafts and such; we got a late start on her April sensory bin.

I had wanted to try water beads with her and I had put them in water (in her sensory bin) like a week ago and they have been just sitting there! I had combined purple and clear water beads but they ended up being pink and purple! 

So I finally pulled out the water beads and toys that I had intended to put in her bin a week ago (mostly Easter type stuff), but she didn’t care! 

She had a blast pouring the water beads inside the eggs and in the funnels. 

She loved her new toys in her sensory bin and it was hard to pull her away from there long enough to get her to eat dinner!

Guess it’s a keeper for the month!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

      In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, I learned how to color rice for my munchkin’s sensory tub- another fun idea from some fellow bloggers! So about a week and a half before the holiday, I made green and yellow rice and added some fun little toys I found at Party City for her to play with in her sensory tub.

As you can see… she loves it! She asks to play with it like every other day....  I think it will just be her sensory tub fun for the entire month of March! 












On Friday, she helped me to sort buttons by color, for her St. Patrick’s Day art activity.

 

After she found all the green buttons, she carefully glued the buttons onto a wooden shamrock shape that I bought at an arts & crafts store on one of my many visits last month!

She started this on Friday evening and she was going strong BUT then she lost interest. So we put it aside and took a break.

She continued working on it Saturday morning after breakfast!

 

Working hard the next morning…

I had some leftover green glitter paint in my classroom from my preschooler munchkins’ St. Patrick’s Day artwork, so I brought it home for my own little munchkin to use to paint her Button Shamrock. 

Finally! A finished product!  That only took 2 days to make! =) 

That’s my little munchkin…doing things on her own schedule!

Ha! And here’s the best part of our St. Patrick’s Day fun that turned out to be an EPIC Fail ---- Green Shamrock Jello Jigglers!!

They DID NoT turn out very jiggly… =(

I think I needed either a smaller dish or more jello because it was just not happening for us!

We only managed to get ONE good looking Green Shamrock Jello Jiggler!

Better LUCK next year, I guess!

Hope everyone had a great St. Patrick’s Day weekend!!!