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Terri Thompson

DIY Trail Mix Bar

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Our daily snacks are usually quite simple: fruit, apple sauce, cheese sticks, or crackers.

I had been trying to come up with a few more interesting choices when the thought occurred to me that I could let the girls make their own snacks with a DIY Trail Mix Bar.

Trail mix can be quite yummy and is a perfect snack choice. It’s healthy, fun to make, and fun to eat.

But this time, instead of making it myself, I let each girl control the ingredients in her trail mix.

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I purchased dried fruit and cereal that I knew the girls would love.

We used golden raisins, raisins, dried pineapple, mini chocolate chips, coconut, and Cheerios.

You can add whatever your kids would enjoy.

Trail Mix Ingredients

Raisins
Golden Raisins
Dried Pineapple
Dried Cranberries
Dried Papaya
Banana Chips
Coconut
Sunflower Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Nuts
Cheerios
Any dried cereal
Mini chocolate chips
Mini M&M’s
Granola
Pretzels

Select 5 to 6 ingredients that you know your child enjoys.

Place each in a separate bowl with a spoon.

Give each child a separate storage container and let them mix up their own custom trail mix.

My girls love having control of their own snack and they mixed up enough to enjoy for several days.

I know this is not going to be a one-time only activity for us.

It was easy to put together and their girls had fun.

Plus, they’re not going to complain at snack time when they’re presented with their own kid-made snack!

Do you have any other ideas for trail mix ingredients? Let me know and I’ll add them to the list!

Raspberry White Chocolate Ice Pops

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We’ve been a bit addicted to ice pops this summer.

We’ve tried recipes from magazines, cook books, and Pinterest.

We discovered what we liked and what we didn’t like.

Then we started making our own concoctions.

These Raspberry White Chocolate Ice Pops are one of our recent creations. They are easy to make, drip free, and are very yummy.

This is the perfect recipe for your kids to try. My girls are able to make them from start to finish with just a little bit of instruction from me.

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Ingredients:

1 package White Chocolate Instant Pudding
2 cups milk
1 (6 oz). container of raspberry yogurt
6 ice pop molds (or 6 paper cups with wooden sticks)

1. Combine your pudding mix and milk in a bowl. Whisk together until smooth and thick.

2. Fill your molds 1/3 full of your pudding mix. Add about 2 Tablespoons yogurt to the mold, then top off with your pudding mix again.

3. Run a table knife up and down in each mold to swirl and mix the flavors. Add the sticks. Freeze overnight or until completely frozen.

4. Remove from molds and enjoy!

*Special note on our ice pop molds: I’ve tried many different ice pop molds over the years and these Tovolo Groovy Ice Pop Molds are my favorites. They’re BPA free, the stick stays put, and the shape is awesome. Ours were purchased through Amazon.

You can mix up the pudding and yogurt flavors to come up with fun combinations of your own. Try chocolate pudding and vanilla yogurt, vanilla pudding and strawberry yogurt, or white chocolate pudding and blueberry yogurt. All would be delicious!

What is your favorite ice pop combination?

10 Ways to Play this Weekend: Week 48

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  1. Do some water squirter math with Kitchen Counter Chronicles
  2. Read a story from around the world with Kid World Citizen
  3. Interview your grandparents using these free printable interview questions from The House of Hendrix
  4. Draw on the floor with Hands On: How We Grow!
  5. Make your own soap crayons to play with in the bath with Childhood 101
  6. Work a 3-D word search with No Time for Flash Cards
  7. Set up a simple lab to explore rock and minerals with An Everyday Story
  8. Make frozen s’mores for a special treat with Reading Confetti
  9. Draw a life-size whale with KC Edventures
  10. Make a simple and cute firefly craft with There’s Just One Mommy

How are you going to play this weekend?

Classic Crafts ~ Painted Rock Turtles

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Did you ever paint rocks when you were a kid?

It’s always so much fun to see what you can create on a smooth rock surface.

We’ve painted rocks in the past, that time using abstract designs.

But, this time we wanted to turn them into animals.

Keep reading and I’ll show you how to turn a rock into a cute turtle.

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Supplies Needed:

Craft paint in varying colors of green
Paint brushes
Rocks (Look for rocks that are rounded with a smooth surface)

*Note: I used acrylic craft paint for a darker, even coat. Try to avoid washable paint as it will not cover the rock’s surface as well.

Step 1: Paint the top and sides of your rock in the medium green color.

Step 2: Use your darkest green color to paint circles in increasing size from the middle to the end of your medium green paint.

Step 3: Still using your dark green, paint straight lines from the center to the outer edges. It will look like a spider web.

Step 4: Use all three of your colors to create spaces of differing colors; use a pattern or just randomly paint in the different sections.

At this point, you can also use your darkest green color to paint a head, tail, and feet on your turtle.

There you have it, a cute little round turtle.

But, don’t limit yourself to turtles. Create a whole menagerie of animals! Try a ladybug, snail, mouse, or frogs.

You are only limited by your imagination.

10 Ways to Play this Weekend: Week 47

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  1. Play in a pretty rose petal sensory tub with NurtureStore
  2. Draw with homemade glow-in-the-dark sidewalk chalk with Coffee Cups and Crayons
  3. Play backyard Bananagrams with Constantly Lovestruck
  4. Make fun superhero sock puppets with Seven Thirty Three
  5. Play a dump truck counting game with Inspiration Laboratories
  6. Pretend to be Michelangelo and create a masterpiece with Classic Play
  7. Make fruit kabobs to share with Kids Activities Blog
  8. Make a homemade skee ball game from a cardboard box with Frugal Fun for Boys
  9. Learn left and right with a little fancy footwork with Childhood 101
  10. Make your own paper plate tambourines with Creative Family Fun
How are you going to play this weekend?