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How to Gift Wrap a Big Box!

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If you have a big gift you are giving and want it to be really pretty, you need to know how to wrap a big box.   It’s easy!
wrapping a Rockabye Rocker for a gift

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Not long ago, I shared my story  about the joy that plus toy rockers have brought to the little tykes in our family. I received four of them when I was hired by the company to write about these wonderful toys.

Well, three of the rockers went to our kiddos who live nearby  but we held onto the fourth one to give to our great-grandson, Little B, on his first birthday.

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This picture says it all … Little B is in love with his new plush toy rocker! His folks tell us he plays on it every day.
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A plush toy rocker is a gift to remember – perfect for baby shower gifts, birthdays, and any gift-giving occasion. But how do you wrap one? That box is BIG! There are no gift bags large enough to handle it so I did it the old-fashioned way  and wrapped it in wrapping paper.

 

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Large roll of Navy and White Striped Wrapping Paper

How To Wrap A Big Box

How to wrap a big gift box

Supplies

Big Gift Box
Large roll of wrapping paper
Scissors
Tape
Bow or Ribbon
Card (optional)
children's toys, toddler toys
First, put the rocker back in its plastic covering and into its box. (We had it out for the kids to play with when I wrote the previous post.)
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Tape the box closed.

 

 

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Unroll some of the wrapping paper.
Cut two pieces that fit on the ends of the box.
Tape them on each end using rolls of tape.
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Roll out more paper, leaving it on the roll.

Place the box squarely onto the wrapping paper.

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Gently pull the roll up an over the box.
Cut the paper off leaving some extra to overlap it.

Secure the open ends on the underside of the box with tape.

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Now fold the ends around like an envelop and tape them.
The ends will not cover completely but your two ends already have wrapping paper on them. It will look nice!
Add a bow to the top and, if you have one, the card.
Done!

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20 Stunning Home Office Ideas – So Pretty That You Won’t Want To Leave!

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Hi there! I took a little “day dreaming” trip through Pinterest today. I was looking at gorgeous home offices – ultra chic.  And then I found some absolutely cute and adorable home offices that I loved just as well! Good thing I was only window-shopping!
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They really are superb. I could easily take any one of them and work there for hours on end! In fact, there are a few that my family might have to drag me out of. LOL

So, I pinned them all. Take a look. Which one do YOU like best? There are 20, including a few special office décor items. What do you think? Which one would be yours if you could have it?
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Little succulent planters look great in a grouping or are superb on their own on a desk!  Give some away to your best friends if 5 are too many. They’ll love you for it!
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B is for Butterfly Preschool Lesson & Craft

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By far, this is one of the best lessons I have taught in preschool thus far. My little 3 and 4 year old students are fascinated with butterflies and loved every minute of it. Preschool butterfly craft and directions below.

We had so much fun learning about the mysterious life cycle of the butterfly. First, I shared it with a diagram, then we watched it happen in a 2.5 minute You Tube video (below.)

 

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Finally, right before our eyes, we saw it happen. We arrived at school to find that 5 of our caterpillars had successfully emerged from their chrysalises and were flying about the butterfly cage. 

 

Our class meets just one day a week so it was important that we release them in the wild by the end of the day.  But three were still getting ready to emerge. We could see them gyrating, struggling to break free. Before the day’s end, two more were flying around enjoying their new lives. (Sadly, one did not make it.) What an unforgettable experience.

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Butterfly Preschool Craft

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This sweet little craft is very prek-friendly. My little ones are only beginning to learn the use of scissors so, to maximize enjoyment and minimize frustration, we adults pre-cut the templates before class.

B is for Butterfly Preschool Craft

Supplies

Card-stock
Butterfly template
2 large marshmallows per child for paint
Tempera Paint
Jumbo craft stick
Googly eyes (2)
Pipe-cleaners (2) cut to about 2 inches
White Glue
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Directions

Our craft consisted of a template of a butterfly, printed on card-stock and cut out. The students decorated the wings with tempera paint dotted all over using a large marshmallow as a “paint brush.” They dipped the end of the marshmallow in one color and dotted, flipped it over and dipped in a different color.

After the wings dried, they glued googly eyes and pipe cleaners for antennas onto a large craft stick. Then the stick was glued onto the middle of the butterfly wing, as the body. Voila! A Butterfly!

In addition to all this fun, we read the book by Eric Carle: Very Hungry Caterpillar  and we also went on a Butterfly Picture Hunt – a simple little treasure hunt that 3 and 4 year olds thoroughly enjoy!

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A great companion lesson:  C is for Caterpillar!

What other creative ways do your little ones use to paint?

 

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Baby Shower Cake – It’s A Boy!

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This sweet little Teddy Bear with balloons adorns a delicious Baby Shower Cake, made in expectation of the arrival of my newborn great grandson, Ben. 

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Though it was made for a shower for a boy baby, it surely can be made for girl babies or, with a Happy Birthday message instead for a birthday party. The cake’s texture and flavor is reminiscent of a velvety white wedding cake. Can you say “best ever?” It is!

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Baby Shower Cake Recipe

Ingredients
1 box white cake mix
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/3 cups water
1 cup sour cream
2 T cooking  oil
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
round nonstick cake pan

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Directions
Preheat oven to 325°
Grease and flour two 9″ round cake pans
Stir together dry ingredient -white cake mix, flour, sugar and salt – in a large bowl
Add wet ingredients- water, sour cream, oil, almond and vanilla extracts and eggs.
Beat on low speed for about 4 minutes, some lumps will remain.
Pour into prepared pans.
Bake until tops are lightly browned and toothpick comes out clean – about 25 minutes.
Cool.
Remove from pans.

Frost and decorate.   VIDEO: How To Layer and Frost a Cake With Perfectly Smooth Sides

Baby Shower Cake Frosting

Ingredients
1 lb. butter, softened
2 lbs. powdered sugar
1 T vanilla extract
Milk
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Directions
Cream the butter and sugar, adding the sugar a little at a time.
Let it cream in your mixer for about 30 minutes
until very fluffy**
Add vanilla and milk to the consistency you want.
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**This cake was made by my niece, Lauren, who is a professional pastry chef. It is not beneath her to use a box mix as an ingredient once in a while as she did in this case.  The secret to her frosting is that she used a mixer on a stand so that she could blend the frosting ingredients for long periods of time and, let me tell you, it was worth it.   It tasted amazing!
*This White Almond Wedding Cake was derived from the recipe found on All-Recipes

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Baby Shower Punch with Floating Rubber Duckies

      

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17 Themes For You To Make The Best DIY Gift Baskets – including a boy baby basket and a girl baby basket!

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13 Amazing Planters For Your Flower Garden

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Spring and summer are my favorite seasons. I love the beautiful plants that flourish at this time of year. It has been a while since I have been able to actually have flower gardens, primarily due to a lack of time to be outside, so I have greatly enjoyed the beauty of summer by using potted plants on my deck, patio and porch. Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
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In my search for patio garden ideas, I came across 13 amazing planters that I just love. Here are some of the most creative, surprising ways to make flower gardens in planters. Feast on this beautiful selection and tell me which one you like best!  

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Simple Sautéed Mushrooms Recipe

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Tonight we had sizzling rib eye steaks for dinner. I seasoned them with Montreal steak seasoning and then cooked them to perfection on our gas grill. 

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It just so happened that we had some sliced fresh mushrooms on hand. It was simple to put together sautéed mushrooms on the stove to top that luscious slab of beef!  In fact, they looked so pretty on the plate, I wanted share the moment with you. You should make some yourself! The recipe is easy-peasy, I promise you.

 

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How To Make Simple Sautéed Mushrooms

Ingredients
Sliced fresh mushrooms
Salted butter
Cooking sherry
Garlic powder
Salt
Directions
Preheat a non-stick skillet on medium
Melt 2-3 T butter in your skillet.
Add 1-2 T sherry and a dash each of garlic powder and salt, according to taste.
Heat on medium until the mushrooms soften and reduce in size.
Turn heat to low.
Serve them on top of your favorite steak.

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R is for Rainbow – Preschool Craft Fun!

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Rainbows are fascinating to preschoolers and kindergartners, too.  There are so many ways to make it fun to learn about them. You can bake rainbow striped cookies and cakes. You can craft them or paint pictures of them. You can discover rainbows, too, using science experiments. Rainbows are inspiring.

 

Rainbow Preschool Lesson Ideas


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When we study the letter R in our preschool class,  we enjoy RAINBOWS in a variety of fun ways. 

  • We heard the story of Noah and the Ark where the very first rainbow appeared.
  • We used colored rice to create layered rainbows in clear plastic cups.
  • We made a craft rainbow using Fruit Loops cereal.
  • We created a rainbow using a prism and focused it on the wall: How to make a rainbow!
  • We learned about what really makes a rainbow.
For our craft, we used Froot Loops to make a rainbow. This activity allowed us to practice our sorting and color recognition skills along with using our fine motor skills. First we sorted the colorful fruit flavored cereal and then glued the colors onto a template using a cotton swab and white school glue.
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To make the project more interesting, I took egg cartons cut in half and glued a colored circle inside the cups – one for each color of the rainbow. Each child received a pile of cereal to sort into the cup with the right color in it. They did a great job and LOVED doing it–sorting is fun!

How to Make a Rainbow Craft

Supplies

Rainbow template
Fruit Loops dry cereal
Cotton balls
Elmer’s glue
Cotton swabs (1 or 2 per child)
Small paper cups
Egg cartons cut in half

Froot Loops cereal

 

Directions

The small paper cups are for cereal and for glue. Give two cups to each child. Squirt about 1 T of glue in one cup and place a cotton swab in it. Fill the other cup with the dry cereal.

Using the egg cartons with colored pieces of paper to indicate what color goes in each place, have them sort those fruity cereal O’s into the right places. Then, have them glue the cereal on each curve in whatever shade they would like it to be. It is helpful to have an example for them to see.
Using more glue, apply the cotton balls to the ends of the rainbow. Allow to dry.

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E is for Elephant Preschool Craft

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This craft is part of my preschool lesson “E is for Elephant.” I surfed the internet and found a wonderful coloring page on Lines Across. It was color by numbers. I loved it but my preschoolers are only just learning to recognize numbers. It would have been frustrating rather than fun. So, I opted to use the page without numbers.
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A good friend of mine is a Kindergarten teacher. She shared that many preschoolers enter her class unable to use scissors. It takes weeks for her to catch them up to where they should be. Though my class only meets once a week (I teach homeschoolers),  I made up my mind that they would leave with that skill under their belt.

So, nearly every time we are together we use SCISSORS! That is why I decided to cultivate paper cutting and gluing skills in this craft, instead of coloring it.
Elmer the Elephant

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Well, to my surprise, E is for Elephant became an extra special day. Several of my students were absent, sorry to say. But the smallness of the group changed the dynamic dramatically.
 Elmer the Patchwork Elephant plush soft toy
When we sat down to do this craft, this is what transpired: sweet chatter. With only 5 children present, all little girls, it was such a cozy group. My assistant, Katie, and I decided to join them in making this craft. After everyone got the hang of it, some adorable conversations took place. They shared about what they like, what they do, where they go, fun things that happened. Then Lili started singing a song “Yes, Jesus Loves Me” while she worked. She sang by herself for a few seconds and then we all joined in.  It was a very special time.
Template Elmer the Patchwork Elephant

Elmer Coloring Page

E is for Elephant Craft

You will need:
Elmer coloring page template (link above)
Construction Paper – many colors
Glue Sticks
Child-safe scissors
  • Holding large sheets of paper is difficult for little hands so I pre-cut the construction paper into more manageable strips.
  • They, in turn, cut them into smaller pieces.
  • Next, I had the children glue-stick the colors onto the various squares on Elmer’s body.
It turned out so cute and every elephant was so different.  That same day, we read an Elmer the Elephant book. Priceless!
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Football Food! Five Classic Appetizers for the Big Game

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Celebrations, football Sunday, picnics and family gatherings — every get together is so much better with delicious appetizers. Make enough of them and you won’t need a main dish!

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Here are five of the most popular, easy-to-make appetizers that everyone will love!

Grape Jelly Glazed Meatballs
Olive Tarts
Artichoke Heart Dip
Pigs in a Blanket
Crab meat and Cheese Dip
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Grape Jelly Glazed Meatballs Recipe

1 1/2 lb 90% ground beef
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 tsp. salt
1 large egg
1 cup Heinz chili sauce
1 cup grape jelly

Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, salt and egg. Mush together. Roll into 1/2 balls. Sautee in a large non-stick skillet until done. Drain juices off. Add chili sauce and grape jelly and simmer, gently turning on occasion, until the sauce turns into a glaze on the meatballs (about 15 minutes).

Makes 3 dozen.

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Olive Tarts Recipe

2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup softened butter
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp paprika
48 pimento stuffed Spanish olives

Combine cheese and butter; toss with the other ingredients –except for the olives–to make a dough. Using a teaspoon, scoop a little dough into your hand and flatten it. Place an olive in the center. Surround the olive with the dough and roll in your hand like a meatball.
Place on a cookie sheet, very close together but not touching, and freeze them. Once frozen, either transfer them to a freezer bag or bake immediately on a cookie sheet, about an inch apart, at  400°  for 15 minutes.  Serve hot.

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Artichoke Heart Dip

2 jars or cans of artichoke hearts (drained)
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 cup real mayonnaise
lemon juice
paprika
Mix and bake at 325° until bubbly.
Serve with crackers.

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How to Make Pigs in a Blanket

32 cocktail hot dogs

 2 tubes Pillsbury® crescent rolls

Unroll crescent rolls. Cut each triangle in half. Roll one cocktail hot up in a triangle and place on a cookie sheet. Keep them 1 inch apart. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 375° for 10-15 minutes. (Remove when lightly browned). Serve with ketchup, mustard or ranch dressing to dip in.

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Crabmeat and Cheese Dip

2 lb. VELVEETA® cheese
1 lb. crab meat, chopped
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
2 dashes Tabasco hot sauce

2 sticks butter

Combine Velveeta cheese, garlic powder, Tabasco and butter in a double boiler, microwavable bowl or crock pot. Heat until cheese and butter is melted. Stir. Gently add the boneless crab meat and blend. Serve hot with Melba toast or crackers.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Photo Credits:

  • Grape Jelly Glazed Meatballs by The Swedish on sxc dot hu
  • Artichoke Heart Dip from My Maryland dot com
  • Olive Tarts by Skat and the Misc blog
  • Pigs in a Blanket – Wikimedia
  • Velveeta Cheese by Charles Williams on Flickr Creative Commons

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