farewell!

I have decided to not do this blog anymore...it has become overwhelming to me. I have a personal family blog, and have started a homeschooling and organizational blog.

I hope this blog has {or will} inspire others to have more FuNNeR TiMeS with their family!

Play Dough Snake Letter Cards

Well since I only have little kids home today, and since I was already making these...I figured we'd go for it for our FuNNeR TiMe activity!!!

Here's a link to the Play Dough Snake Letter Cards, I made.

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

Paint~ Prayer Children...

I found these cute little prayer children at the local craft store, for $1. We painted them, and then I put a white thread threw the little whole in them. The A's will be hanging these by their beds to remind them to pray!

We love painting, especially A6 {oh what a mess she makes!!!}

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

local free zoo day!!! and DIY Candy Bars!!!

Today was a free zoo day at the local zoo.....great FuNNeRTiMe Idea!!!

However we will also be making some of these....

If you visit CHOW. com there are tons of do it yourself {make your own} Candy Bars!

Longer Projects

This week A1 has been gone to scout camp, having tons of fun I am sure! So I did a few longer activities or projects with A2 & A3. We are making aprons. I will show a finished project, soon I hope! This is a picture of A3 working on her embroidery. A3, needs a different colored thread. The other photo is A4 making a army tank, we purchased at Hobby Lobby. It was a hit, by the way. He now wants some paper army guys to sit in it.

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

Noodle Art~ Painting

Today for our FuNNeR TiMe! Activity, the kids asked to paint our Noodle Art. Since we had a very busy day, with a homeschool field trip. We will be doing that tomorrow! So now Noodle Art is going to be a 2 day activity.

Rock Painting

Just as the title says, rock painting! I told everyone to go outside and find themselves a rock. Then they chose how to paint it. I will spray them with a clear spray paint, and then they can put them outside, to help decorate the yard!
Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

Noodle Art!

Supplies:
Noodles and rice, lots of different shapes and sizes!
Paper, Heavy duty. I had some foam pages for kids crafts. That's what we used. Though after I did it, I thought I should have cut up that large cardboard box we have out back.
Glue, we used school glue. Lot's of Glue!
This is what I did for little A6. She wanted a letter "A" then I smeared glue all over her page, and let her decorate, however she wanted.

I gave the A's very little directions on this. I laid out all the supplies, said we will make a picture with out paint, crayons or colored pencils. To get the details, and look, you need to think of texture. I had them lay out their main picture or idea, before they started gluing. It was a fun, and messy project!
Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

Butterfly Art~ Symmetrical Art

So this was an off the top of my head activity! If we do it again, I will call it Symmetrical Art, not Butterfly Art!
While I was gathering supplies and preparing to start, I did discuss symmetry. I also discussed butterfly wings, and how they look.

To do this, simply fold a piece of paper in half. Paint on one side of the paper. We first drew pencil sketches of butterflies. Paint quickly and use plenty of paint. I would suggest doing an area for older children. Who want to add details, and take their time. Then when you have that side the way you want it, simply fold the paper over on top of the painted side and PAT down. Do not rub, unless you want a blended look. Then open the paper decide if you need to re-paint an area for more color. If everything turned out as desired, simply move to another area.

Next time we will all decide of our own symmetrical shapes and try them out!!

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!

Marble Painting

This activity went SO FAST I only took a photo of the supplies :)

Supplies I used:

One disposable aluminum cooking pan per child

(you know those cheap ones you see everywhere!)
A bag of marbles

1 piece of card stock, or heavy paper

(make sure it's heavy weight paper)

PAINT!

To do this, we found it best to use less paint, and make very small and little paint dots on the paper. We did different colors at one time, about 3-4 colors. Then throw in a handful of marbles. Next time I might only use 1 marble at a time. Roll around, all directions and everywhere.

This was way fun, however way fast. We didn't have enough heavy duty paper to make more than one. So I added another off the top of my head activity!

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!

Clothes Pin Display

I decided since it seems most of the posts so far have been dollar store items, I figured I'd give you another idea. This is a picture of a display area we have in our hallway. I took some thread {crochet thread} and push pins, to make the line. Then I hung clothes pins on it, and attached some of our FuNNeR TiMe Activities to it. I got this from another ladies blog, she used it for photos in her family room! She used nicer ribbon, and some nice silver hooks. I just adapted it to our needs!
Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!

Sand Art!

Today's activity {actually yesterday's!} is sand art. This is another little activity I picked up at the dollar store.

It came with little packets of colored sand. The paper was similar to a huge sticker. You would pill off the area that you wanted one color pour the sand on it, and dump it off. The colored sand would stick to the sticky area you uncovered! Mama Bear spent most of the time helping A's 5&6 A's 1&2 finished first and started helping.
Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!

Paint Bird Houses!

Today's activity, was to paint birdhouses!

{the two on the table belong to A5 & A6. They were napping!}
I picked these up from a local store on clearance for around $1-$2 each..

I am planning on spraying these with a clear weather proofing paint. Then Papa Bear, needs to help A1 make holes and tie on stings. Then every "A" gets to pick a place to put them outside!

I am ALWAYS on the lookout for these types of activities whenever I am running errands.

Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!!

Velvet Art

Today's activity had to be something we could leave and return to finish later. We had a few plans in the afternoon, and had some activities in the morning. So I picked a few activities out of the bucket, and then let A2 pick one. She chose Velvet Art!

I picked these up around Christmas Time, and needed a few more. It can be difficult finding 7 of these activities, to fit each child's needs. However I finally got enough, it was A12 I was having the hardest time with. He is a boy!! The Tiger on the top is the one I found for him. I took that picture, to show everyone even a 12 year old boy can do velvet art!

I pick up things like this when I see them, and when I have enough for everyone, I add it to our FuNNeR TiMe! Bucket. I wanted to emphasize, FuNNeR TiMe can be done even when you are busy. You might just need to pick and chose the activity that day, and not do any activity chosen.
Here's to a FuNNeR TiMe!!!

Bubble Painting FuN!

Today's FuNNeR TiMe! Activity was

Bubble Painting...

To do this activity you need a bowl with a straw. To it you will add 1/4C dish washing soap. Then add water SLOWLY you want to make the least amount of bubbles as you can. We filled ours until it was about 1 inch from the rim. Then add paint. Stir carefully to not make bubbles. Now you put your straw in the bowl, and blow. After you get tons of bubbles, place a sturdy paper (we used cardstock) on top of the bubbles. When they dry (or sometimes in our case, when they were blown off!) they will leave a bubble shape in that color. Try not to suck! A5 drank a little. She seems to be fine, but sure didn't enjoy that part of the activity. I read online that you can use food coloring instead of paint. We tried, it didn't work. If anyone has ever done this, please let me know. It sure would be better to drink food coloring instead of paint!

Here's some pictures of my 7 blessing bubble painting!

Okay so A2 was napping, and A1 was...well trying to paint!

Here's to some FuNNeR TiMeS!!!!!