We celebrated the first day of spring with some homemade nests!

C1 trying to form a nest

C3 trying to form her nest

The finished nest on C3's decorated plate

C2 enjoying his nest

To make the nests we used the orginal Rice Krispie treat recipe. I ended up making the nests in a muffin tin with a buttered spoon to press the mixture into the nest shape. Enjoy!

We made homemade play dough yesterday, so easy and the dough is wonderful! Sorry no pictures!

Here is the recipe:

2 1/4 cup flour

1 cup salt

4 tsp. cream of tartar

2 cups water

10 drops food color (or 1 pkg. Kool-aid w/out sugar)

2 tbsp. oil

Measure everything and have ready. In a large saucepan, mix water and food coloring (or kool-aid). Stir well. Turn on medium heat, add oil, flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil. Mix with wooden spoon and cook until firm - it will form a ball. Knead with hands as soon as cool enough.

Store in an airtight container.

The recipe made enough for 3 children to work with. I want to make more but a cash and carry run needs to be made to get more salt!

This was taken from the cookbook, Love in the Kitchen.

Enjoy!

I found a recipe for Easter Cookies that teaches the true meaning of Easter. They taste pretty good too!

Here are some pictures...

Daddy reading out of the Bible

The boys breaking up the pecans (after Jesus was arrested he was beaten by Roman soliders)

Daddy adding the egg whites (The eggs represent life. Jesus gave His life so that we could have life.

Adding the sugar (the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him.)

Opening the tomb

Opening up the cookies

It really was a great visual, and C1 really got it. He asked so many great questions. We will do this again next year.

-Mosaic Crayons-

Take your broken crayons and place them in a greased muffin tin - one that you don't mind if it gets stained by the crayons.

Place in a 400 degree oven for about 5 minutes until melted - careful it starts to smoke.

Let completely cool

C1 trying them out