Preschool Science Colored Milk

This was a fun way for the kids to mix colors. All you need is:

• Milk


• Plates


• food coloring


• q-tips

Pour milk into a shallow plate,

Plate two dots of food coloring, not touching each other. Let the kids mix the colors using a q-tip.

Preschool Science Lava Lamps

A big hit with the kids were homemade lava lamps. Here's what you need to make your own:

• empty water bottle (with a lid)


• vegetable oil


• water


• food coloring


• alka seltzer tablets (the generic Walmart brand is about $2 for 36 tablets, each child used about 1 whole tablet)

Pour several inches of oil in the bottom of a water bottle. Then pour several inches of water on top. Put in several drops of food coloring. Let kids watch the food coloring for a bit. It slowly sinks through the oil. Place small pieces of alka seltzer tablets and watch the action!! Once done put the lid tightly back on and they can be fun to observe the oil water mixture. Open up again and again and put more alka seltzer in to see your lava lamp in action!

Preschool Science Colored Vinegar and Baking Soda

One of the favorite activities we did with science. Here's what you need:

• Disposable foil pans (the dollar store is a great place to get these)


• baking soda


• white vinegar


• food coloring


• eye dropper


• cups

Cover the bottom of a pan with baking soda. Mix vinegar with a few drops of food coloring.

Using eye droppers let children drop different colors of colored vinegar into baking soda.



When almost done let children pour cups of vinegar over baking soda.

Preschool: Color mixing

A great opening for preschool with minimal supplies. Here's what you need:

• Paint (I used finger paints, but tempura or craft paints would also work)


• Large Ziploc bag


• Tape (I used blue painters tape, but regular masking tape would also work)

Squirt desired colors into ziploc in separate corners. Carefully squeeze out as much air as possible without mixing the colors. Tape down to the table.

Allow children to mix colors, draw pictures and write letters in the paint.

Topsy Turvy Garden Planter

Today I set out to recreate something I had pinned on Pinterest. This doens't always work in my favor, but today it did!! Woohoo!! I made my own topsy turvy garden planter!!

Here's what I used to create it:

• Rubber garden bucket (I got it last season on clearance at Wal-mart for $3.00)


• 5 - 6inch plastic posts also found at Wal-mart for $.97 a piece


• 1 4 ft piece or rebar (this was around $3 at Home Depot)


• soil


• flowers


• drill

My bucket didn't have holes in the bottoms for drainage so I drilled some holes in and stuck the rebar through the holes. I also put some broken bricks in the bottoms to use up some of the space so I didn't have to use quite as much soil.


The plastic pots also didn't have drainage so I drilled a whole for the rebar plus a few more for water drainage and started stacking.

Fill each pot with soil and turn them as you go for the "topsy turvy" effect!


Then fill them up with flowers, water and enjoy!!


I think it really brightens up the flower bed right by our front door, plus it has our house number on the bucket (I used black vinyl for the house number and Welcome)!

Recipe: Two-Ingredient Blueberry Bars

Back in February I tried Two-Ingredient Lemon bars that I found on Practically Living. I made them for our cub scout Blue & Gold dinner. Luckily I had tried one before I took them because they were gone in a flash and multiple people asked for the recipe. A wonderful "spongy" lemon flavor. No crust like a traditional lemon bar, but super simple and tasty.

I wondered if this two-ingredient recipe would work with other pie fillings, so I decided to try it for Easter.

Two-ingredient Blueberry Bars:

• 1 Can Blueberry Pie Filling


• 1 boxed Angel Food Cake mix


• Optional: sprinkling of powdered sugar

Spread into a 9x13 pan sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until not jiggly in the middle.

The verdict: pretty tasty! They puff up a Lot in the pan so be careful, but they fall when cooling. If you want to do the powdered sugar sprinkle it when serving otherwise it "melts" into the bar when you cover them.

Simple Easter Egg Garland

We seem to have an excess of plastic Easter eggs at our house. So I decided to try making a garland out of them. I had the pompoms from another project and they were purchased at the DollarTree. It is all strung on ribbon. Super simple, super cheap!
You need a long needle with a decent sized eye (so you can easily thread the ribbon through it). I started with a pompom:

Then an egg. All of my eggs had 2 holes in each end making it easy to put the needle through:

If you have a cat I recommend doing this craft out of their reach!

It took me about 10 minutes to complete and now we have some Easter decor up!