Valentine's Day Graham Cracker House

This is a bit non-traditional, but Miss K has been begging me to make a gingerbread house.  I hate gingerbread, and I didn't want to spend time making it so I kept trying to distract her with other things.  Today, I finally gave in.  Only I didn't make gingerbread.  I used (and this is a little embarrasing) old stale graham crackers, left over icing from Christmas, jelly beans from last from last Easter, and conversation hearts....  from last Valentine's day!  heh heh.  Now you all probably think I never clean out my cabinets.  And I guess you would be right.

Turned out kind of cute!

Miss K got her gingerbread house fix with minimal work on my end, which is much needed with the lack of sleep around this place.  Maybe she won't bug me about it again until next Christmas!  And after today's project, there won't be any year old candy laying around!

A Rainbow of Rice

I haven't posted over the past few days because Mr. T hasn't been feeling well.  To keep Miss K occupied while I was spending more time with the baby, I made her some rainbow rice. 

I put about a 1/4 cup of rice on zip lock bags.  Then I added a 1/2 Tbs of vinegar and some random amount of food coloring to each bag.  Then I let Miss K mix it up by whatever method she wanted. (squeezing, shaking, etc.)

Then I poured them out on waxed paper and let them dry over night.  This was the hard part because she didn't want to wait.

Once dry, though, she had a great time driving her cars and trains through it.  It kept her occupied for hours!