Fun Farm Veggies By: Paula Bales for Styrofoam Brand Foam

Make your child want to eat more veggies with these Fun Farm Veggies. If they can laugh and play with these little guys, they might want to try the real thing. This is a project for anyone looking for easy crafts for kids. Use Styrofoam and other easy-to-find craft materials to your own version of this project. Country craft ideas have never looked this tasty. Paint a cute face on your veggies to give them an extra fun look.

Materials:

• STYROFOAM Brand Foam:
  • Cones, 6" x 3", two
  • Egg, 5", one
  • Ball, 3", one
• Acrylic paints: orange, purple, red
• Clay pots, one each: 2-1/2"; 3"
• Plastic canvas yarn, 2-ply, green
• Wiggle eyes, four each: 10mm; 15mm
• Wooden ball knobs, 3/8", four
• Serrated knife
• Candle stub or paraffin
• Fine-line black permanent marker
• Ruler
• Paintbrushes: round, flat
• Disposable palette
• Water basin
• Paper towels
• Scissors
• Low-temp glue gun and glue sticks
• Thick, white craft glue

Instructions:

Carrots

1. Pass knife blade through candle stub. Use knife to cut foam cones into carrot shapes; carrots should be slightly different. Sand carrots with scrap piece of foam. Use paintbrush handle to indent horizontal lines in carrots; use finger to make round indentation in top of each carrot.
    
2. Paint carrots orange, and two ball knobs red (noses).
    
3. Glue two 10mm wiggle eyes to one carrot and two 15mm eyes to remaining carrot. Paint top third of each eye orange for eyelids; use marker to outline eyelids.
    
4. Using photo as guide, glue noses to carrots. Using very little paint, paint cheeks red. Use marker to draw mouths and eyebrows.
    
5. For carrot stems, glue yarn loops of various sizes together; glue stems to carrot tops.
    
6. Glue additional yarn loops inside top of 2-1/2" clay pot. Glue carrots together, then glue carrots inside pot.

Eggplant

1. Follow carrot instructions, except:
    
2. Cut foam egg into eggplant shape; indent top.
    
3. Paint eggplant purple, and one ball knob red (nose).
    
4. Glue two 15mm eyes to eggplant. Paint eyelids purple; outline.
    
5. For leaves, glue small yarn loops to top of eggplant. For stem, cut three 3/4" lengths from yarn. Glue lengths together, then glue to top of eggplant.
    
6. Glue additional yarn loops, and eggplant, inside top of 3" pot.

Tomato

1. Follow carrot instructions, except:
    
2. Cut foam ball into tomato shape; indent top.
    
3. Paint tomato red, and one ball knob orange (nose).
    
4. Glue two 10mm eyes to tomato. Paint eyelids red; outline.
    
5. Follow eggplant Step 4.

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Tie -Dye T-shirt

Use tie-dye to create this colorful flower T-shirt with simple painting. This tie-dye painting project from I Love to Create is a fun activity to do with kids. 

Materials:

• Tulip® One-Step Tie-Dye Kits™
  • Classic Colors
• Garbage bag
• Foam plate
• Paper towels
• Cardboard
• T-shirt, white
• Masking tape
• Plastic wrap
• 1” flat paintbrush
• Scratch paper
• Black felt pen

Instructions:

1. Wash shirt to remove sizing. Do not use fabric softener in the washer or dryer.
    
2. Cover work surface with garbage bag.
    
3.  Using black felt pen, freehand flower pattern on scratch paper, flipping over for a reverse pattern for one flower.
    
4.  Place shirt on work surface and smooth flat. Cover pattern with plastic wrap, taping excess to back. Insert pattern into shirt and position in place. Pattern will show through shirt.
    
5.  Wearing gloves from kit, fill each dye bottle with water. Shake until thoroughly mixed.
    
6.  Squeeze a small amount of Fuchsia Dye on foam plate. Wet and dry brush with paper towel. Dip brush in Dye then press into center of flower. Dye will spread on fibers. Paint dye to about ¼” from edge and let spread to line. If more dye is needed, add paint at center again and let spread. Clean brush and plate.
    
7.  Squeeze a small amount of Yellow Dye on plate and mix with Fuchsia to create an orange color. Fill in petals of lower flower with this mixture. Clean brush and plate.
    
8.  Add Turquoise to plate and fill in petals. Add Yellow centers to each flower then Lime stems and leaves.
    
9.  Cover with plastic wrap or garbage bag. Let set 4-6 hours. Fill washer to large load setting with a small amount of laundry soap. Dry in dryer.

Read more at http://www.favecrafts.com/Crafting-with-Kids/Flower-Tie-Dye-Shirt-from-Tulip#FqIKr607ZpOZ5gzX.99

Tissue Paper Night Lights

Get your kids involved in this simple night light and get them to add their own creativity .
This uses very simple everyday materials.

Go to the link to follow the steps.
http://www.kiwicrate.com/projects/Tissue-Paper-Night-Lights/621#

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Fun Father's Day Crafts!!

Funny Quotes on the World Cup

"I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week, and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses."

– Clinton Morrison

“If I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn’t happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.”

– Sir Alex Ferguson on how a flying football boot hit David Beckham in the face

NATIONAL BLACK COW DAY

National Black Cow Day is celebrated each year on June 10.  Are you in the mood for ice cream?  We are all familiar with the “Root Beer Float” but did you know that it is also called the “Black Cow”?

A “Black Cow” was originally made with root beer and vanilla ice cream.  Today it is sometimes made with root beer and chocolate ice cream or cola and vanilla ice cream.

Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, gets the credit for inventing the “Black Cow”  way back in August of 1893.

One night, as Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, was staring out the window and thinking about the line of soda waters that was producing for the citizens of Cripple Creek, he came upon an idea.  The full moon that night that was shining on the snow-capped Cow Mountain reminded him of a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  He hurried back to his bar and added a scoop to the children’s favorite flavor of soda, Myers Avenue Red root beer, tried it, liked it and served it the very next day.  It was an immediate hit.

Wisner named the new creation, “Black Cow Mountain” but the local children shortened the name to “Black Cow“.

Sit back, relax and enjoy a Black Cow today!

NATIONAL STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE DAY

June 9 of each year celebrates National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day.

Following are two “tried and true” recipes for you to try and to share with your family and friends. We think that you will enjoy them so much you will be making them more than once this summer!  Enjoy!!

http://www.food.com/recipe/strawberry-rhubarb-pie-125515

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/strawberry-rhubarb-pie/

HAVE A WONDERFUL NATIONAL STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE DAY!

Kids For Saving Earth Promise Song

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National Drawing Day

On National Drawing Day   drop everything and draw!!!

Below are some ideas for kids  from Red Ted Art's Blog

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LOVE CONQUERS ALL

Don't go for looks, they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth, even that fades away
Go for someone who makes you smile,
because it takes only a smile to make  a dark day seem bright.

Find the one that makes your heart smile!!

-source unknown