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Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by!  After our super fun mirrored Easter egg painting last week, I was left with a (very happy) paint covered toddler, and a bunch of painting tools that needed cleaning. The only logical next step was a bubble bath to clean them all up! As soon as we finished, I scooped up Skyler, and together we carried our plastic cups, Easter eggs, and the cookie cutter up to the bathroom for a warm bubble bath! I added in some wash cloths and a sponge to play along with! As I mentioned in our painting post, this was the first day Skyler had gone without a nap (just a one day fluke for now, luckily!!). Between the painting activity and this bath that followed, we were finished just in time for dinner!! An exciting and messy craft followed by a bath was just what we needed to fill an afternoon that could have been pretty rough otherwise! Skyler loved leaving the water running as ...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by!  Oooh, this was a fun one! Yesterday, we had a very busy morning with story time and errands, and Skyler ended up falling asleep in the car for about five minutes on the way home. I gave him some lunch and put him down right away for a nap...but for the first time ever he did not nap. I kept thinking, "oh, he laid down, maybe he will fall asleep," but nope, he would be right back up, doing laps around his crib. I knew it would be the perfect afternoon to whip out this painting activity. I admitted on Facebook last night that I ended up taking around 500 pictures of this activity. Well, the entire activity. For this post, I narrowed it down from 245 to 28, and boy, was it hard! Skyler was so into this activity and I couldn't help but take picture after picture! Anyone else do this?! For this simple Easter inspired painting activity, I cut some egg sha...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by!  We love to paint at our house. I am always trying to think of fun and exciting painting methods for Skyler to try. On the blog, we have painted with yarn , we made muddy tracks with animals and trucks , and we have used potatoes , carrots, and toilet paper rolls to make prints with paint. It is fun to give Skyler a new painting tool and watch his eyes light up and see how excited he is to create! With winter behind us now (according to the calendar at least!) I have been looking for cheerful and springlike crafts and activities to brighten up our home. I was about to throw away some calla lilies that I bought around Valentine's Day , when I realized even though they don't look great anymore, I could give them a purpose before tossing them in the trash! The coffee filter clovers that were acting as sun catchers on our bay window were fairly quickly disco...