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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!  Happy Easter! It was a very fun day for us. I felt like we never really stopped moving, but it was wonderful to see so much of our family and it was special spending time with my husband since he returned from a two week training yesterday! Last night I set up Skyler's Easter basket. It ended up being mostly a bike/train/automobile theme with a few animals thrown in and a basketball that was never intended to be included :) I have been looking forward to Skyler being of age for a train set. This one from IKEA seemed like the perfect starter set. And of course, with his huge interest in garbage trucks lately , I was on the hunt for a toy garbage truck for him. This sweet recycling truck fit the bill. While at IKEA, I also picked up a roll of drawing paper for our future crafting fun. Inside Skyler's basket, I was going to fill the bottom with Easter grass...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by!  Skyler and I had a lot of fun with Easter crafts and activities the past several weeks. From pom-poms to painting, and thanks to the perfectly colored plastic eggs, a lot of fun color themed play! Here is a roundup of all the Easter themed fun we had at Minne-Mama! Pom-Pom Easter Eggs Mirrored Easter Egg Painting Easter Egg Bubble Bath  Easter Egg Color Sort Peek-a-boo Eggs Sensory Bin Easter Egg Hunt Contact Paper Play Frozen Watercolor Easter Egg Paints Easter Basket Color Match I am sure this is not the last of plastic Easter egg play for us this year! There are so many fun things to be done with those eggs! We have also enjoyed using them with play dough and "washing" them in the sink with a ton of bubbles and a dish scrubber :) To see more Easter crafts and activities, check out my Easter Pinterest board!   

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by! It's no secret we like color sorting activities at our house (Ahem...like here , here , here , here , and here ). Skyler is all about colors right now. It is so fun to hear him describing the colors of everything he sees. In our ECFE class yesterday he grabbed two blocks for a song we sing and as he chose his blocks, he said "blue...green!" and was so proud as he ran back to me with his blocks. Walking along the street now that everything is not winter white, I get to hear him talk on and on about what he sees. It is just the best. Here is another fun and simple Easter inspired color activity (those plastic eggs are so wonderful for color sorting!) To create this color match activity, I used a piece of white poster board, plastic eggs, Velcro, and crayons to match the eggs plus shades of brown for the basket. I loosely drew the shape of a basket, mad...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities!   Thank you for stopping by! I am so excited to say that Minne-Mama can be found at Fun at Home with Kids today! I gain a ton of inspiration from the crafts and activities on this amazing blog, and was psyched when I was asked to write a guest post!! Seriously, from our two-tone bean sensory bin , the fun sticky hearts we made for our Valentine bath , and buying liquid water colors which have been a part of many recent crafts , I often mention how Asia's posts at Fun at Home with Kids were a spark for our own creations.   Skyler and I enjoy a lot of the same things as that sweet clan, including bright colors and contact paper, two aspects of this beautiful craft that baby boy made. Skyler loved creating these spring flower sun catchers to brighten up his room. Click here to see the full post and tutorial at Fun at Home with Kids!! Thank you again for the wonderful opportunity, Fun at H...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! Trying to find another use for my new favorite crafting item , liquid watercolor paints, I wanted to try making shaped frozen paints using plastic Easter eggs. Perfect for one of the first very warm days we have had in Minnesota in months!!  Our plastic eggs have holes on the top and bottom, so to cover them up I just put a dot of hot glue on each hole. It took just minutes for the glue to dry, and then I could make our paints! The perfect way to hold six eggs in halves was, of course, an egg carton! I put several drops of each color into the corresponding egg halves and then added water to the tops. I worried that I didn't add enough of the colors, but they did end up very vibrant - you don't need much of the liquid watercolor! After leaving them to sit overnight in the freezer, I went back and added some water to the tops and folded the eggs together to ...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! When planning this contact paper Easter basket activity, I knew I wanted Skyler to decorate his own "eggs." I spotted this textured foam and thought it would be perfect for print making. To make our egg shapes, I used a cookie cutter to press the shape into the foam and then cut them out. Skyler had so much fun making the different printed eggs. He would tell me which egg he wanted to make and then pick the color. I was so impressed with how he filled the paper with prints! After he made several prints of each texture, he used the extra paint to finger paint ( and it later turned into our newest countdown for daddy! ) Once the paint had dried, I cut out the prints and we had a ton of brightly colored eggs with different textures! I was going to just set them by the basket, but after reading one of Skyler's current favorite books, ( Here Comes Easter b...