Team USA Cookies

Nothing too fancy, but definitely yummy!!

The kids and I made sugar cookies and decorated them with red, white and blue sprinkles to help cheer on Team USA!

These were supposed to be for after dinner, but these two little cuties just couldn't wait to get their paws on them!  Even Daddy had one (or two).

Water Beads: Olympic Style

In keeping with the Olympic theme, we pulled out our water beads and made our own "Olympic rings".

Water beads are just cool.  Plain and simple.

If you've never played around with them, you should totally give them a try.  You can find them in any craft store in the floral section.  They come in little tiny bags and start out as little tiny beads.  As they absorb water, they expand, and make super fun and bouncy play toys. 

Once our water beads had absorbed all of the water, we put them into an empty egg carton to play with.  We tried to put the beads side by side to make the Olympic rings, but they just kept rolling away.  Lots of giggles though!!

Anna loves to run her fingers through them, sort them and just play around with them.

Drew....well...he loves to throw them and watch them bounce.  And he gets such a kick out of them that I just don't have the heart to take them away.  He's just too cute.

Pretend Play: The Olympics

I found these super cute Olympic Playmobil people for only $2 a pop so I just had to pick them up for the kids.  They have been great to play with as we watch the Olympics.  Anna is just like me and loves the gymnastics so she has claimed those little people as her own.

The Playmobil people are so darn cute!

Happy playing and happy Olympics!!

Making Olympic Rings

We are still loving, loving, loving the Olympics!!

Making Olympic rings is a fun little craft to do in celebration of the Olympics!  So easy, so simple!

Supplies needed:

Paint (red, blue, yellow, green, black)

Paper

Paper towel or toilet paper roll

For my little man, I just gave him a little cup of paint and let him stamp his paper with the paper towel roll.

For Anna (age 3 1/2), we talked about the Olympic rings and how they symbolize the Olympics.  She called out the colors used and helped me pick them out.  Initially she just wanted to stamp the paper, which was fine.  Together we made the five Olympic rings on the bottom of the paper.

Anna's 

Drew's

Love them both!

Olympic Medals

Do you have Olympic fever yet???  We definitely do!  We've been counting down the days until the Olympics all month and we are just giddy with excitement that they are finally here.  I completely feel like I'm a kid watching them!

This week will be all about the Olympics!!  We have tons of stuff to do to celebrate this awesome event!

First up is Olympic Medals.

I saw the idea over at The Imagination Tree.  We used our regular salt dough recipe which consists of: 

1/2 cup table salt

1/2 cup warm water

1 cup of flour

Mix everything together and knead for about 5-10 minutes until it's softened and smooth. 

We added glitter to our medals to make them sparkle some!

And then Anna decided to add ALLLLL of the glitter!

Roll out your sparkly salt dough and then cut out circles (we used a cup to cut out our shapes).

For the numbers, we used some of our letter/number magnets and just pressed them into the dough before we baked them.  Don't forget to add a little hole at the top of the medal for your ribbon (we used a straw).

Bake the medals at 200 degrees for about 2 hours.

Once cooled, paint them gold, silver and bronze!

Now go have races around your house!  Hope you win first place!