FamilyEducation Blogs

August 18, 2009

Jell-O Playd-O

Yesterday I shared a new favorite snack the boys have enjoyed eating this summer. The "Jell-O" oranges have been fun to eat, our recipe doesn't actually call for any Jell-O, but uses natural gelatin.

If you have a box of Jell-O laying around your house, Whitney at Rookie-Cookie.com shares a fun, creative and easy way to use it that will have your kids almost as happy as eating Jell-O.

Use your Jell-O to make Whitney's Playdough recipe: [more]

August 17, 2009

Waning...

I know it is cliche, but I can hardly believe that summer is ending so soon! Next week R embarks upon elementary school and kindergarten, so I'm soaking up these last few lazy (okay, so any day with children isn't truly *lazy*, but you get my drift) of summer before the school bus beckons.

A cousin of mine shared this fun snack idea with me earlier this summer. The original recipe uses boxed Jell-o, but we used natural gelatin and juice to achieve our snacking fun without any additives. Need use for your already-bought Jell-o? More on that tomorrow... [more]

July 1, 2009

Red, Ice and Blue

The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays. When we moved to Columbus 2+ years ago, I realized I must have moved to the right area of the city because our neighborhood has a huge Fourth of July parade and celebrates the holiday big. [more]

January 28, 2009

Snow Day!

The weather forecasters had been calling for a big snow for days, but I always take forecasts with a grain of salt. More often than not, they fail to materialize.

So when I woke up this morning and my alarm clock radio was in mid-sentence saying, "...the entire campus of Ohio State is closed..." I knew the forecasters were correct. OSU *never* closes, and as I expected, all the schools, including R and G's preschool, were shut down.

In an effort to entertain the little ones, I have had to get creative. It started early this morning with...

Snowman Pancakes [more]