Hello! I have a little munchkin helping me write our blog post today. 😉 Our youngest grandson is visiting us for a few days. (He’s too young to actually help, but he likes the pretty computer screen. lol) Today is day #12 so…you guessed it…it is time to open door #12.
Let’s see what is hiding behind today’s door.
What do these pieces make when they are assembled?
My guess is hot chocolate! What do you think?
Oh, and some cookies! 🙂
Wow, our advent calendar is already half done! 12 more days to go! Come back every day to see each surprise! 🙂
Hello there! 🙂 I hope you’re having a marvelous day! I saw some amazing clearance prices on Lego at our local Walmart store and wanted to share them with you. It’s almost time for some Christmas shopping and this might be a good way to get some great gifts at great prices too! Here’s some Lego sets I spotted:
#2.) Lego Disney Inside Out 2 Mood Cubes #43248 – Regular price $34.98, Sale price $21.00
#3.) Lego Dreamzzz Logan the Mighty Panda #71480 – Regular price $29.96, Sale price $23.50.
#4.) Lego Animal Crossing Isabelle’s House Visit #77049 – Regular price $39.97, Sale price $22.50
#5.) Lego Super Mario Adventures with Interactive Lego Peach #71441 – Regular price $49.97, Sale price $31.50
#6.) Lego Disney Moana’s Adventure Canoe #43270 – Regular price $59.97, Sale price $47.97
#7.) Lego Harry Potter Mandrake #76433 – Regular price $69.96, Sale price $55.97
Wishing you happy bargain shopping! 🙂 I’m sure all these sets are not available at all Walmart stores. Maybe you’ll find some bargains I don’t have here. Good luck!
Happy Independence Day! Hope you and your family are having a good holiday! We are getting together with our family and looking forward to fireworks tonight. 🙂 I found a few 4th of July riddles that your family might enjoy.
#1.) What did one flag say to the other flag?
Answer: Nothing, it just waved!
#2.) Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington?
Answer: Because the horse was too heavy to carry!
#3.) What dance was popular in 1776?
Answer: Indepen-dance!
#4.) What do you serve with cheese on the 4th of July?
Answer: Fire-crackers!
#5.) Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: On a piece of paper!
#6.) What did the ghost say on the 4th of July?
Answer: “Red, white and BOO!”
#7.) What is red, white, blue & green?
Answer: Uncle Same holding a watermelon!
#8.) What do you call a snowman on the 4th of July?
Answer: A puddle!
#9.) What’s the difference between George Washington and a duck?
Answer: One has his face on a bill and the other has a bill on his face!
Hello, my fellow Lego fanatics! 🙂 Let’s talk about the new Lego Formula 1 car packs! Have you seen them? The boxes they come in are the same size as the Lego Minifigures and they also sell for $4.99 in the United States.
I’m not really into Formula 1 racing but I have heard about the new Formula 1 movie that is releasing this month. Whether you like Formula 1 racing or just playing or collecting cool cars, these packs could be fun for you or your kids. So in case you are interested, I bought a pack so I can show you what comes inside. 🙂 First thing is quite a few Lego pieces! I would say these have more pieces than the usual minifigure packs do.
Also included are instructions for putting the car together and on the back of the instructions you can see all 12 cars that are available.
While the instructions are not the easiest to see, I was able to figure it out fairly easily. A younger child might need some assistance. Here’s the car that was in my surprise box:
These are pictures copied from the Lego website to show you closer up the cars that are available and give you their names.
If you like Lego and racing cars, I’m guessing you will have fun collecting these. 🙂 They are available on the Lego website. I found the one I bought at a Barnes & Noble bookstore but I’m guessing they are available in other stores as well.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂 Did you remember to wear green? I hope nobody pinches you if you forgot! Today’s post is about making a leprechaun out of a paper plate! Sound fun? Let’s get started!
You will need a small paper plate that is blank on the back, some orange yarn (I couldn’t find solid orange yarn), glue, scissors, a peach or tan crayon, a black marker, green construction paper, a set of large wiggly eyes (or draw your own eyes) and some scraps of black, yellow and orange construction paper.
You will create your leprechaun on the BACK of the plate. Depending on how you look at the pictures, you might think we used the front, but we didn’t. 😉 Use the peach or tan crayon to color the back of the plate. It’s rather hard to see in the picture because the color is so light, sorry.
It’s time to make the leprechaun’s hat. Using the green construction paper, cut out a simple hat.
Use a strip of black paper to add a band to the hat.
Now we’ll make the buckle for the hat. Cut a square from the yellow paper that is a little bit larger than the height of the black band. Cut a small square from the black paper that is smaller than the yellow square. Glue the black square in the center of the yellow square.
Glue the buckle in the center of the black band on the hat.
To glue the hat onto the leprechaun’s face, apply glue to the top portion of the plate where the hat will touch.
Press the hat onto the plate.
Next cut 2 eyebrow shapes from the scrap of orange paper. Glue them on just below the bottom of the hat.
Glue on the wiggly eyes or draw on some eyes with the black marker.
Now draw on a bit of a nose and a mouth.
Cut a bunch of yarn pieces around 3 1/2 – 4″ long. You will need a lot of them! Lol This bunch is just a start. 😉 I used 102 pieces of yarn.
Put a small line of glue on the plate where the leprechaun’s chin would be. Lay the ends of the pieces of yarn on the glue, lining them up evenly.
Continue adding pieces of yarn until the leprechaun’s beard is as full as you want it to be.
And you’re finished! Great job! Your leprechaun is now ready for St. Patrick’s Day! Better keep an eye on him because leprechauns can be pretty sneaky and they love to play tricks on people! 😉 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂
Hello again! Hope you are “enjoying” winter (does anyone enjoy winter?!) and are staying healthy! We have been busy busy bees here! We tore up the old carpet in our living room and hallway and hope to lay down a new floor soon! As most remodeling projects go, we keep running into snags and things that have to be fixed first and the days have been flying by without me getting to chat with you. I am determined to change that today! 🙂 So how about an easy snack idea for Valentine’s Day that you probably have the ingredients for and makes up pretty quickly? It’s called Peanut Butter Energy Bites. There are many ways to make these and I have a couple of suggestions that depend on the age of your children. Here we go!
If your kids are a little older, you can make these with uncooked oatmeal. If your kids are pretty young yet, I would go with crushed graham crackers. The oatmeal makes them more chewy, but blending the oatmeal in a food processor or blender helps with that some. My favorite way is using graham crackers.
You will need 1 Cup oatmeal OR crushed graham crackers, 1/2 Cup peanut butter or your favorite nut butter, 1/3 Cup honey, 1 teaspoon vanilla, a dash of salt and 1/2 Cup mini chocolate chips. To make these a little fancier for Valentine’s Day you might also want to have some sprinkles on hand.
Put all the ingredients into a medium sized bowl.
Mix well. It will be a stiff dough. Take a couple of minutes to make sure all the dry ingredients are completely mixed in. The dough will look different depending on which ingredients you chose. Here’s with the oatmeal…
Here’s with the graham crackers…
Using rounded teaspoon sized portions of dough, make the dough into balls. Place on a cookie sheet on a piece of waxed paper or parchment paper.
To make them pretty for Valentine’s Day, roll them in some sprinkles. Pop them in the refrigerator to make them more firm and easier to handle. No baking required! I also stored mine in the refrigerator.
Whether you choose to use oatmeal…
Or crushed graham crackers…
I think you will find these little snack balls to be very addicting! (We won’t mention how many I may have eaten today!) 😉 You can switch these up by trying different ingredients. Use a nut butter in place of the peanut butter or instead of chocolate chips add raisins, cranberries, white chocolate chips, chopped peanuts, coconut flakes, cinnamon, etc…the sky’s the limit! 🙂 Enjoy!
Yes, it’s true! There is another new series of Lego minifigures! Are we excited?! Yes, we are! 🙂 This one is Series 27.
They seem to be random characters but they are pretty cool! 🙂 Here’s all 12 in the series:
And now these are some closer up pictures with the name of each minifigure below the picture. I found these pictures on the Lego website.
You want to know if I bought any? Well, of course, I had to try them out for you! 😉 I bought 2 and these are the ones I got:
Cupid…how cute is this?!
And the Longboarder.
Now, which ones are you hoping to find? I think they are all pretty amazing, but if I had to pick just one I would like to have the Cat Lover…or maybe the Plush Toy Collector. 🙂
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