Easter

Spring is upon us and Easter is arriving in a little over a week... we must prepare :) Here's some fun Easter decorating projects that you probably already know but anyway here it goes....

1. Egg dying (one of my favorites)

1. Hard boil some eggs
2. Get a bunch of different colors of food coloring out and get a bowl for each color
3. Fill each bowl with about 2/3 cup of hot water and 2tbs of vinegar
4. Add one color of food coloring to each bowl
5. place a hard boiled egg on a spoon and dip the egg to a color of your choice
6. Keep the egg in there until it has a good amount of color to it
7. You can do half of the egg one color and half of it another color by dipping half the egg in one color and the other half in another color. 

2. Easter Egg strings (this one is especially for kids who love to color)

1. Either draw some Easter eggs for your kids to color in or print out uncolored Easter egg coloring pages off the internet
2. Use Crayola Washable Markers, crayons, or colored pencils and color them in with your kids
3. You can do designs ad different colors
4. The do a single hole punch in the top of each Easter egg 
5. Take a piece of string and thread it through each hole
6. Then, you can hang it in a doorway or over a window

3. Chocolate Hunt (fun on a rainy day)

1. get a pack or two of Hershey's mini chocolate eggs
2. hide them in corners and little nooks and cranny's in the house, such a drawers, staircases, corners, shelves, chairs, etc
3. Let the kids go hunt for them
4. At the end see who collected the most to add a little competition to it
5. The eat away!

Enjoy!

The Hunger Games

First of all I apologize for not posting anything for a few months, I've been pretty busy. I recently developed an addiction to a book series called The Hunger Games. The series consists of three chapter books that are all somewhere around 400 pages...

1. The Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire
3. Mockingjay

These books are made for middle school aged students all the way through adults. So I realize this isn't much of a kid activity but I wanted to create a post about it so those of you who haven't been introduced to them yet can find out about them. Some or a lot of you may have already heard of or read them but if you haven't read them you should. I was so addicted to the second one, which is 391 pages, that I finished it in 2 days! On March 23 a movie of the first book came to theaters and tickets for the midnight premier sold fast, luckily I was fortunate enough to get some. Here's a brief description of what they're about... Way in the future the only civilization that exists in the World is a country that covers most of North America, called Panem. Panem was originally divided into 13 districts. But, the districts rebelled against the Capitol of Panem and District 13 was eliminated, so then there were only 12. To punish the districts for the rebellion the Capitol creates the Hunger Games. Each year one boy and one girl from each district between the ages of 12 and 18 are randomly selected as tributes to go into the Hunger Games. The tributes train and prepare for the arena, which can be anything in the wilderness. In the Hunger Games the tributes have to survive on their own and fight to the death. All the tributes have to kill each other off until there is only one remaining, this tribute is the victor. The tributes can do whatever they want to fight and survive, for there are only two rules: You can not eat the other tributes and you must remain  on your metal plate for sixty seconds before the gong sounds for the beginning of the hunger games. The main character in these books is a girl named Katniss Everdeen. So there's your backstory on the Hunger Games Book. It's a good science fiction story full of action and there's a secondary story line that has a love triangle in it.

"Winning means fame and fortune, losing means certain death, the hunger games have begun."

Enjoy and "May the odds be ever in your favor"