Even HAPPY wake ups!

Let's work on Fine Motor Skills...

Tuesday is MOVEMENT day...

Every Tuesday we move...

Friday Night Pizza

Yay, I pretty much ROCK it!

Popcorn!

The basic recipe can be found here : I modified it, because I CANNOT physically follow a recipe if my life depended on it.
10 cups freshly popped popcorn
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup apple juice
3 tablespoons butter
2 and 1/2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups FILL (raisins, nuts, dried cranberries, dried apricots, sunflowers seeds,

Directions:

1 Butter a very large bowl. Add popped popcorn and your selection of the 2 cups of fill.

2 Heat brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, salt, and juice until boil. Pour over dry ingredients in bowl.

3 Butter hands with additional butter or cooking spray. Hand mix all the ingredients in bowl and form into tennis size balls. It may be easier to use a LARGE SCOOP (I use the Pampered Chef large scoop because I am an independent consultant and well I LOVE PAMPERED CHEF). With scoop
Compact lightly to get the mixture to hold a ball shape. Set aside. Wrap each popcorn ball in plastic wrap.
4 The balls can be drizzled with melted chocolate for gift giving. I OF COURSE use the Pampered Chef double boiler for chocolate melting! SUPER easy to use, easy to clean!

Hand packed

I like to use white chocolate on the cranberry/cashew ones AND butterscotch on peanut/raisin ones. After wrapping with plastic wrap, I tie with a burgundy colored ribbon.

Discovering shapes

Today we hosted a math exploration play date with our homeschooling friends. We explored simple and complex shapes, by creating snowflakes out of smaller shapes and comparing them with other snowflakes. Since NO TWO snowflakes are the same and symmetry is not necessarily important, the kids were able to MOSTLY create independently!

Snowflakes

Let's talk shapes and sides.... let's create snowflakes.

Let's have a play-date.