Two Yellow Birds Decor: February 2012

Glow Sticks in the Bath & Got Caught Being Good

We are now at the last day of this weeks series:

To see Day 1 go HERE & for Day 2 go HERE

Today I have a fun activity for the kids during bath time and also a fun thing to do with your kids to reinforce positive behavior.

This bath time activity is super simple. All you need is a bunch of glow sticks!! Just break them and throw them in the tub with the kiddos. You can leave the lights off in the bathroom because the glow sticks give them enough light in the room.

My kids LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this little activity!!! They were so good in the bath the days that we did it. Normally they are screaming and splashing..getting water everywhere. But for this they were so calm and loved playing with the glow sticks!

***FYI: You can freeze the glow sticks to use for another time in the tub!! It is amazing that they still light up days later!!!

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The second thing I have for you today is something we recently started with our kids. It is called

"Got Caught Being Good."

I decided that is was time to start reinforcing their good behavior instead of always focusing on the negative and what they can do to be better. My hubby built this little board for me with a box on it to use.

Of course I had to decorate it first!!! I started by spray painting the whole thing white.

Next, I stained the whole thing with the color Early American. I just love the brown color I get when doing this!

Then I took Chalkboard Paint and painted the front of the box. This is where we are going to keep a tally of their good behavior!

Next, I made a some cute flowers to spice it up and make it fun! Of course I had to do boy and girl colors since its for both my kids!! The tutorials on how to make them can be found HERE.

Then I cut out "Got Caught Being Good!" in black and pink vinyl on my cricut. I used the font Smiley Monster found HERE.

Lastly, I got some chalk and wrote my kids name on the chalkboard so I can put a tally by their name when they Get Caught Being Good!

Inside the box I put treats and goodies. When they get 5 tally marks they can pick one out!!

It has been working so well for us so far. It has definitely helped me focus more on their positive behavior which is much nicer!!

I hope you have enjoyed this Kids Days Series and reading about Bath Time Glow Sticks and Got Caught Being Good!

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Weather Experiment & Cloud Dough

Welcome to Day 2 of:

Today I have a couple more activities to do with your kiddos. For Day 1's Activities go HERE.

The first one is a Weather Experiment. I was excited to do this with Kaitlyn. I wanted to teach her about rain and clouds. She had a lot of fun helping me.

For this you will need:

-A clear glass or clear plastic cup

-Shaving Cream

-Blue Food Coloring

-Water

To do this experiment you will first need to fill the cup up with water. We filled ours about 3/4 of the way.

Next, we put in a bunch of shaving cream on top of the water. This acts as our "clouds" for the experiment. Kaitlyn had fun putting it in!!

Then I taught her about the rain and how it comes from the clouds. I put a few drops of blue food coloring in acting as our "rain." She was able to see how it rains from the "clouds!"

Watching it "rain!!!"

Kaitlyn had so much fun with this experiment!!

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The second activity I have for you is Cloud Dough. It totally feels like flour but it can be molded!! It is amazing!

CLOUD DOUGH RECIPE:

-8 CUPS FLOUR

-1 CUP BABY OIL

We used a 9x13 metal pan to put it all in.

This is the 8 cups of flour.

Adding the 1 cup baby oil:

**I mixed it together with a spoon first and then mixed it with my hands to make sure the baby oil got over all the flour.

THE AMAZING CLOUD DOUGH!!!!

Kaitlyn absolutely loved this! She played for hours:)

We even pulled out some cookie cutters!

Hope you had fun reading about the Weather Experiment and Cloud Dough at day 2 of Kids Days!!

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Snow Art & No Mess Painting

This week I am going to be doing a series called:

I thought it would be fun to show you some things that I have been doing with my kids recently. I have been trying to think outside the box...mostly due to Pinterest!!...to have more fun with my kids doing things at home. Trying different experiments and things to play with. I just wanted to get them out of there usual playing with the toys in the house, coloring in coloring books and playing games.

Today I have a couple of different ideas for the kids to color and paint with that are not the usual.

The first is coloring in the snow!!! We live in Utah and so we get snow every winter. This year it has been really mild. Most of the winter has felt like spring. We have only had like 3 big storms that brought snow to the valley's that stayed around for a couple of days. Luckily we had one of those storms a couple of weekends ago!!!

To do this you will need:

-A couple of bottles with a small spout on it

-Food Coloring

-Water

We got our bottles and filled them up with water and added a couple drops of food coloring in. Then shook it to mix it all together to make their "paint."

(I am super mad...I took pictures of all the steps, but something went wrong with my memory card so those pictures are gone now:( I am sure you can follow it without pictures though!!

We made 3 different colors: red, purple and teal. Kaitlyn loved helping make the paint!! Then we went outside and let the kids color all over the front yard! My little Logan who is 15 months even colored! I got a picture of him but that was one of the pictures I lost:(

Here are the pictures from their coloring time in the snow!!

Making a Flower

Painting a Rainbow

Making her own creation

My cute Kaitlyn!!

She absolutely loved being able to color the snow! Like I said above my 15 month old enjoyed it as well. We will be doing this again for sure...that is when we get more snow!!!

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The Second thing I have for you is No Mess Painting. I actually saw this on Pinterest and knew that Kaitlyn would love it so we just had to try it out!!

What you will need:

-Ziploc bag

-Paints

-Masking tape

All you need to do is put a few drops of paint in the Ziploc bag. You can put a few different colors in the same bag. Then seal it tight and tape it to the counter.