Our life's adventure

Kids baking set

ultramommy — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:39:23 +0000

My daughter got this Paula Deen 19-Piece Kids Baking set for her birthday.

I love the fact that it comes in the easy to use box so hopefully all 19 pieces will not get lost.

So far we only got to use a whisk while preparing the egg omelet. I am really hoping to find time with V in the near future to use the rest of the utensils.

My 4 years old daugther’s cooking birthday party

ultramommy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:34:59 +0000

I was looking for an interesting way to celebrate my daughter’s 4th birthday in the circle of her closest girlfriends. Finally, I came across the idea of a cooking party. After browsing the web for couple of days looking for inspirations and ideas I came up with the party plan for our cookie decorating party. First, the girls had to turn into the chefs. For that they had to decorate chef hats and aprons. I’ve asked the girls to write their names on the hats and draw something on the aprons.

After that they put on their creations and were ready to get messy. However I had a couple of games planned for them in order to give them necessary cooking utensils. First was the tasting game. I’ve used cupcake forms to put pieces of food for the girls to try. The girls tasted lemon, sugar, salt, strawberry, kiwi, sour cream, tomato, cucumber, etc. Trying to make the game fair, once I’ve picked the food to try, I closed my eyes, turned in the circle of girls and picked the girl in random. The girl who tasted the food stepped out of the circle and got little whisk as a prize. Then we were trying to play a game edible or non-edible, but girls were too eager to start making cookies, so we wrapped up the game and got messy.

We already had the dough ready in the refrigerator. So the plan was to roll out the dough, cut out the cookies and then paint them with egg yolk tinted with food colors. First, I showed girls how to separate egg yolk. The response that I got was ‘YAK’. Each girl got one egg yolk with a little water added and had to whisk it with food color.

After that, each girl got a piece of dough, tasted it, cut out the cookies, painted them and decorated with sprinkles.

Here are the final products…

The girls got rolling pins, whisk, aprons and hats as party favors and little bags with their cookies.

NY Cake was a great place to get different sprinkles, colored sugars, edible eyes, different cookie cut outs and other related things for the party.

Here is the list of things that I bought from the web…

The Messy Monster

ultramommy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Finally we have unpacked the Crafty Kit by Alex Toys and created our own Messy Monster. I thought it would be a good craft activity to start talking about Halloween with Vika. All it took is a little glue, two giant wiggly eyes, two legs made from pipe cleaners and lots of paper curls. Once we were done, Vika made the scary monster sound and asked me if I was scared:). After that she wanted the Messy Monster to talk to her. So the Messy Monster thanked her for creating him and they’ve talked about Halloween.

My two years old’s favorite toys

ultramommy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:49:36 +0000

Here is the list of my two years old’s favorite toys.
Garden Fresh Fruits & Veggies by I-Play

Small World Toys Peel ‘N’ Play Vegatables by Small World

Disney Winnie Pooh Music Storybook

Little Doctor Kit Pretend Play Set

Storefront bingo cards

Chicco Doll Pram

Arabian Horse by Plan Toys

Zoo Mix ‘n Match Peg Puzzle

What are you toddlers favorite toys?

Coloring the autumn leaf

ultramommy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:24:32 +0000

I like autumn. This season brings so much color to out lives. So I’ve decided that today’s coloring activity would be coloring the leaf using the autumn color palate. As a result, I opened up my browser and went on the hunt for leaf print outs. Here is a link to the site where I found my perfect autumn leaf and some other ones.

http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/cpfall.shtml
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/coloringpages/l/blfallcoloring.htm
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/cpseasons_autumn.htm
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/coloring/leafcolor.htm

Vika always loves when I print out something for her from the computer. She stands by the printer and patiently waiting for the paper to come out. So, here is the her first try in coloring the big autumn leaf.

Painted cauliflower

ultramommy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:10:25 +0000

Here is an idea for your next toddler art project. Paint the vegetables. So far we only painted the cauliflower. Vika got very involved in the process. I am sure we’ll be painting more veggies…

Toddler paper towel art

ultramommy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:05:09 +0000

After 3 minutes of painting using paint brush and hands, Vika suddenly decided to clean the paper that she was painting on. So, I gave her a little bit wet paper towel and she started wash the paint away . After she was done, I realized that the papper towel has become the final art peace of our art session.

Here is the final result: