Chocolate Football Sugar Cookies

We went to our church to watch the super bowl on a GIANT blow up screen.  They serve yummy foods and everyone brings a dessert to share.  I thought it would be fun to make football cookies.  I found a chocolate sugar cookie recipe and Emily and I got to baking!

 

Emily is becoming such a great helper, I was able to leave her to do all the scooping…

 

…while I went to see what Juliette was up too while Daddy was watching her, I think she wanted to help too!

 

I gave her a little rolling pin and some of her own dough to roll out.  I used a oval cookie cutter and pinched the sides a little bit to make it football shaped.

I melted white chocolate and put it in a squeeze bottle and let my husband decorate the football with laces.

Emily got to help decorate a few of her own cookies too!

Muffin Tin Monday

This week there was no theme for Muffin Tin Monday, so we decided to have our lunch at Grandma’s house (I left my muffin tin there so figured we would raid her fridge for lunch!)

Emily’s Muffin Tin Lunch

Top Row: Mozzarella cheese circles, Fruit cocktail, Chocolate sugar cookie football

Bottom Row: Pita chips, Hummus, More pita chips

 

Emily and I made these delicious little football cookies for a Super Bowl party at our church last night.  I saved a few for a Muffin Tin treat!!

 

Emily and Daddy watching the game last night!!

 

Juliette thought her cups were much more exciting than the game!!

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 35 months old

This week Emily has been sick so we spent the week at home. She was tired and spent most off the time resting on the cough, however we did manage to fit in some fun activities and projects when she was feeling up to it.

Emily enjoyed this fine motor skills practice. I cute pink, red, white and silver pipe cleaners to fit inside an empty onion powder container. She spent a good amount of time filling it, twisting of the lid, emptying it and filling it again. I thought the Valentine’s Day Colored Pipe Cleaners made it all the more fun :0)

We made a fun Mr. Groundhog puppet to go with a cute Mr. Groundhog song to celebrate Groundhogs Day!

Aunt Jennifer came over and was coloring with Emily and Juliette was very excited to get in on the fun!

Emily enjoyed playing with the Valentine’s Day Lacing Hearts that I made for her. This was another fun fine motor skills practice activity.

I saw these groundhog color by number printable on Our Little Family and Emily LOVED them. They were great for practicing numeral recognition and colors. We also did the Roll and Color Groundhogs Day game too!

Emily built a Block Maze for the cars and dolls to walk through. Next time I think we need to bring out the Duplos because we ran out of blocks pretty quickly!

Recently Emily has been really into stamping we played a counting game with this snowflake stamp. We took turns rolling the dice to see how many snowflakes to make. We played until the paper was filled up. We both had fun and it was great counting practice for Emily.

For our stART project this week we read Pooh Loves You and Emily made a Love Collage. Emily was able to cut out all the pictures without any help. She was very proud of herself and excited to start cutting out her own things now!

After our family dinner Emily showed Grandpa how to make ice cream with her play-doh ice cream set.

She also showed everyone how she nurses pink baby! I am so proud of her :0)

Emily has been very interested in her name so when I found this site that lets you make your own dot tracing printable I knew I had to make one with her name, so she can practice writing it. I laminated the printable so that she will be able to reuse it!

Our favorite books from this week:

• Groundhog Stays Up Late ~ Margery Cuyler
• Pooh Loves You ~ Fran Posner
• Bear Shadow ~ Frank Asch
• Good Night Moon ~ Margret Wise Brown

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stART ~ Pooh Loves You

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

This week we read Pooh Loves You, by FranPosner. This is a cute rhyming story featuring Winnie the Pooh and the things that he loves.

I though it would be fun to make a collage of the things that Emily loves to go along with the story. Emily was happy to tell me all of the things that she loves. I thought it was cute that some of them were the same as Winnie the Pooh’s!!

Emily’s Love Collage

After reading the story I asked Emily what she loved, I wrote them down and then we searched for pictures of them on the computer. I also asked her what color paper she wanted. She said “Green because I love Green!”

I printed the sheet out and had Emily cut each picture out.

Next, she glued on a heart doilie and the pictures she cut out

I gave her some heart stickers to decorate it with too.

When she was all finished I wrote Emily Loves…. on the doilie and labeled each picture.

Valentine’s Day Sensory Tub

 

PomPoms and Glittery Sensory Fun!!

Emily loves her rice sensory tub.  Usually we only have rice and some shovels and buckets in it, but for Valentine’s Day I added pink, white, red and purple pom poms in a variety of sizes.  I also added some pink, silver and red sequins.   I am thinking about adding some small foam hearts too!

The girls at the rice tub. 

 

Why use a sensory tub?  At first I thought this same thing, but decided to give it a try.  Emily loved it from the second her little fingers touched all those little pieces of rice.  For Emily if found our sensory tub  great for practicing, scooping, pouring, sifting all while having a lot of fun.  There are also many other benefits too.  Here is a great recourse about sensory tables or tubs.

Do you use a sensory tub at your house?? 

If you do what do you usually put in yours??

Kids in the Kitchen ~ S’mores Bars

After dinner the other night we were all craving something sweet for dessert.  I found an amazing recipe for S’mores Bars, to use up the giant bag of chocolate chips and marshmallows that I bought at BJ’s around Christmas. 

Oh My goodness were they tasty!!

Of course my little helper had a great time making these with me!

 We had to make crumbs out of the graham crackers.  Emily started them and then said “Mommy you do it, this is really tricky and you have bigger muscles” 

Emily is a wonderful mixer and didn’t need any help for this step.

I didn’t get any other pictures because I set the camera down and just enjoyed working with Emily.  She loved helping me scatter the chocolate chips, marshmallows, and crumb topping.

After about 15 minutes in the oven we were all enjoying our yummy S’mores Dessert!!

I made a few changes in the recipe so here is my version of S’mores Bars:

Mix together 1 stick of melted butter, and about 5 cups graham cracker crumbs. Press half the mixture into a 9x13 pan and bake for 5 minuets.   Then layer 2 cups chocolate chips, 3 cups marshmallows and then cover with the other half of the graham cracker mixture. Press it down with a spatula. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes, let cool and cut into bars.

After it cooled it was not as gooey as when it first comes out of the oven.  At first I was like there is no way we are going to be able to eat these and we couldn’t wait so we used a fork.  But, the next day you could actually hold them in your hand and eat them like a brownie.  That made for super easy snacking, they did not last long :0)

Mr. Groundhog

When I was observing a pre-school class before I was a teacher I saw this project and loved it!  Last year I made one for Emily and found this cute song to go with it.  This year Emily got to help make a new one.  She loved singing and playing with the puppet again this year!!

 

I printed out a groundhog picture and reduced it to the print on a 4x6 card.  Emily colored the groundhog in with brown marker.

 

I cut out a piece of white construction paper and Emily colored it  green, then we glued it around a paper cup.  We taped Mr. Groundhog to a straw and stuck it through a hole that I poked in the bottom of the cup.

 

Emily’s Mr. Groundhog Puppet.

When we were finished we sang the Mr. Groundhog Song

Mr. Groundhog--Tune: "Frere Jacques"

Mr. Groundhog, Mr. Groundhog,

Take a peek, Take a peek.

If you see your shadow

The weather will be awful

For six more weeks, six more weeks.

 

I was so happy to get a video of Emily singing!!