Happy Earth Day! Toddler activities

We had such a BEAUTIFUL spring day to celebrate our Earth Day! In Carter's home preschooling we have been talking about Earth Day all week, along with recycling, talking about bugs, animals, and nature.  Today we wrapped it all up with fun Earth Day activities!
Some of the things we did were:
-Earth Day snack -DIY Recycled watering can -DIY Recycled windsock -and we read some Earth Day related books outside
See our fun day in the video linked below. Enjoy!

DIY Rainbow Salsa

If heaven was in vegetable form... this would be it!

Talk about the freshest most refreshing recipe, this one is just my favorite!

There is a lot of chopping involved, but if you have a hand chopper, that will cut out a lot of that time.

Ingredients:

-Can of corn

- Can of black beans

-Red, yellow, and orange bell peppers

-3 Tomatoes

-Red onion

-Lime

-Cilantro

-Cumin

-Salt

-Garlic Powder

To see the full tutorial, click the video below!

Enjoy!

DIY Play Dough

My son LOVES play dough... no really... L.O.V.E.S. play dough.  Play dough happens every single day in our house.  We go through a can of play dough basically every day around here.  He leaves it out, he plays with it so much it gets gross, half ends up on the floor... you get the idea.

I have been washing and storing the little play dough cans for just this occasion.  Time to make some new home made play dough!

Here's the ingredients you'll need:

-Flour

-Water

-Salt

-Oil

-Cream of Tartar

-Food Color

-Wood Spoon

-Sauce Pan

See the video below to see the full tutorial!

Enjoy!

SURPRISE! Wizard of Oz Party

Guys... my mom is seriously THE BEST MOM.
She beats me in the "Mommaing" for sure.  Mainly because not only is she a great mom to me but a great GRAMMA to my kids.  That's double duty right there.
We got her tickets to see the production of The Wizard of Oz for her 55th birthday.
Sure, I could have wrapped them up and just handed them to her - but that's NO FUN.
In comes the SURPRISE Wizard of Oz themed birthday party!
We had already taken her out to dinner (we had the best homemade gourmet hamburgers of our lives y'all!).  This was after dinner where we brought her back to our home for dessert - or so she thought.
Here's are a few photos from her special night, if you'd like to see more details and the look on her surprised face, watch the video linked below.
Enjoy!

GLITTER SHOE TUTORIAL:

http://dailydiyer.blogspot.com/2016/04/diy-glitter-shoes.html

Table Cloth Rainbow Curtain

Emerald City

(Gift table)

The Witch's Castle

(Dessert Buffet)

Kansas themed dining table

For all the details of this party see the video below:

DIY Glitter Shoes

Are you scared of glitter?  Does it give you panic attacks?
yeah... me too. However I went for it on this one!  And you know what, it wasn't so bad!

Here are the supplies you'll need:
Mod Podge (I used Matte) EXTRA FINE Glitter Optional: Polycrylic Foam paint brush
Watch my tutorial below to see how to make these adorable glitter shoes!
Enjoy!