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e was following along and making sure the lines were parallel i can t stress how important this is if they aren t parellel lines the cake will look not like a cake which just isn t fun when you re doing a cake project next students need to begin coloring and shading using oil pastel i told them they could go crazy with as many layers as they wanted but to remember that every layer needed to be colored in so if they were super thin they would have trouble keeping the lines clean have them start by 1 coloring in each layer with a base color next they will 2 blend using white oil pastel going toward the center finally they will 3 blend using black oil paste going toward the center i tell my students that they don t need to use fingers or kleenex to blend oil pastel that just coloring on top of the color with the shade will blend it quite nicely once the layers are done they can color the exterior of the cake using the same technique of coloring with the base layer first students can blend the black and white oil pastels coming from the edges and going in toward the center of the cake the top can be colored with an all over color and students can decorate it using candles candies and anything else they can dream up the final step is the add ons a plate a table some cake shadowing some kids went ahead and did wallpaper designs which just took the project up a notch depending on how much time you have there can be a lot of creativity here i love this lesson it would be great to leave with a substitute you could even link them to this page and just have them follow the steps easy peasy have you tried this activity if so please link me in the comments at 2 55 pm 47 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1 hour 2 hours 3d grade 6 grade 7 grade 8 oil pastels substitute friday march 10 2017 scout s home birth today is my daughter scout s first birthday a year ago my baby girl was born in the comfort of my home and in all of my hazy newborn fog i still managed to write out her birth story it s definitely wordy so tldr i had a baby from the start scout s birth was different than juliet s with juliet i knew i was going into labor because my water broke before anything else and within 4 hours she had been born my midwife wendy had been prepping me for scout s birth saying it would likely be very quick maybe half the time of juliet s and that since juliet had been born on her due date it was likely scout would come on hers maybe even the day before scout s due date came and went on march 10th 3 days late around 7 30 in the morning i felt some cramping that didn t feel normal i went downstairs and told joel that he should maybe wait to leave for work in case this was labor an hour later i knew i was having contractions they were happening every three minutes lasting about 30 seconds and were a mild to moderate on the pain scale joel paged the midwife and let her know what was happening more as a heads up but she said she d come right away based on juliet s birth we also called joel s parents to come over as we wanted them there for the birth and to help with juliet while i labored at 8 45 wendy showed up and checked how dilated i was 4 5 cm already she said that things should be over quickly probably within 2 hours or so contractions for this labor were much much worse than with juliet i was feeling a lot of pressure in my back this time a lot around 9 15 i moved up to our bedroom from the living room so that i could have a shower and watch a movie the hot shower helped with the back pain so much i stayed there until i ran out of hot water and it was probably the saddest moment of my life at 10 15 i was checked again and i was 8cm dilated i was pretty positive that this meant i would be pushing within the next hour or so joel put on a movie for me to watch and i spent about an hour going back and forth between pacing sitting and showering in lukewarm water joel had the important job of heating up hot bean bags for me and holding them on my back i m not kidding this basically saved me he was running downstairs every 10 minutes to heat up the beans or get ice water or lemonade or whatever else i thought would help at 12 15pm i was at the end of my rope and asked to be assessed again my midwife and her student checked and told me that i was still only 8cm dilated my water hadn t broken yet and it was basically blocking scout from coming out i asked flat out if they could just break the water and they told me about some of the risks associated with it if they were to break the water and there was any meconium in it i would need to go to the hospital for assessment they gave me another option to help relieve some of the pain to have sterile water injections in my back they did 4 shots of sterile water into my back which they said would feel like 4 painful bee stings honestly the pain of those shots was the only thing that brought me to tears in both my labors combined it was nightmarish by 1 15 the only thing that had changed was that my back pain had lessened but i still wasn t feeling like i could push my water hadn t broken and it was clear it was holding everything back i called my midwives up to my bedroom and asked if they could break the water for me and at this point they agreed that was a good idea and we got ready to do it having my water broken was the neatest part of the entire experience i laid on my back on the floor and wendy waited for a contraction when one came she used a hook to break my water and it literally just exploded she told me the waters were clear and then said to brace myself because it would be time to start pushing any minute by 1 30 i was ready to push so we moved back downstairs to the living room i gave birth to juliet in my living room too and it s definitely where i feel most comfortable in my house i got ready to push and heard the midwives asking joel if he wanted some gloves joel had asked if he could catch scout when she came out at 1 45 i started to actively push it only took 2 or 3 pushes and at 1 54 scout was born into joel s arms with his parents and our then 2 year old daughter juliet watching he handed scout to me and i have never felt such relief in my life to be finished with this exhausting pregnancy and labor and to meet my new girl the midwives immediately said how big she was 9 pounds and that she was an op baby which means that she was back to back with me and facing the wrong way this is why my back pain was so strong during labor this explains why i was in so much more pain than i had been with juliet when scout was born a lot of people asked how juliet reacted to seeing her sister being born really she seemed rather indifferent she watched the whole thing from only a few feet away but she didn t seem particularly horrified or interested or anything for her it was just another thing that happened in our house that day when you deliver a baby at home you re left with your placenta it s kind of bizarre with my first home birth they just said where should we put it and i remember thinking ehh you don t take it with you we stuck it in the freezer and a day later i ended up donating juliet s placenta to a dog search and rescue group in my city that uses them to train the dogs on how to find human organs after juliet s birth i was all kinds of emotional so this time i decided to try placenta encapsulation everything i ve read about it says that it helps with postpartum emotions as well as milk supply energy etc i m not sure if i was just less emotional because it was my second baby or if the pills really did help but i felt overall the recovery from scout s birth was so much easier than juliet s even though her birth was more painful and longer than juliet s i felt so good physically and emotionally for the most part anyway scout s appearance into the world a year ago was wild and painful and not at all what i had expected but i am so happy with my home birth experience we have been fortunate to have two home births with no complications and i really can t recommend a home birth enough to others who have healthy pregnancies it s such a sweet comfortable way to bring a baby into this world at 9 10 am 37 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family home birth wednesday march 8 2017 simple alphabet matching activity here s a quick and easy snack activity snack tivity that my daughter loved have you seen ikea s kex crackers they re cute little letter crackers that are kind of delicious too lately my daughters favorite thing to do is find things that are matchy matchy she will match a dinosaur toy to her dinosaur pants a stuffed animal to its character in a book a few days ago she yelled mama come here quick i dropped everything and rushed to her room only to have her show me that her sock color matchy matchy d a hippo on hungry hungry hippos so when i saw these crackers i knew they d be great for matching alphabet letters i made up a quick printout with letters the same size as the kex crackers then i set up a bowl of crackers and let her play she loved it seriously easiest and quietest snack time ever need a copy of this printout let me know and i can link you one at 10 36 am 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels activities alphabet printable quick toddler thursday march 2 2017 unicorn birthday party part one nutella buttercream unicorn cake being a mom hurtles you through time at a speed that is impossible to put into words here i sit writing a blog post about my now three year old s birthday party how did this happen juliet made it clear in no uncertain terms that she wanted a unicorn party i actually tried many times to change her mind to a teddy bear picnic party so cute right she said no so guess what her sister s birthday theme will be luckily for juliet unicorns are pretty trendy right now there was no shortage of unicorn ideas on the internet to get our creative juices flowing i ll break down a few of my favorite unicorn ideas we used for her party over the next few days first the cake unicorn cakes are everywhere these cakes look daunting but are actually extremely easy to make with a few simple tricks i promise you you can make a great looking unicorn cake too unicorn cakes need to be tall this means several layers of cake so invite all of your neighbors over when you attempt one i tried to find 7 baking pans to keep the size smaller but i swear they don t exist anywhere i found a 6 but it was way too small i ended up using an 8 pan which was fine but it still took 3 boxes of cake mix to get the cake tall enough 5 layers before baking the layers i separated the mix into 4 bowls and dyed three of them pink blue and purple i swirled the colors together with the white mix to get a cute marbled effect that i of course forgot to take pictures of upon cutting the cake have you ever built a layered cake before if not the main trick is to let your cakes cool completely then slice the tops off flat so they don t make a dome when they are stacked that being said i am in no way qualified to explain this whole process to you google is your friend aren t the swirls pretty it looked even cuter when the cake was cut in between each later i slathered on buttercream then when the cake was fully built i did a crumb coat let s talk about the icing for a second nutella buttercream can you even it was so good and so easy if you re into being lazy here s how to make it drive to bulk barn buy a container of buttercream drive home using a hand mixer mix in a big scoop of nutella taste it if it needs more nutella add more guys so good after the crumb coat sits for 30 minutes slather on more icing until the cake is smooth now all that s left to do is make a horn and ears and add in some flowers some fancy people make flowers using icing or fondant but i just grabbed a bunch from dollarama and stuck them in win the horn was made using fondant it s a skewer with two snakes of fondant wrapped around it when making the snakes have them get skinnier on one end then the skinny ends will become the top of the horn the ears were fondant rolled flat then cut into triangle ear shapes the pink inner ear was attached to the white outer ear using a dab of water and stuck into the cake using skewers once you ve stuck in the horn and ears use an icing pen to draw on some eyes and you re done my daughter loved the cake i kind of can t believe how simple it was to make especially since the payoff was so great if you re on the fence about making one i really recommend giving it a shot and if you find a 6 pan anywhere hit a girl up because this cake was huge i ll be back soon with more of the unicorn projects we did for her party have you tried this project if so let me know in the comments at 10 39 am 21 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cake home party planning tuesday february 28 2017 preschool cactus art art with preschool children can be daunting my daughter turned three last week and while she loves arts and crafts i always cringe when she asks to break out the paint she s on a real cactus kick lately who isn t so i thought maybe i could brave the mess and try some watercolors turns out this was a low mess low stress high payoff project that i will definitely try again with different stencils the first part of this project is to make a stencil you could easily draw and cut out a simple stencil of some cacti or any other object but since i have a cricut handy i made a stencil of 3 quick and dirty cacti on photshop and had my robot servant cut them out i used an old sheet of cardstock as my stencil paper something thicker would be even better but since this project is just intended to be a one off a sheet of cardstock works fine after the cricut was done doing its thing i lightly glued the stencil to a piece of watercolor paper computer paper works but watercolor paper blends so much better and if it s something you plan to keep long term then why not go big my daughter used a sponge brush to fill in the cacti she loved this so much she dabbed green paint all over the cacti then added in some blue i think a kid with more experience with watercolors could really have fun with this rainbow blends different colors for each cactus etc once she had filled in the cacti we took off the stencil the next most terrifying step is to add little faces to your pictures because why not right so go ahead hand your three year old a sharpie right next to your light grey couch and just pray success when my girl was finished with the stencils she still wanted to paint so we threw the cut outs of the cacti onto a new sheet of paper and i let her have at it while i tidied up by this point i had already confiscated her water so i just loaded her brush with water and didn t worry about rinsing her brush between colors it looked excellent this whole proje...