Monster knees!

My son is SUPER hard on the knees of his pants.  It used to drive me CRAZY... until I found this totally cute way to "fix" them in Family Fun magazine!  He loves them and now they will last a bit longer.  I used flannel and felt, hopefully he won't wear through them right away.  Even if he does, at least they got one more wear, right? =)

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Best way to peel/chop crayons

There are lots of great tutorials on how to use silicon molds and melt your crayons into shapes. This is not one of these. This is the best way to get the crayons out of the wrappers BEFORE you melt them and make them into better crayons.

Peeling and chopping with a knife is labor intensive and a pain in the...well hands. I thought to myself "Self, there has to be an easier way."

VOILA! I present to you...an easier way. Use a hammer. Start at one end and with a medium amount of pressure start whacking along the whole crayon. The wrapper should tear in one easy line, and the crayon inside is left broken up in perfect small pieces.

You should be able to dump the crayon out in one easy motion and have a whole wrapper to throw away instead of tearing off small ridiculous pieces.

Simple as that. You can divide your colors up easily (or dump them all together if you are going for a multi color look.

100th day of school treats

For the 100th day of school, I went to WalMart and got some of the "100 calorie" treats. I used address label to print "It's been a great" and "days in Mrs. Robbin's class" and stuck them above and below the 100 printed on the package. I also made my boy a 100 day shirt by cutting vinyl and sticking it to the shirt then spraying with bleach. It was cute and super easy. I blotted the bleach with a white towel so there were no puddles, then peeled the stickers off before washing.

Go 'Hawks!

I made these with some left over lumber and left over paint, 1 piece of 12x12 paper, some vinyl and my Cricut! ONly took a couple hours, and my son is SO excited about them! Go team!

RS prayer badges

So every week, we (the RS presidency) face the tedious process of finding prayers in RS. Usually we ask 3 or 4 people who all say no before we go to the same reliable people over and over. So... I had the idea of making badges that we will just set on the board. As people come in, if they feel inspired to say the prayer, they grab a badge and wear it. No pressure, no hassle. They are different colors so that we can see at a glance who has volunteered for which prayer. We laminated them, and added badge holders so they just clip onto your blouse. It has been a great tool for us. We have had some people who always said "no" when asked face to face volunteer. Everyone can see it sitting there if no one has volunteered when we start RS, so usually someone will sneak up and grab it. Feel free to use them!

The shenanigans of Dinkle Sneakytoes

Meet Dinkle Sneakytoes, our very own scout elf. He has been getting into some mischief lately. It seems that the naughtier the kids are during the day, the naughtier Dinkle is at night. Here are some of his shenanigans.

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