The Nature of Things

We had a small group of children join us for our Nature of Things Camp...it was a beautiful day so we spent the bulk of it outside...we painted birdhouses...

Then we headed inside to make some Hot Rocks! We kept things simple but this is the basic idea here.

I loved watching the kids discover hand-stitching! They did such a great job creating their butterfly nets! I found this tutorial here.

One of the most popular activities of the day was painting plant stakes (aka paint stir sticks!) I took the time to paint one myself...it was so fun!

We ended our day with Nature Books (with a ziplock bag inserted) along with pinecone bird feeders.

Another fun, rewarding day here at Creative Bug HQ!

Enjoy!

Heather

A horse is a horse, of course!

It seems like ages ago that this party was booked by the birthday girl's mother! We met at our Grand Re-opening and the invitations went out before school finished...and now here it is the end of July. I am not really sure what happened to the rest of the month!

As I am sure you have guessed from the above photo, we did shrink art...

We also made soap...it's tricky to get photos of everything!

Then, the highlight of the party, if I do say so myself, were these super-adorable horse cupcakes! They were so fun to make and no 2 turned out the same!

Happy Birthday! I sure hope you had a wonderful day!

Enjoy!

Heather

Creative Cooks!

I can't believe how much time has gotten away from me! I meant to blog this before we left for vacation and here I am just posting it now! Things have been busy around here!

We started our day off by preparing ourselves...first our aprons...

First we stenciled them then we got out the potato stamps (one of my favourite tools!)

We decorated chef's hats, prepared our recipe books and copied out the first recipe then finally set to the real work! Tzatziki for dipping!

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We also made black bean dip so that we would have options to dip the chips in! And here they are making their chips...each of the chefs made their own batch with their chosen seasonings on them!

Next up Pastry Tarts! Pastry is not one of my strong points but these girls held it together and did a great job!

We cheated a little here and used instant pudding to fill our pastry cups (I am not Wonder Woman and we had a timeline to work with!)

Finally! A box to transpost some of their goodies home, they also decorated matching chip bags for their salty snacks!

One group of Creative Cooks!

The girls were kind enough to bake up a special batch of chips for me to bring home...it was such a great day!

Enjoy!

Heather