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Chick-fil-a Upcycling Challenge 2017

 I have once again accepted the Chick-fil-a Mom's Panel Upcycling Challenge! Last year we made salad bowls into fun new things (and I was one of the winners!), but this year we had to think smaller! 
We were given the tough task of purchasing and consuming a small bowl of Chicken Tortilla Soup from Chick-fil-a. Tough job, but somebody had to do it! (One of my favorite menu items there!!!) 
We were then supposed to come up with a fun use for the bowls once they were empty. 
Pretty much the only thing my 8 year old does is play with/talk about/think about/watch LEGO, so I started to think about brick activities. He's great at following the directions that come with sets, but I thought it might be time to try something harder, so along came... LEGO Challenge Boxes.

 First, I selected the pieces I would use
and hot glued a base plate to the lid.

 
I then built a variety of structures using only the
bricks in the bowl, then photographed them from the
front and the back, so he could see all of the pieces.
 I printed the pictures out and glued them back to
back, to keep the front and back together. He then
went to work deciding which design to try first. 

 You know he's working hard with the tongue comes out. 

 Trying to figure out what comes next...

 Done! Here's the front side!

 
And here's the back!
 Then we moved on to the harder box.
ALL THE SAME COLOR. 

 He definitely agreed that these were harder to figure out.

 Since I just printed these on our printer at home, the pictures 
weren't too clear, but once we sat at the computer and looked at 
the originals, he was able to get it. I will print them again at the 
store as photographs and it should work much better!

 That was tough!

 And one of my favorite things about this project is that it's portable! 
He can do it in the car and the pieces are contained in the bowl.  

 And when he's all done playing, the bricks and 
photo cards all fit right back inside the bowl. 
Perfect for home or on the go!

We really enjoyed this second year of the
Chick-fil-a Mom's Panel Upcycling Challenge!
Hoping to do it again someday!

Posted in: , on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at at 10:42 PM 1 comments  

Chick-fil-A Upcycling Challenge

 
As a member of the Chick-fil-A Mom Panel 2015-2016, we were challenged to get a new Chick-fil-A Spicy Southwest Salad (Yum! And only 420 calories!) and then take the container and upcycle it into something fun. 

Two of my son's favorite things are his Legos...


...and his sandbox...
 

Because it's been raining so much lately and we've been stuck inside, I thought it would be a fun idea to combine the two and have fun with sand inside! 

We started out with the cleaned out container and filled it with sand from our sandbox. The only problem with the container was the fact that there were holes in the lid. I wanted to protect it from spilling when we were finished, because nobody wants sand all over their house! 

 I pulled out my tape collection (yellow electric tape and black striped washi) and decorated the lid. I chose this design to match the construction theme, but it also served the purpose of covering up the holes. Cute and functional!

You see where this is going? So much cuteness.
I did put it on a tray to try to contain the mess, but next time I'll put it in something bigger, like an under-bed storage container, because sand still got on the kitchen floor.

 He was very excited to play with his Legos in the
sand AND play with sand in the house!




 He loves to bury things in the sand and dig them back out. 

"Aaaah! Help me!!!"



 After a little while, we took the Legos out, sprayed it down to make it wet, and got out the alphabet fondant cutters. He had just as much fun with this as he did the Legos. I'm pretty sure we'll be pulling this out in the fall as another way to practice spelling words!



 

 



 When we were all finished, we popped that lid back on, 
which secures very well, and put it away for next time. 
Thanks for the upcycling challenge, Chick-fil-A Mom's Panel! 
We both really enjoyed it!


Posted in: , on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at at 9:11 AM 0 comments  

Party Time!

Another thing we've been doing a LOT on Saturdays is birthday parties. Here are just a few we've been to in the past few months.

Caleb's was at a skating rink . The kids all brought ride on toys since they were little and can't skate yet. It was fun!

Jake enjoyed pretending to drive.

Ryder's party was at a local gymnastics place. 
The foam pit was awesome!

The in-ground trampoline was Jake's favorite.

(Blurry) Dancing with the birthday boy!

A lot of running happened. This was a really long trampoline.

Jake had his first blower.

The same afternoon as Ryder's party we went to Parker's party. 
Parker's grandpa bought him this sweet bounce house.

Pinata Time!

 
They filled the ball pit with balloons! Fun!

And then cousin Joey's first birthday!
Jake LOVES Joey!

Jake and Joey sharing the car post-birthday cake.
(Thus Joey's nakedness.)

Posted in: , , , on Friday, July 13, 2012 at at 1:16 PM 2 comments  

Museum Day

Since I started working again, I'm trying to plan fun things for us to do on Saturdays. Jon works Saturdays, so it's usually just me and Jake venturing out.

One week we went to the children's museum.

They had a dinosaur exhibit at that point. 
Jake enjoyed it.  
Despite how it looks here.
 
I was honestly SHOCKED at how big 
the triceratops head was. HUGE!

They have a cute little kid play area to explore.

Of course Jake liked the pirate ship.

They had a really neat shadow wall where your shadow was multi-colored. We spent the most time here. Jake really had fun with it.

Making a hurricane. Or something.

It was wicked hard to pull him up on this. 
I'm not sure why. 
(See the black line on the left?
 That's me pulling him up with the rope.)

A little tennis ball bowling.

Doing the weather report.

I was there too.

After the museum and lunch, we stopped by our almost-every-Saturday stop: Petsmart. Or as Jake calls it "The Dog Fair". These little guys were too cute to not take a picture.

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