Sharing Saturday 14-23

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Thank you to everyone who shared with us last week! Once again I was blown away with the ideas! If you have not had a chance to check them all out, please do. We will start our features tonight with the most clicked from View from the Fridge: Think Outside the Toy Box: Glow Stick Ideas for Kids.

My features this week are in two categories. The first is June/Summer and holidays (remember in the US Father's Day is next weekend!!), and the second is just a few of my favorites from last week.

Summer and June Features

1) From Mamas Blog Central: 50 Father's Day Ideas

2) From  Just a Touch of Crazy: His Little Girl, Father's Day Print

3) From Stella 123: Ten Card Making Ideas for Your Child's Teacher 

4) From Tot Schooling: Free Birthday Printable Pack 

5) From Living Montessori Now: Montessori-Inspired Age and Birthday Activities 

A Few of My Favorites

1) From Sparkling Buds: Watermelon Printing

2) From Dabbling Mama: Princess Rocks 

3) From Excite and Explore: DIY Farm Play Mat 

4) From Planet Smarty Pants: The Magic of Chocolate 

5) From Teaching Every Day: Ten Ways to Learn with Water Beads 

Thank you to everyone who shared last week!! I hope you will join us and share again!! If you are featured here, please feel free to grab a featured button to display proudly on your blog. 

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From Your Hostess: This week we shared many DIY ideas for our Minnie Mouse party which is tomorrow. Here is a preview of the cake we made today. I tried to burn one candle half way since we are celebrating her half birthday.

 Ok, for Minnie DIY ideas we shared Easy Minnie & Mickey Mouse Cake Plates, DIY Pin a Bow on Minnie Game, DIY Minnie Mouse Decorations, and our Minnie Mouse Party Menu! We also shared this week Angkat: A Cambodian Cinderella and our review of The Air Plant Shop and we are hosting a giveaway for $30 gift certificate from this wonderful shop!!

Make sure you enter our giveaway for the $30 gift certificate to the Air Plant Shop!! They have such neat things and  fun easy craft ideas!

Our Air Plant Craft

Now for This Week's Party  
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Minnie Mouse Birthday Party--DIY Decorations

For Hazel's half birthday party, I have some store bought Minnie Mouse decorations and some from Oriental Trading to review that Hazel picked out. However, I wanted to keep costs down and make some of our own. I have seen so many fun ideas online and have been pinning them to my Minnie Mouse Party Pinterest Board. I loved the idea of making Minnie head decorations from styrafoam balls. The first time I saw this was on The NY Melrose Family's Minnie Mouse Centerpieces. We did this. I glued them and Hazel painted them black. After the paint dried, I stuck a lollipop stick into each one.

Minnie Mouse Party Food

 So the party is this weekend and we finally figured out what to serve. Our menu includes:

• Minnie's Bow-tique Pasta
• Mickey's Meatballs
• Hot Diggety Dog Hot Dogs
• Oh, Toodles! Pizza
• Daisy's Garden Vegetables and Donald's Dips
• Goofy's Grapes and Fruit Bow-quet
• Minnie's Bow-tique Fruit Bows
• Minnie's Pink Polka-Dot Punch
• And of course a Minnie Cake!

DIY Pin The Bow On Minnie Mouse Game

We have been working on final things for the Minnie Mouse party. It is this weekend! Today among other things, I made the Pin a Bow on Minnie Mouse game. Hazel really wants to play this one! To make it, I used a piece of black poster board, a white piece of paper and some polka-dot cardstock (I found it at Target). I used a large bowl and a small/medium bowl to make the head and a yellow-green colored pencil to show up on the black poster board. On the back of the poster board I traced the large circle bowl. Then I put the small bowl roughly where I wanted an ear and I had it overlap the large circle just a bit and traced it. Then I put it on the other side for the other ear. Once I got it how I liked it, I cut it out.

Air Plants Product Review and Giveaway

Disclosure: I was sent these products to review free of charge from The Air Plant Shop. All opinions in this post are my own. I did not receive any other compensation for this review. I am including links to each item for your convenience but do not receive anything if you purchase them. They are also providing a gift certificate for the giveaway.

Have you noticed that terrariums are in again? My mother's craft group has been making a few different types. She recently made an air plant one or is at least working on it. I was visiting her this past weekend and saw it and told her about how I was just asked to review products from The Air Plant Shop. When I was asked I thought it would be a fun and easy craft to do with Hazel and it would be interesting to see how to take care of air plants. I showed Hazel the pictures on The Air Plant Shop Air Plant Gifts page. I figured it would be easier to see them put together and choose. She chose the Beautiful Sky Blue Terrarium with Pink Sea Urchin, Seashell and Air Plant. They were quick to send us the products. Unfortunately for Steve, they came while I was away, so he got to do the initial soaking.

When we got home from our weekend away, Hazel and I were excited to put together our terrarium. I poured the sand into the glass and then started arranging the items, but Hazel immediately told me she wanted to put some in, so I let her.

Once we had it all arranged, we decided to put it in Hazel's room. You need a bright, indirect sunlit spot.

They are easy to care for too! You soak the plant once a week for thirty minutes and then let it dry and return it to the display. Air plants get their nutrients from air and water. They have great care instructions on their website as well. The instruction card they sent with the plant also mentioned that the plant will most likely have babies!! That means we will get even more terrariums!

I am very happy with our terrarium and its ease. I am also very happy with the service I received from The Air Plant Shop. I highly recommend them! They also were kind enough to donate a $30 gift certificate to their store for one of my lucky readers!! So head over and check out all the great products and ideas on their website and enter to win the $30 gift certificate below! The giveaway ends June 17 at 12 a.m. EDT. My giveaway rules in are effect.

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