3rd Birthday Balloon Wreath

When I saw a birthday wreath over at In Between Laundry, 

I decided I had to make one (sort of like it) for Henry's birthday today!

I plan to use this wreath over and over again for upcoming birthdays 

and switch out the numbers for each kid.

I modified the wreath (obviously) to use what I had on hand.

Here's what Henry and I did to make the

3rd Birthday Balloon Wreath:

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Happy 3rd Birthday Henry!

Henry through the years.


Henry today.[technically this photo was taken last weekend.]3 years old!Happy Birthday Henry!

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It's Playtime! : Come to the Playdate!

Please join our playdate!

[hosted by]
Quirky Momma, The Imagination Tree, and hands on : as we grow
And please give our new host Messy Kids a big welcome to the playdate!

Can I first tell you all how utterly pleased I am with last week's playdate party?
We had 90+ posts join our playdate!
[can you imagine if that was a real playdate? Oh, the chaos!]
That is amazing and I super-duper appreciate you all coming to play with us!

Before we get on with the playdate:
Check out these awesome Playtime posts from last week!
[All from blogs that are new to me! That's what I'm most excited about! All my new playdate friends!  
Thanks for introducing me to your blogs!]
Be sure to give our Playdates a High Five! 

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[1] Recycled Pontoon Boats [Green Kid Crafts] : Create a floating pontoon! Don't let it get away from you!

[2] Straw Propelled Rockets [Brimful Curiosities] : I love this fool- child-proof way of creating rockets!

[3] Bubble Obstacle Course [The Great Green Room] : An activity course for your toddler or even a crawler! 

[4] Potions Laboratory [Adventures at Home] : Cleaning out your cupboards? Create a laboratory!

[5] Treasure Map [Gingersnap Alley] : I need to find a way to Henry to read a map. Suggestions?

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Henry and I have been spending a lot of times outdoors (making a bird's nest),

creating a yarn garland, and are loving the tracks made in homemade playdough.

How have you been spending your playtime?

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about playtime with the kids!

[Anything play-based and creative goes!]

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- Henry is 3 years -   

Yarn Circle Garland

I'm not really sure what to call this craft,

because the craft got adjusted many times during the process.

But this is the beautiful result:

Remember last week when I had two failed crafts 

before having a success with the vehicle tracks painting?

Well, this is one of the failures.

Turned out to not be a failure after all.

What did Henry and I do to make this?

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Homemade Play Doh : It's [much] Softer!

As I've mentioned a few times already,
Henry is on a huge PlayDoh kick lately.

One day last week, Henry and I were with his Grandma.
He wanted to play with PlayDoh.
Grandma's PlayDoh had gotten kind of hard and crumbly.

So we set off to make our own.
I've seen many of you guys doing this.
I, honestly, thought it would be way too much work and didn't want to bother with it.
[I've made PlayDoh before, but I was a child...]

We dug out an old recipe out of an old church cookbook.
My mom submitted the recipe long ago.
[The recipe we used is at the end of this post.]

It took only a few minutes to make.

With the exception of Alum,
everything is something I would have on hand.
[Luckily, my mom did, probably leftover from long ago when we last made PlayDoh]

Granted, Henry didn't get in on making the PlayDoh.
But he did enjoy the outcome.
This Homemade PlayDoh is so soft and pliable,
Henry was able to do so much more with it compared to the store bought stuff.

Take a look at these tracks!

Let's see what else that made some neat impressions:

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Building a Bird's Nest : Outdoors in April

Henry and I have been talking about making a bird's nest for a couple weeks now.

This week it finally got warm enough to spend the entire morning or afternoon (or both!) outdoors.

To make our bird's nest,

Henry and I headed outside to gather our materials for the nest:

small sticks, leaves, dead grass

I also used a couple small boxes (from our gigantic baby food order).

Henry spent the majority of our nest building day, digging dirt.

[This could not have been done without the help of the blue tractor or the dump truck...]

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Photo Project 365 : [93-99]

What have we been up to this week?

Match up the numbers [day of the year] on the snapshots to the week below.

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