Sandpaper Letters

I am creating my own Montessori materials for my childcare and I think that sandpaper letters are very important to help with language development. I purchased all the materials at the Dollar Tree. In total it cost me $9.45 not including the glue I already had and I have some materials left over for other projects.

I looked all over Microsoft Word for the correct text to be used, but I didn't find anything I liked. I ended up googling and found this awesome blog that pointed to this site http://www.montessorimaterials.org/lang2.html and used Cursive - Lower Case.

I cutted them out from the pdf and then traced them on the yellow foam sheets. I glued them down using Turbo tacky glue by Aleene's. Vowels on blue and consonants on red.

I really liked how this project turned out and I can't wait to share it with my toddler.

Making Salve

Making first aid salve is a lot of work. It is a two day process! I gather the herbs the first day and process them over night. The next day is when the all the fun begins. It is a bit messy but also fun.

Plantain from the yard. We don't spray our yard because we know what most people call weeds we call medicines. 

Gathered leaves. Two bundles of 30!

I did half of Castor Oil & half of Olive Oil. I leave the plantain & calendula for 4 hours and then strain it and add the same amount to leave over night. 

The next day I strain the plantain and calendula.

I also Vit E oil and Lavender essential oil to the salve.

Next I added the beewax and wait for it to melt. Around 15-30 min.

From there we are pretty much all done! Just place in containers and put in the freezer to set.

All done and ready for selling and using! $15 for 30g and $2 for 5g. I will be setting up at the Oneida Farmer's Market or email me to order. starrmerrie@gmail.com

Party Time with Number One

Still can't believe Anthony is One! His party was a huge hit! It was a Monster Theme, because Anthony is my little monster. We invited 26 over and pretty much everyone came. I think was the perfect amount of people for his party. Shawn and I both have big families so we both just invited one Auntie each and all Anthony's baby friends.

THE CAKE

Loved his cakes! We got them at Festival Foods. The bakery team there is awesome. I gave them a photo of a cake and asked if they would be able to create it. 

I hand drew this and asked if it could go on his smash cake. His cakes turned out WAY better than I could have imagine! The bonus part is that smash cakes are free and the bigger cake was only $15.99. I thought it was going to be around $35 so that was a plesant surpise.

PHOTO COLLAGE

ADOPT A MONSTER

I made little monsters out of scrap material and bought some bubbles and drew faces on them.

HANGIN' WITH HIS BUDDY

Party Time! All the kids and babies loved the bouncers.

Anthony helping me set up. :)

PRESENT TIME

Anthony and me opening his gifts! He had fun looking at everything.

CAKE SMASH

What an awesome mess!