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Batty Bug Grub: Kid Friendly Snack to make
“Pencil-licious”
Ingredients: 1 piece of bologna, 1 slice of yellow cheese, 1 bugle, 1 raison
First, lay your bologna onto of your piece of cheese. Then, press the raison onto the tip of the bugle. Roll the bologna and cheese up as tight as you can and hold it together with the bugle. Make sure there is enough bologna sticking out of the back end to make an eraser and shape the raison to make the pencil lead. Voila! A back-to-school pencil-licious treat! Make this at home…
Or you can enjoy this entertaining treat for “School Times” week at Bellaboo’s, August 30 – September 5.
Teddy Bear Roll-Up
Ingredients: one 12 inch plain flour tortilla, 1 slice of turkey lunch meat, 1 slice of American or cheddar cheese, a teddy bear cookie-cutter, (optional) mayonnaise & mustard
Use the cookie-cutter on the tortilla, turkey and cheese. Put mayonnaise or mustard in between each layer then stack the cheese and turkey on top of the tortilla. Roll the teddy up from head to toe - Voila! A perfect goodnight treat! Make this at home…
Or you can enjoy this entertaining treat for “Teddy Bear Adventures” week at Bellaboo’s, Sept. 20th -26th.
Bellaboo’s Challenge – JUST WING IT!
Here's one of my favorite games
Flashlight Fun
Hey, kids! Bellaboo Bat here and I have a great idea about a fun game you can play with your friends or parents this month. Flashlight Tag and Flashlight Fun!
Soon it will be getting dark early and I can’t think of a better way to tire out the children than with this proven favorite game – Flashlight tag! Don’t wait until it gets too dark and make sure you are playing on safe terrain with a fenced in yard – it’s important to make sure YOU know where every child is – even if they don’t want you to find them. The game is simple – everyone gets a flashlight, try and shine the flashlight on each others feet without getting shined yourself. If you do get “shined” then it’s time to head to base and count to 10 – then you can rejoin the game. If you would like to play with a group of kids in a safe environment – COME TO BELLABOO’S ON A FRIDAY NIGHT in OCTOBER - Bring your own flashlight and have an ENTIRE EVENING OF FLASHLIGHT FUN!
“Pencil-Pots for Teachers”
First, make your flowers! You’ll need 3 or 4 different colored squares of tissue paper (4” x 4”) and layer them one top of the other then accordion fold (parents will need to help with this part!) Twist a pipe cleaner in the center of the tissue paper then fan open the paper and fluff your flower. Make 4 or 5. Take the bottom of the pipe cleaner and wrap it around a pencil – 4 or 5 makes the pot look lovely!
Next, make your flower pot! Save a tin can. Wrap it up with construction paper. Stuff the can with green tissue paper. Add pencil flowers. Give it to your teacher and have a wonderful school year!
"A Recycled Night Scene"
Make a cotton-ball moon with paper-towel stars (feel free to color the paper-towel stars yellow then cut them out!) and add a cupcake-liner spaceship for some night time fun! (Don’t forget to decorate your spaceship!) Add yarn streams to some stars so they can shoot – feel free to use any fun thing you can find.
Natural Wonders Experiment - Skin Safe Fun for Everyone
Explore the effects of natural sunlight.
How to begin: Have your little ones collect objects which have interesting shapes like flowers, twigs, yarn, and/or pinecones. Next have the children place these items on top of a colorful piece of construction paper.
Set the construction paper in direct sunlight for a few (3-4) days. Make sure not to move the items from their resting spot. On the fourth day, have the children remove their objects from the paper. The children will see the outline of their object. This is the effect of solar power. Our sun is so powerful it faded the colors with its bright light. The shade created by the object onto the paper protected the paper from the direct sun, keeping the color of the paper untouched by the sun and providing the children with bright shapes on a dull piece of paper. Have fun decorating your Natural Wonder!
