Fun things to do at the doctors office.

Ya I'm one of those moms. When we have to wait at anytime I take it as a chance for a new expierence so I've compiled a small list of fun things we do when we have to wait in the dr. Office.

Waiting room.
1. There's always a movie
2. There's always lollipops well take a stack of cards with you grab a few lollipops like the amount of kids you have. Nothing crazy and play spoons the card game with the lollipops.
(Spoons is where you take a stack of cards give each member 4 hold the stack and slowly go through the stack picking the cards you want to replace your cards with and passing the remaining to the next player, first person to get 4 grabs a lollipop and then everyone grabs as fast as possible. Each round subtract a lollipop when a player gets out they can have theirs)
3. Go through the magazines and play I spy. Depending on the age of your kids you can make it easy or hard. Aka
I spy a baby wearing pink, I spy something pink, I spy a letter a, or I spy something that starts with the letter b.
4. Read a book.
5. Ask the nurses for coloring pictures and crayons. Most pediatrics centers have these. To make time take longer number or add a small color to each area and challenge the child to put the proper color in the proper area.
6. Name art. On the back of the paper put your child's name in bubble or block letters make funky designs in each letter and go crazy.

By this time hopefully you've made it into a room.
1. Our Favorite thing to do is to use the disposable dr. Tools to play doctor.
2. Make glove animals.  These entertains for a while!
3. Read a book.
4. Our doctor office usually has a mural of some type in the room so we usually take a minute and ask questions. 
What's your favorite thing about this?
What kind of things do you see?
Where would you usually see this?
...etc tell me about the picture. 
5. Draw on the bed sheet. Lol yes i said it. I usually have a highlighter or a pen and we Decorate the paper bed sheet to surprise the doctor.
6. Try using paper pamphlets that are in there to fold into airplanes..etc
7. Sometimes my daughter takes a stuffed animal and we use disposable dr. Tools to play dr. On it.
8. Try to play a floor game on the tiles.
Can you step on every tile and tell me how many they are. Can you step on every other tile? Can you walk on them criss cross? Diagonal? 

Hopefully when your done, you've made it a fun expierence for your kids and since they won't do it everyday it should be fun. As well as helped with the wait times expierenced.

Shred chicken the easy way.

So I ran across this hand mixer shredded chicken decided to test it out. Works perfect.

Cook you boneless skinless chicken
(i boiled mine)
Use hand mixer on high speed to shred chicken after you drain broth.

It was so simple, and so fast. I couldn't believe it. I love this technique.  I use to put mine in food processor or blender but it would leave me more mess to clean. So I'm now on board. BRING ON THE ENCHILADAS! 

Healthy banana ice cream

I USE 4 BANANAS
Approx. 1 c. Of water
Blender
Additional toppings

Cut and freeze 4 bananas
Put frozen bananas in blend on ice cycle. Blend till creamy adding bits of water until you get the ice cream texture. I usually stop every few minutes and push down with a spoon. Once bananas are broken up I put on high speed for approx 1 min. And serve. :)

You can also add a hint of cocoa, nuts, strawberries...etc in or to top the ice cream.

Perfectly healthy salsa

2 cans rotel
1 avocado
Blender

Simply pour 2 cans of rotel including juices in to blender. Blend on high for approx 1-2 mins. Cut avocado and add to blender. Blend on low for approx 30 sec.

24 day challenge fruit slushie

If your like me you probably struggle to get fruit any where in your diet. Well meet my amazing 24 day challenge fruit slushie. Are you ready! It's sooo simple

Cup of ice.
Cup of water blend
Add your daily amount of fruit. Blend
Tada! It's so yummy though!! Mines strawberry grape!

Turkey meat loaf. 24 day challenge style

Turkey meatloaf
What you need:
1 lb of turkey
1 med. Onion
1-2 8oz cans of tomatoe sauce
(When looking for tomatoe sauce you can look for the one that has the least amt. Of sugar and sodium or you can blend up some boiled tomatoes in the blender.)
1 tbs extra olive oil
As little celery salt as you can use to flavor
Ground black pepper
Dash of  Worcestershire sauce
1 large egg beaten
Garlic

1. Start with boiling chicken to get your broth. Remove chicken, remove foam from top. Reserve the rest of the chickens broth for soup by freezing.
2. In a frying pan add olive oil, onion, pepper, salt, garlic, and any Italian herbs. Depending on flavor your looking for. I use a mixture of Italian herbs. Cook till onions are translucent. 
3. Add 1 tbs Tomato sauce. And a splash of Worcestershire. Mix with onion mixture set aside. Allow to cool.
4. Mix ground turkey, onion mixture, and egg. Mix
5. Oil a pan put mixture in.
6. In a small bowl mix remaining tomatoe sauce, Italian herbs, garlic, a splash of Worcestershire and top on meat mixture.
6. Cook at 325 for about 1 1/2 hrs.

Burrito salad

Needs:
Black beans
Rice
Mix spring greens
Chicken
Avocado

In a pot mash and cook a can of black beans including a little of canned juice.

Cook rice and chicken.

In a bowl add 2 c. Salad greens 1/4 c mixture of beans and rice. 1/4 avocado.  Diced chicken and mix and enjoy!
I used no seasons to cut back a little more. :)

Asparagus and eggs

What You need:

1 tbs olive oil

1 cup fresh chopped asparagus

2 eggs

dash of celery salt

Handful of onions 

Step 1: add olive oil and onions let onions golden, then add asparagus until a beautiful bright green. 

Step 2: add eggs with a dash of celery salt. 

Healthy taco salad

What you need: 

Ground turkey 1 lb aka 16 oz

Taco season packet

Spring greens

Avocado

can of rotel

serves 2 approx. 2 people

step 1: brown turkey meat add half taco pack and 1/3 c of water allow to simmer.

Step 2: In a blender blend one can of rotel

Step 3: add half of an avocado and blend for 1 second or so the avocado is still a little chunky.  I also added a bit of lemon juice your choice.

Step 4: add 2 c. Of salad to bowl half of ground turkey or 6 oz. and salsa and mix. Done. 

Cotton ball easter bunny.

What you need
White, pink, brown construction paper or paper plate.
Glue
About 12 cotton balls
Marker
Marshmellow
Heart gummy optional.
Googly eyes.

Cut a head from paper into a circle or use paper plate. Use brown white and pink construction paper to make ears. Cut in leaf shape. Glue together putting pink on ears and then glue ears on back. Draw your face. Cover with glue stretch out cotton balls or let kids stretch them and place on glue. Afterwards add a gummy nose and Marshmellow feet with glue. Then glue googly eyes. Done!

Life hack toothpaste

My hubby was so sick of taking cap on and off of his new toothpaste.  So he simply got his old tooth paste and replaced the cap with the new one so now he can just snap it open.

Vegan sliders yummy!

Found this on you tube over a year ago. Its healthy and addicting. 

 You need:

1 can chick peas
1/4-1/2 red onion
 Approx. 1 cup Garabanzo flour
2 garlic cloves
Sun dried tomatoes (optional)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp ground coriander

Handful of fresh parsley

2 tbs. Olive oil

Food processor
Pan

Add chick peas, red onion, garabanzo flour, garlic cloves,  tomatoes, salr, cumin, coriander and process. Use spatula to remove from edges add parsley and process again. Pour in bowl form patties. Get your pan add approx 2 tbs of olive oil. Pan fry and wahla! Yummy yummy in my tummy. 

**pan fry until light to dark brown each side depending on your prefrence. Feel free to add your own guac. 

**if your pan becomes to dry add more olive oil.

What to do with all those plastic eggs!

Put rhyming words on your eggs. One on top one on bottom kids should put them together and say the words. What a great way to teach rhyming!!

Tech your kids their upper and lower case letters.

Make next year's wreath. You can buy a cheap wreath from dollar store hot glue on grass and eggs with and cute bow!!

Teach your kids math! Answers on bottom and questions on top.

Put in egg carton and have your kids practice counting also slip the proper number of beans inside. 

Make thrifty musical instruments. Fill with beans or rice for shakers. Hot glue add spoons hot glue and wrap with duct tape. 

Why not use the eggs to carry your kids snacks. Who needs sand which bags when you got plastic eggs. 

 Make this cute caterpillar. Use all tops or all bottoms wire a peice of string through hot glue on the head and some cute eyes. Quick and easy toy!

Use eggs to teach your child re n their opposites

Add a small glows tick or glow bracelet and your ready for a party

String them up for your next party!

Use foam to make cute characters for next spring or to play.

Let kids paint stick in cupcake cups and ley kids make little cupcakes for their play kitchens

If your like me you love making things wi th your kids. So next time you make moonsand, playdough or anything that needs to be contained use your plastic eggs.

Use for jello molds. Or jello shots :)

Use for decorating for next easter. I personally use basket grass instead of the twine your choice.

 Use several plastic cups, band them together and see how many points your kid can score.

Backwards jenga with eggs! What yes we did this last year. See how high you can stack them without making them fall! 

Put all you eggs in a pool during the summer add a penny to 1 per child and let them dive under and find the penny. Of course let them sink first. They have holes if you hold them under they will sink, if your too impatient cracked em open let them fill and then close and drop them.

Hope you have fun!! If any of you mom's have any other thrifty ideas put them in the comments!!

Easter projects you've seen and do they work?

Do these easter projects work as well as them seem? Are they truely as easy as they say.

Of course this works you. just need steady hands and feet. My only suggestion is to use a peice only f paper and frame it rather than a canvas as it is much cheaper and last likely to get damaged through the years. 

OIL THE Balloon Before hand!!! Don't use so much glue. This can be tricky to get the proper mixture. Allow to dry completely. 

Ever dyed eggs? The come out like this every time. My family uses the died eggs for deviled eggs every year so we can have a colorful easter appetizer.

Super simple. I prefer to use basket grass it actually looks much better.

Haven't tried this yet. It's on my to do list. Anyone have you tried?

Did this for our last easter party super cute flare.

Super cute idea works better with cotton balls. The Marshmellows don't glue so well. They can become melty.

The carrots are easy to do with construction paper and staples. Don't worry about putting crinkles looks just as good flat. 

Hanging eggs it's very cute works well use a thicker thread. No yarn or thin thread. I also popped treats inside when I did this for the kids. Like a  easter piñata. Lol.

Did this last year. I love easter! I love every holiday but can't stand all the candy given to my child. I printed out cute cards made on computer that gave my daughter special premissions. Cut back on the candy. Another idea is to fill eggs with party favors. Like small trucks, spin tops, whistles, nail polish, lip gloss and so on. 

Not great. Honestly doesn't come out like it should maybe you can get it to work. But I just couldn't for any reason!!! So frustrating. 

This is a cute idea for decor. Just remember if your going to do it. It's tedious so patience is key.

I'm so trying this. You can make these and paint them as cute porch decor. 

Cute. I've done it. Pretty simple cut a rabbit out from car board or paper glue picture and add cotton balls. How complicated right!?

This is a personal add of mine. I found these cute little moss bunnies at the dollar store 3 a pack for a $1.00 bought 1 fake arrangments of flowers. Cut off flowers, poked hole through rabbits and added to my home made flower balls to flair for easter. 

I this does work. And works rather well. The trick if your having a hard time is to put the egg of surface you want to release laying down or touching. Instead of trying to get the egg out the way way through the bottom. Simply spread two of the wise bars at or near the top and and it should open at bottom releasing. The cheaper the wisk the better! Don't use a heavy wisk or you could have a harder time getting it out. If you open through top you'll have dye free hands :) practice with a raw egg first so you'll be gentle. 

Anything else you guys want me to try for easter send asap!