Bug Day

The other day, Mr. C had a friend over and instead of letting them run around, play with toys and watch a movie (which they did too), I wanted to do something a little more involved.

I decided to do a BUG THEME!  We sang a song about bees, talked about all the different types of bugs, made a craft and made a treat!  I don’t own the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but I would’ve read that too if I had had it.  (It was too hot to go on a bug hunt.)

 I think the boys would’ve been happy painting all day if we weren’t going to run out of paint.  I found some Crayola brand washable paint that I love!  That is what I usually use when doing any hand print crafts and it washes up like a dream!

 For our treat I knew I wanted to make cupcakes that looked like they had dirt on them and had worms coming out.  I had the kids crush up their own bag of oreos and sprinkle them on their cupcakes.  They loved that part and Mr. C couldn’t wait to try his “dirt”.  They each got 2 worms to put on top of their cupcakes.

Well the night before “bug day”, I had made some green beans with dinner and instead of throwing the cans away, I put them in the dishwasher.  I decided to make cakes in the tin cans.  I’ve never done it before and it was SO easy.

I sprayed the insides of the cans with non stick spray, made my cake mix and filled them about 2/3 of the way full, cooked them the same time as the cupcakes (about 20 minutes) and they were done!  I let them cool and then let Mr. C decorate them with tape.  I frosted the tops, covered them with crushed oreos, poked a couple holes for the worms to go into.  It was that easy!

Here is where I’m linking up this week:

Mommy by day Crafter by night

Tatertots & Jello

Lil Luna

Somewhat Simple

Simply Sweet Home

I Heart Naptime

Craftionary

A to Zebra Celebrations

Lolly Jane

Oopsey Daisy

Reasons to skip the Housework