Category: Pin for the Wednesdays

Well hello there Wednesday friends! I’ve decided to link up to Pin for the Wednesdays at its new home, Daily Ups and Pounds AGAIN today. Mostly because I’m soooo pleased with myself and my pinteresty-ness this week.

Over the weekend I started looking in earnest for activities to do with Jonah. Preferably those that don’t involve TV or a screen of any kind, and can be done with things I already have laying around the house. Fortunately, Pinterest did not let me down! I didn’t replicate any idea exactly, but I got most of my pinspiration from these two pins here and here.

Here’s what Jonah and I have been up to this week! Making messes and having FUN! And hopefully learning something. 🙂

This one’s kind of hard to see in the picture, but what I did here was just give him a bunch of small colored pom poms and have him put them in an empty spice jar. He loved it and it kept him busy for  over 30 minutes! We talked about the colors of the pom poms, too. He can say blue, green, red, and orange. This activity is also good for fine motor skills.

Next, we got out something most everyone has laying around, a kitchen colander. First, I had him poke pipe cleaners through the slats in it, but he didn’t like that. Then I got the bright idea of using popsicle sticks, and he loooooved this one. I strapped him into the booster seat for this activity and he did it for-EV-er. Over an hour! He was excited to try it the next day, too.

Finally, we made a big fun mess with a sensory bin. For this activity I just took a 9 x 13 pan and filled it with rice, rotini, spaghetti, feathers, and pom poms. He had fun messing around with all the things in the bin and eventually started taking stuff out of it, so I got him another dish and he started putting stuff into that dish. He went back and forth like that for awhile and made a big mess! It was fun and easy to clean up with the hose on our vacuum.

Well, those are my winning pins for today! Please leave me a comment telling me what a fabulous mother I am. Oh, and don’t forget to check out all the winning pins and link up over at Daily Ups and Pounds!

Happy Wednesday! Although Emily and I killed & buried Pin for the Wednesdays a couple weeks ago, my friend Tess of Daily Ups & Pounds, a loyal Pin for the Winner (and my PERSONAL FRIEND), decided to resurrect it. YAY! SO if you were a #PinFTW fan, you can head on over to her blog every Wednesday to see what people are pinning and winning with! Sometimes (like today, for instance) Emily and I will be playing along, too!

Today I offer up to you one of the first pins I EVER pinned, months and months ago but never actually tried until last week.  And it. Was. WORTH THE WAIT!  It was fantastic!  Here is the original pin:

I am a chocolate milk addict. I have a glass of milk made with Hershey’s every morning before my coffee. My big kids do the same (no coffee for them) so we go through syrup pretty fast.  The other night we were out and instead of running to the store really late, I decided to finally try this pin.  It was awesome! SO easy and fast: the recipe calls for only baking cocoa, white sugar, salt, and water. And it tasted amazing! I only had Nestle cocoa, and it was really good, but last night I bought Hershey’s cocoa to see how close I can get it to the original.  Now we can have home made chocolate syrup in our milk that’s slightly more healthy than the store bought kind! And, I imagine, much less expensive!

All right, that’s my winning pin! Can’t wait to see yours! Head over to Daily Ups & Pounds to link up!

After seven months, Jenny and I have decided to lay Pin for the Wednesdays to rest. We’ve had fun with it and we’ve really enjoyed seeing the winning pins that have been shared, but it’s becoming a chore for us to keep up with and – let’s face it – it hasn’t really caught on like wildfire. We’re still active on Pinterest and odds are we’ll post about it from time to time, and if you post winning pins on your blog, let us know – we’ll pimp out your post! I’ll also put up a linky here in case any of you have a post ready this week.

Thanks to all of you who have played along over the months, and all the rest of you who have put up with our nonsense. xoxo