Toilet Butterflies

A quick, no fuss craft activity
What you need:

• An empty toilet roll - I sprayed them with Glen20, but I'm anal like that.
• Some scrapboking backing card (That I had lying around, because now that I have something to scrapbook about, I don't have the time), cut into some semblance of butterfly wings
• Pipe cleaners
• Glue or sticky tape
• Something to decorate them with - We used felt tip pens but you could use glitter glue, cut up magazines or old wrapping paper, or paint.

Decorate
Pop a hole in the back of the toilet rolls and thread the pipe cleaner feelers through
Glue or sticky tape the wings on
Have fun!

My Experience With Cake Mix Cookies

I discovered this idea over at Frill In The Hills.

Feel like some some cookies but can't be bothered making them from scratch. Or maybe your missing the flour? Do you have a packet cake mix on hand.

Cookies made with packet cake mix! They stay a lovely moist, doughy consistency on the inside.

I used a Betty Crocker strawberry cake mix today.

It's just 1 packet of cake mix
2 eggs
125g softened butter
and enough plain flour to make a sticky but firm dough (add milk if you add too much flour, I used 1/2 cup for this packet mix)

Mix, roll into balls and bake on grease proof paper at 180°C for 10-15mins

This is the same way I made the dinosaur footprint cookies for Eva-saurus' Messy Dinosaur Luau

When they had just come out of the oven I pressed one of the VIPs' dinosaur toy's foot into the top of the biscuit. (This cake mix was Greens Moist Chocolate Cake)

How To: Dinosaur Fossils

The idea for the dinosaur fossils at Eva's birthday party I picked up of Pinterest (I love that place).

What you'll need:
Small plastic or rubber dinosaurs - How ever many you want.
I bought a tube of 36 dinosaurs for $2.50 from Kmart

1 1/4 cup of dirt
1 1/4 cup of flour
3/4 cup of salt
1/2 sand
Water
A bucket to mix it all in

This mixure will make up about 8-10 dinosaur fossils, depending on the size of your dinosaurs
You need enough water to make it a clay like consistency.

Mix all ingredients
Mold the mixture around your dinosaurs
Allow to dry.
I placed them on some newspaper outside and they still took almost a week to dry completely. I kept flipping them because the moisture would gather underneath the fossils.

 Then it's just a matter of hiding them, sending out a search party and once found, tapping them with a hammer to make them crumble apart.

They were such a hit that I've been trying to think of ways of interpreting them into other party themes and, as the original source suggests, they would be a fun activity to do with your preschooler 'just because'.