Mummy Knows Reviews

Here is another fun Halloween project the kids and I did. It took 3 simple things: Cookies, orange frosting and Kisses! I kept it simple I did not make orange frosting I just bought pre-orange frosting and cookies that where on sale!

We did something like this a year ago and Aiden loved it so we had to do it again. This time we got premade pizza crust, pizza sauce, black olives and pizza cheese. It really was not that hard. I let Aiden put the sauce on. Then I tired to do a web with the cheese. It would have been better if you/I used string cheese but I wanted cheese everywhere. Then you cut the olives in half for the spiders body. And for the legs I just cut 3-4 slices from the half for the legs! Then pop that sucker in the oven for 10 minutes and your done!

Its October and I have been trying to work on doing Halloween projects with my kids. So I saw this one on pinterest and it came out kinda fail for me. All you do is use pancake mix. Follow what it says to make it. Then you put it in the pan and add a little "leg" here and there. This gives it the look of a ghost. Then you add some chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth. Then you should be able to flip it when ready. However that is when I realized they chocolate was melting and left a hole where his eyes and mouth should be. Here is how mine turned out. Kids did not seam to care they liked it anyhow. This is a simple easy breakfast that kids will love to eat.

This is Chris, he is two and a half. He may look like any other toddler but he has some special medical needs. On top of being autistic, he has a GI disorder called congenital sucrase isomaltase deficiency ( CSID ) yes it's a mouth full. What it means is his body does not make the enzyme to process sugar or starch. It's like he is allergic to sugar and starch. He gets very ill if he eats anything with sugar in it. That include natural foods with too much sugar. Poor kid can't even eat a carrot. Because of this disorder we have to make most of his snacks at home. Because its almost impossible to find a ready made snack he can have. If we do find a snack its not always organic or non gmo, we try to keep him on as healthy of a diet as we can because it helps his stomach and reduces meltdowns. (we suspect the meltdowns are because he doesn't feel well and is unable to tell us)

I love making home made gifts. You can personalize them and make them unique. I like having the supplies on hand so if I need a gift fast I can whip one up. (no pun intended, well maybe a little) Last Christmas I made bath bombs and bath salts, so this year I wanted to do something different. I have never used shea butter before so I wanted to get an early start in coming up with the the perfect recipe for this years Christmas gift. Whipped Shea Butter is my favorite way to moisturize my feet. I love how soft it makes them feel, I rub some on before bed and pop on a pair of socks. It has kept my feet lovely and soft all summer. But buying it in the store is so expensive. or the quality is nothing to rave about. So I grabbed a bag of BioFinest Premium Raw Unrefined Shea Butter  whipped up my own batch of whipped shea butter.

With the 4th of July coming up in a week I thought it would be fun to make some things I found on Pinterest. I found this one from  http://blog.pbteen.com . So I found some stuff to make it easier, but when it was all done.... it was not as big as I wanted so I am going to give them to my nieces. (I will post pics on the 4th.)

Here is yet another great and easy thing to do this weekend to get ready for the 4th of July. Oh and I got everything I needed at Walmart!  This is a cute fun one that kids of any age can do. This is one my little 4 month old Noah did. Here is what you are going to need. White shirts that will fit you or whoever its going to be for. Red and Blue fabric paint. And a card board box.

This one is simple and easy, all you need is pineapple, oranges and whip cream. I used can pineapples and mandarin oranges. 

OK I know I have not posted anything for Halloween the last few days and here is why.... We had to pay our morage so I did not have a lot left over to buy stuff, and two my car tags are expored so I can't drive to go get stuff. However on Thurday that will change. But we did make some other kinds of witches brooms. All I did was use the left over prezzles and cheese sticks. 

OK so I did not make the dough or the sause. But it still truned out great! I bought a pizza dough, molded it into small kid size pizza. Then added the pizza sause, and used the string cheese and black olives. Cut or peal the string cheese into strips, the cut the olives in half and then cut one of the halfs into legs. Not to hard and kids love pizza!

Here is another easy fun Halloween treat for you and your kids. Witches Brooms and all you need is pretezles and resses peanutbutter cups. However out of the 4 we made two of the cups broke. And because I bought pretezles I really only needed to buy the Resses cups.

Day 2 of Halloween month. Today the boys and I did some finger painting. Well kind of. See Aiden does not like to get his hands messy so he kinda was mad making it. So for this one you will need paper, and finger paint. If you have little one that you are worried they might try to eat the paint. Then look for some that are non toxic. Here is Aiden