Place it in a Cooler!

If you are just going on a day trip or even just planning for a crazy busy day then stuff a cooler in the back of your car and fill it with some healthy options.

• Water & Mio - One of the most important things you can make sure you have with you whenever you go out is water. So throw some water bottles in the cooler or even just stash your Mio into your purse for when you go to a restaurant.
• Cheese – This could be Laughing Cow, string cheese or just cheese you have cut and bagged up in single servings.
• Boiled Eggs – High in protein and easy to transport! Toss a few in your cooler to eat as a snack or as a simple lunch. Want to make a dozen eggs fast try your oven!

Source: theburlapbag.com via Pepper on Pinterest

•  Apple Slices & Almond Butter Snack Packs - If you don’t want to pay the extra for apple slices that have been treated to stop them from turning brown try this fun trick:

Source: thekitchn.com via Laura on Pinterest

• Celery & Laughing Cow - Wash your celery, add a little salt and then spread the Laughing Cow cheese on. Or bag up the celery and spread on the cheese when it’s time to eat. Don’t forget to throw a plastic knife in the bag for spreading the cheese.

No Cooler Needed!

• PB2 Thins Peanut Butter Crackers - Okay I haven’t tried these but I have them on order! So excited to try these crunchy high protein snacks!
• Single Serving Almond Packs - Nuts are packed with protein and healthy fat. As long as you eat them one serving at a time they are a great snack to have on hand.
• Microwavable Popcorn Snack Bags - Pop up some popcorn and bag it up into single servings. Or just buy the single serving pop up bags. Make some fun flavors by sprinkling with unsweetened cocoa, cinnamon, garlic salt, paprika, thyme, Italian seasoning, True Lime, or cayenne pepper.
• Dry Roasted Edamame Packs - Dry roasted edamame is another great snack to just have packed in your car or purse for an emergency. But also great for when you are on a trip.

Things Besides Food!

• Pedometer or Fitbit Tracker - Take your pedometer to make sure you are staying active.
• Your Phone & Your Healthy Apps – Even with your healthy snacks packed you will still want to track what you are eating and get in some extra activity. That’s when you can use your handy dandy smart phone to be your personal health buddy.

 What is something that you carry with you at all times for snack emergencies?

Do you pack ahead for your trips?

This is a very quick and easy breakfast or lunch that is filled with healthy protein. You can make it with other vegetables that you have available or need to use up, but the asparagus is so yummy!

Easy Grilled Asparagus Frittata

Ingredients

• 5-8 Stalks asparagus
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• Cooking Spray olive oil
• Salt & Pepper to taste

Directions

• Preheat broiler, make sure shelf is in top slot
• Spray oven safe skillet with olive oil cooking spray
• Grill asparagus for 4 minutes or until turn bright green

• While grilling asparagus mix eggs and parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste
• Flatten asparagus in pan and pour egg mixture over

• Cook for about 2-3 minutes or until egg starts to set
• Take pan and place on top rack in broiler
• Broil till brown on top and cooked through, about 2-3 minutes

View recipe on Plan To Eat

I was torn this week, did I want to do eggs or elephants. I decided to go with eggs because there were so many great egg crafts but no elephant crafts. If you know any good elephant crafts please send them my way for the next time we do E.

If you are new to A Craft a Day

A Craft a Day gives you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week.  Most of these activities work well for preschoolers, but you may be able to adapt them for your toddler. If you want to learn more about the basics of A Craft A Day you can find them at a Craft a Day: Coming Back Soon. I will post the crafts on Saturdays so you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need. We are making our way through the alphabet this year so if you missed a you can find it here.

Are you Supermom?

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either. We don’t always get to each activity, sometimes life is just too busy. Hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one. You don’t have to be doing preschool with your child. I just hope to give you a resource for some great fun with your kids!

The Crafts:

• Chickie Eggs – These were cute and almost too easy. Zane loved putting them together I don’t know how his ended up with a frowny face but it was pretty funny. (Make sure and keep the shells for the other projects.)



• Earth Mosaics – This was a great project for bible day. The boys colored pictures in the morning and we talked about how God made the heavens and the earth. Then in the afternoon we made our earth project. This is definitely a keepsake project.



• More Mosaics – You can do this project in addition to the Earth Mosaic project or if you don’t have or want to deal with clay you do this project instead.
• Egg Geodes – We tried this science experiment but for us it failed. If you have any luck getting the crystals to grow please let me know!!
• Egg Planters – We had some extra grass seed in our garage and I hope the grass will grow in time for the letter G! Or maybe I hope to keep the grass alive for the letter G.

Supplies: eggs, carrots, black sesame seeds or food markers or sprinkles, clay, egg shells, food color, vinegar, Elmer’s Glue, alum, paint brush, glass or plastic container, hot water, grass seed, potting soil, paint

Be Featured

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog  on the following weeks post!

I love doing mosaics! The best things about mosaics are they don’t have to be perfect and they can be made into anything!

I wanted to do a Bible based craft project for the letter E, but there are not very many things that work for the letter E.

After looking online for a while I found my options were Eagles (but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; …  Isaiah 40:31) or Earth (“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”  Genesis 1:1).

I chose Earth because we have done Eagles before and the craft options are kind of boring. Earth really didn’t have too many options, so I made our own. I had already found lots of crafts using egg shells and I had some old Fimo clay to use up! We made Earth mosaics from eggshells and Fimo.

Supplies:

• Eggshells
• Food Coloring
• Vinegar
• Clay or Fimo

Step 1: Dye the peeled shells in food dye, 1 cup water, and a tablespoon of vinegar. Make sure and pull them out and dry them before the project.

Step 2: Cut circles out of clay (Find a large glass or round bowl to use as a cookie cutter.

Step 3: Now the fun part push the pieces of shell into the clay.

Even little hands can do this project!

Press it in pretty firmly!

Step 4: Dry your clay according to the directions. Mine needed to be baked.

Step 5: Brush off any extra shell that didn’t stick. Now you have a lovely mosaic Earth.

Step 5: (Optional) This is a wonderful keepsake craft. I flipped ours over and wrote the boys names on them and the date.

I hope you enjoyed this craft. I know my boys did and I’m sure your little ones will too!

One of my favorite techniques to create great easter eggs is using tape. You can use scotch tape, packing tape, painters tape, etc.  I wouldn’t recommend double sided tape, I know from experience. LOL

Supplies:

• Tape
• Hard boiled eggs
• Egg Dye (we used Paas tablets they are just so easy)

Directions:

Tape your egg (I used packing tape)

Drop your egg into the dye

Take out of the dye after 10-15 minutes

Take the tape off very carefully

Dump into a new color or you can do this before taping to get a different effect or you can leave it with the white.

Finished Egg

You will get different effect with different kinds of tape, how much you smooth out the bumps or not, how many times you change out the tape, if you cover the egg completely in tape or in stripes, and/or change colors and how long you leave it in the dyes.

Here are my left overs from my dyeing. I have great plans for even my paper towels and my shells:

I’m going to save the eggshells as we make egg salad sandwiches (yummy!) in a baggy and make this craft: Eggshell Pictures from Make and Takes

I’m going to modify this craft and use my dyed paper towels and use up my dye creating “paper towel” butterflies.

Today we got to do our traditional egg dying! I was very happy we were able to do it this year, since for some reason I’m working full time this week and I’m trying to catch up from being sick. It was fun to have some family time even if it was a little stressful to pull everything together quickly.

This year Zane was very into the egg dying. Last year I dyed them for him and he got to put stickers on them. This year he got to pick the eggs colors and loved watching Daddy drop them in the colors. Zarek just sat back and watched. We had a snack while we watched the eggs soak. Zarek loved the snack. LOL

I let Zarek look at an egg before it was dyed, for a photo more than anything. He picked it up and threw it to the ground. That’s what he thought of that. I gave him the memory game from the Paas pack and he liked playing with the small pieces of cardboard for a little while. I didn’t get any photos of him with the dyed eggs since he decided he wanted to go take a nap before they were dry.

Zane got to put stickers on the eggs again this year and loved it. He liked it so much that when he found a plastic egg in the house with foam stickers he stuck the stickers all over the egg. He did a really good job all on his own.

Tomorrow I will show you my favorite egg dying technique. Or if you check out my flickr feed you can get the basic idea.