tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62727028574705350312024-02-19T23:38:08.366-08:00Handmade HousewifeThe writings of a Housewife who likes to do everything by hand!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272702857470535031.post-79397882111839795132018-09-26T21:48:00.000-07:002018-09-26T21:51:38.898-07:00Handmade Carnival GamesI was in charge of the elementary school's Halloween Carnival for a few years and my husband and I created some games! Now that I don't have elementary kids, I'm having to find other places to use these.<br />
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Q did all the woodworking for each of the games after we finalized a design. Then he'd pass the bones on for me to paint. The favorite game has got to be life sized Operation because of the extra electronics. Q did all the inner workings and even computer programming to make the game actually light up and play. There are winning and losing sounds and the thermometer bubble lights up different colors. Seriously cool.<br />
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Life Sized Operation: Player presses the digital pad to begin and it shuffles through all the pieces and chooses one. Player must then use the tongs to pick up that piece before the timer runs out.<br />
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Hamster Hazards: electronic hamsters roll around in balls and last not in a hazard hole wins. 9 can play at once.<br />
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String Pull: Pull two front strings and hope for matching color pawns to raise.</div>
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Spin N Win: Big standing wheel you spin for number prizes.</div>
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Balloon Blaster: Like a dart game, but instead throw bean bags at the balloons. Balloons will be pushed back against a nail and pop.<br />
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Fish Bowl Toss: Try to toss ping pong balls into fish bowls.<br />
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Color Wheel: For up to 8 players. Place your number disk on a color square. Spin the wheel and hope it lands on your color.</div>
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Splat the Rat: Player stands near the bottom with the paddle. Host releases a rat from the top of the pipe. Player tries to hit the rat once it comes out the bottom.<br />
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Cupcake Walk: Players walk around from board to board as music plays. When music stops a number is called and that player wins a treat.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272702857470535031.post-87640178696265262302018-06-15T10:23:00.000-07:002018-06-15T13:13:46.985-07:00Marshmallow CakeMy 12 year old Slytherin girl is an exceptionally picky eater. She won't really eat cake, won't eat ice cream unless it is homemade vanilla. She lives on bread and cereal. I actually had to say yesterday, "No, you can't make brownies, you didn't eat dinner. You only ate twelve rolls for lunch!" and then laughed for five minutes when I realized what I said. That story being said, she wouldn't want cake and ice cream for her birthday party. For her last bday party I made her a giant Reece's Peanut Butter Cup which she adored. This year her friend party is a bonfire with smores. She made a side comment, "I want a candle on a marshmallow. That can be my birthday cake." But that stuck with me and I saw in my head this whole round marshmallow tier for a cake. Then as I was developing it in my head I decided it needed a graham base and chocolate layer. Thus, Marshmallow Cake was born!<br />
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No pic of the graham layer, but here's the ganache. I used three small spring form pans. One larger for her cake and a taster for me. Then there was still enough graham leftover for another tester.</div>
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My food torch ran out of fuel before a full toasted effect could take, but here's cut through. Family said it needed more chocolate. I can do it that way next time, but I was going for Marshmallow Cake, not necessarily Smore's Cake this time.</div>
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water, 1 cup corn syrup, and ¼ tsp salt. Bring to a boil at medium to
medium high, stirring. When boiling, place saucepan lid on top for two
minutes to let condensation wash down the sides. Remove lid after two
minutes and clip in candy thermometer. Allow to reach 240* without
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syrup into softened gelatin. Gradually increase speed to high, beating
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272702857470535031.post-44466660667606005942018-05-20T21:56:00.000-07:002018-05-21T10:03:39.075-07:00Teacher Appreciation Week - Harry Potter Theme!I got put in charge of our PTA's teacher appreciation week for our middle school. I knew I wanted to make chocolate frogs for the teachers, so I suggested a book week theme with treats from different books. But the president goes "chocolate frogs only one day?! Why not a whole Harry Potter week??" That was all the convincing I needed. The whole family of mine are quite HP fanatics, and with a whole basement of HP memorabilia I figured a week would be a cinch.<br />
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Thus HP Teacher Appreciation Week was born. Now because it was HP I went more into it than I think I would have and the teachers ab..so...lute...ly LOVED it. I had soooo many comments about how exited the teachers were to come in to see the new products and get a treat. I even had a few suggest this should be next years theme as well. ....with all the praise I felt like I should have done more than just hang a few banners! They really needed the pick me up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You have to imagine the chocolate frogs on the plate LOL. All 100 were gone FAST! Putting the green foil on the chocolates took forever, but well worth the final look.</td></tr>
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Last year it was a Starry Night theme! All hand painted.</div>
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When my teen was younger this was her Valentine's box for years. </div>
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Harry Potter Monster Book of Monsters Valentines Box!</div>
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It's seriously too easy. </div>
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We got an old cereal box and cut the front three edges so it opened like the monster book.</div>
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Hot glued fun fur over the outer walls. We did just one piece from top to bottom.</div>
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Cut a tongue and teeth from felt and hot glue on.</div>
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Hot glue google eyes.</div>
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For the "paper edges" for the book, I measured the box edges and cut cardstock to fit.</div>
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I used a ruler and pen and just did as many straight lines as I could fit, to show the pages.</div>
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Hot glued on the cereal box sides.</div>
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Made a little tag that said whose Valentine's Box it was and glued it to the spine.</div>
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Just being a cereal box it lasted quite a while with girl taking so good care of it!</div>
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care of magical creatures!</div>
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Hides golden snitch Valentines! </div>
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