Grilling Vegetables

Smokin' Veggies

This past weekend my father-in-law taught us how to make delicious smoked veggies on the grill.

Ingredients:
1 can of French Style Green Beans
1 can of sliced carrots
1 can of sliced or whole potatoes
butter
foil
wood chips-cedar, maple, or mesquite

*We bought a small bag of mesquite wood chips for $2 at Wal-Mart.

Get the grill ready-- put the wood chips down first and then put the coals on top. Start your grill like you normally do.

Make a foil pouch, drain the canned vegetables, pour them into the foil, throw butter on top, close the pouch and put on grill.

We cooked steaks at the same time and when they were done, we took the veggies off at the same time.

Teriyaki Chicken Kabobs

Ingredients:
1lb of chicken breasts or tenderloins
Jack Daniels Teriyaki Marinade
red bell pepper
green bell pepper
sliced pineapples(from can)
Kabob Skewers- metal or wooden

*Note-If using wooden skewers soak them in water for at least an hour prior to using them. This will prevent your skewers from burning up. Fill up a cookie sheet with water and put wooden skewers in them. Soak 10-12 skewers.

Directions
1. Put whole chicken breasts or tenderloins in Jack Daniels Teriyaki Marinade at least 4 hours prior to cooking. (We stick the chicken in the night before and they are nice and brown when we pull the chicken out of the bag.)

2. Cut up bell peppers and sliced pineapples in bite size pieces.

3. Have grill hot and ready to cook.

4. Pull chicken out of marinade and cut up in bite sizes pieces.

5. Get skewers out of water, start adding on chicken peppers and pineapple in any order you want. Have the kids help!!

6. Throw kabobs on grill, turn kabobs every few minutes. Should only take approximately 15minutes.

Enjoy!!

Color Flash Cards

Here is a cheap and easy way for your child to learn their colors.

Supplies:
Paint Sample Cards
Hole Puncher
Metal Book Ring

Go to a local store that sells paint and pick up some paint sample cards, one for every basic color.

Punch holes in the corner.


Place on metal ring and you have color flash cards!

Your kids will love putting the rings on their fingers and playing/learning with their color cards.

Kids Hooded Towel

Hooded Bath Towels

I love hooded bath towels, but when my son outgrew his baby ones, I noticed how expensive child size ones are so I decided to make some myself. This example is actually one for my niece for Christmas.

I wash my towels and ribbon separately before sewing to prevent shrinking and bleeding of material.

Supplies:
One regular size bath towel
One hand towel
Matching Thread
Ribbon
Sewing Machine


Directions:

Lay your hand towel out and cut in half. Since only half is needed, you can use the other half to make another hooded towel!


Fold your hand towel in half, and fold your bath towel in half. Find the middle where they meet and place a pin. Unfold them and pin them together for sewing.


Sew together using a regular straight stitching.

Fold the hand towel and bath towel in half (right sides together) and stitch the top part of the hand towel closed.



You have just completed your hooded towel. But I want to add ribbon for decoration, so my next step is to place ribbon on the lined part of towel, pin it and sew it.


Completed hooded towel:

Halloween Letters

Supplies:
Mod podge
Scrapbooking paper of choice
Scissors
Paint-color of your choice, paintbrush
Wooden Letters



I used pre-made wooden letters from a craft store.


Traced the letters on scrapbooking paper, and cut the letters out.


Mod-podge the paper on the letters.

Paint the letter of choice.


After they are dry, hook the letters together with metal hooks.

Glass Bead Wooden Cross

I have tons of beads just lying around so I figured I would make something with them.

I bought a plain wooden cross from a craft store.
Painted it black.
Dug through my beads and picked out clear, and turquoise beads and began gluing with a hot glue gun!

Garden Rocks

I wanted to make homemade signs for our garden so I decided to paint on rocks we had laying around in the backyard.

I simply gathered the amount of rocks that were needed, sprayed the dirt off with water and began painting! I used regular craft paint and then sprayed an outdoor sealer when I finished painting!







This is a great project to enjoy with your kids on a nice spring day while preparing your garden!!