Homemade Christmas

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Bath Paints

My nieces are 3 and 4 years old, and I was trying to find something fun and easy to do for them for Christmas.

Enter Bath Paints!

This is pretty easy to do, and serves many roles. I highly encourage anyone who has kids on their shopping lists, to add this activity!

It is fun for the kids, gets them clean, AND gets the tub clean! I may have to use these myself…

I did change the instructions from the woman’s post. They seem to work either way.

Supplies Needed

  • Baking Soda
  • Corn Starch
  • Food Coloring
  • Kid’s Shampoo
  • Traveling Shampoo cases

Instructions

  • I started off with the corn starch and baking soda separate, then decided to combine them when I was adding them to the bottle. The cornstarch by itself will yield a smoother mixture, and the baking soda will have a grainy jello consistency.
  • You add the shampoo, cornstarch, baking soda, and food coloring in a bowl.
  • We put the mixture in a Ziploc bag and cut the corner out to squeeze them into the travel tubes.
  • And then you let the kids play!
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All the supplies.

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This is when I had them separate. I love watching food coloring do it’s thing.

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All my colors.

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I made quite a bit. My eyeballing didn’t go over so well. I just put any extra back into the empty shampoo bottles for the rainbow effect. We did only use 2 of the 3 shampoos we bought. The one on the left is still just plain shampoo.We put the corresponding colors in the tubes to make it fun for the girls to “paint” with.

Both of my nieces love to draw so hopefully this goes over well!

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Cranberry Cinnamon Honey Butter

My family is really hard to shop for. Most of us, when we want or need something we are in a position where we can just go get it. So Christmas and birthdays become increasingly more difficult as the years go by.

However, one truth remains.

We love to eat.

So when I came across this recipe, I knew I had found at least one gift. I did adjust the recipe a smidge on the measurements.

Cranberry Cinnamon Honey Butter

Ingredients

  • 3 sticks of butter
  • 3/4 cup of dried cranberries
  • 3 tsp of ground cinnamon
  • 3-4 tbs of honey

Instructions

  • Combine all ingredients in a mixer. I tried a blender first, and it just wasn’t cooperating, so I put it in my Kitchenaid. Worked like a charm
  • You may need to scrape the sides a few times and mix again just to make sure all the cinnamon is incorporated.
  • Store in container of choice.
  • Best when used at room temperature, but will need to be refrigerated between uses.
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Somewhat homemade butter in the making

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Excuse the mess behind this. We were overlapping several different projects at one time. Our kitchen looked like something exploded.

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The recipe doesn’t not yield an exorbitant amount, so just note that if you are hoping to make it for several people. This is how much we got out of the recipe listed above.

I tasted some along the way, and it tastes so good! It would be great on toast and bagels. I kind of want to go out and get raisin bread just for this butter!

It took me about 15 minutes to make this, so it is super easy to whip up.

Do you have any homemade butter recipes?