Parent Night Out!

As a gift to my daycare parents, I told them I would keep all their children one evening in January so they could have a night out without children. They could spend the evening however they wanted.....date night, shopping, stay at home and just relax.....whatever.   And I would keep all their children for free.....they could drop off at 5 and pick-up by midnight.

The children have been so excited, everyday they ask if they are staying at my house till midnight.

We started off by just playing.....15 kids ranging from 2-10!!!!  I honestly thought it would be really loud, but it wasn't too bad.....everyone played great and were really excited!

Then we ordered some pizza and of course had to have some pop!!!!

And of course we had to do some kind of craft.......these penguins were fun for all ages and super easy......the big kids were great in helping the little ones glue on if they needed help.

Take an empty water bottle and have the children fill with cotton balls first.

Then decorate to look like a penguin. I had everything precut so they just glued on. We used black electrical tape for the head.

Movie Time! I figured some kids would start getting tired so thought a movie was in order.....we watched Madagascar 3 and had some popcorn and brownies.

 Turned off the lights and had glow bracelets so they could still see......so fun!

 

About half of the kids fell asleep during the movie.  We had a great time and I think I will be making this an annual thing if parents don't mind.

 

I do have to thank my husband for helping out......he was great and the kids love when he's around!!!

 

 

Hibernation

I think this is one of the kids' favorite activities.......coming to my house in their pjs and hibernating in a cave!  Something they look forward to and is always so much fun!

They all brought a teddy bear to hibernate with......mickey mouse and a few other animals joined us as well!

 

We talked about different food that animals eat before hibernating for the winter......nuts and berries were a few.  So, I picked up different nuts for the children to crack open and try.

A few of the children liked the walnuts, but the peanuts were a huge hit......they loved cracking those open and eating them......they all asked for more! 

 I also made them some acorns......mini vanilla wafer stuck to a hershey's kiss using melted chocolate.

 

 And teddy grahams covered with melted chocolate and sprinkles on spoons (these were used to stir their hot chocolate).......we used them to represent the bears in their beds.  I then gave them hot chocolate (which was the cave) and marshmallows on top (the snow) and the bears were going in their cave to go to sleep!

Then they ate all their goodies in the cave!

Bear masks!  These were just made with a paper plate and cotton balls.....super easy.

 

So much fun to hibernate and stay in pjs all day!!!!!

Snow!

Today we made snow!  Well, not real snow but it sure looked like it and was just as much fun without getting cold.  The children had a blast playing with it and it's super easy to make.

 

All you need is 2 boxes of cornstarch and a can of shaving cream. 

Mix it all together.

And let the kids play in it.  I knew all the kids would want to play with it right away, so I set a plastic table cloth on the floor and gave them all a pile of snow and let them go at it.

B was not as excited as the rest of the kids were......this was all he did and he was done!

 

I think Maddox was having a little too much fun with it......he was really getting into it being snow, at one point it was being thrown!  But the nice part is, it just wipes off and vacuums up easily.

 



 This stuff is awesome.....super soft, but yet you are able to mold it into different things or pat it together.......the children were making mohawks, pizza, mounds, volcanoes, anything and everything they could think of.....so much fun, even for adults! 
Store in an air tight container to use again.