Keeping Your Cool Contest ENTRIES

Christy · **Keeping Your Cool Contest ENTRIES**

This thread is for contest entries only. Each post is considered one entry.

How To Enter:

You must include all of the following for your entry to count!

1) Your entry must be original
2) Include the time prep involved
3) Any costs related to the activity
4) Pictures (optional)

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Christy · 09-29-2009, 01:26 PM

Here's an entry:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ellie Mae

1) Your entry must be original
2) Include the time prep involved
3) Any costs related to the activity
4) Pictures (optional

1. Hanging Bird Treats. Teach your little ones about taking care of nature's creatures even when it is cold out. Take a aliminum pie pan fill it with water, cranberries, shelled nuts, bird seed. Taking a loop of cord (so that you can hang it after it is froze) place it in the water and hanging over the edge, freeze the pan either in your freezer or set outside. Then once frozen release the ice block of feed and hang it in a tree for the birdies. It will look beautiful sparkling off the sun and the birds will love it.

You can also smear peanut butter on large pinecones roll them in birdseed and hang them in the trees with cord also.

Prep time: 30 minutes putting together and then freeze time.
Cost: Just the cost of bird seed. Around $5.00

2.Make ice candles out of recycled cardboard milk cartons, plastic containers that you can cut away. Add bits of color with shaved crayons, old colored candles, or pieces of shell from the nuts that you shelled in the above activity.

Get a candle for the center, set it inside the carton, around the outside of the candle inside the container put your bits of color and fill with water up to the edge of the candle but not over it. Freeze, tear away the carton and you have a beautiful ice candle

Prep time: 30 minutes
Cost: Price of the candle, depending on the size anywhere between $1.00 to $10.00

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:38 PM

Go sledding

-prep time none
-Cost---cost of a sled

Bundle up and find a nice size hill and take off on the sled.

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:39 PM

Make snowmen, build a fort, or have a snowball fight

prep time: none
cost: free

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:41 PM

Write a letter to Santa

Prep time none
Cost--paper, pen, and gas to drop it off at the post office

Help your child write a letter to Santa. Address the envelope to Santa Claus at the North Pole and drop it off at the Post Office or some libraries have places to drop off letters to Santa.

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:43 PM

Make Reindeer food

Prep time-none
Cost--use what you have at home already.

There is no one way to make Reindeer food so just use what you have at home. Combine granola, bird seed, sunflower seeds, etc into a bag. Sprinkle it on the roof for the reindeer to eat.

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:46 PM

Reindeer pictures

Prep time- few minutes to cut things out
Cost--few dollars

On a piece of brown construction paper trace your child's shoe and cut it out. On a piece of black construction paper trace their hands and cut them out. On another piece of construction paper glue the foot tracing with toes pointing down and glue the hands up top to be antlers. Have your child color on a face.

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:49 PM

Go look at Christmas light displays

Prep time none
Cost---price of gas

Drive around and look at holiday light displays in your community. Here there is a cemetary that sets up displays and usually has a live nativity scene...not every day you see a camel in Iowa. Sometimes word-of-mouth works to find the best homes. There is a man that we call Grizwald who decorates everything with lights. He also dresses in a Santa suit and hands out candycanes as you drive by. My girls love this house.

autismmom · 09-29-2009, 01:49 PM

Snow castles

cost- two or three old plastic cups or buckets. kids little toys( like little people), food coloring, etc.
time- what your imagination needs

Take the kids and yourself outside and use the cups to make a snow castle. Use different size cups/buckets for different castle heights. Paint a river or trees with food coloring. Put people around the castle.

deemom · 09-29-2009, 01:51 PM

Go to winter programs

Find out in your community where there are holiday concerts being put on. Usually it's free to get in. Check out churches and schools to see when they are putting them on.

Prep time---time to find them.

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