Reward Chart

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We just started toilet training. People always told me that it would be easy when you’re using cloth nappies and it turns out they were right! My girl self toilet trained at 2,5 and she hasn’t had any accidents so far! We couldn’t be happier. But off course we need to reward our big girl, so I went looking for reward chart ideas. Click on the pictures for the link.

Love the velcro and it looks really pretty:

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Easy printable reward charts

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Free printable train reward chart

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This is my absolute favorite reward chart. Great tutorial! One day… when I have a lot of time

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And this is what our reward chart turned out to be… can you tell that I have a girl. The poor girl didn’t have pink or red nail polish and as far as I’m concerned she can have nail polish if that keeps her off chocolate and biscuits as a reward. I made a collage using picmonkey.

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Chocolate Custard

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We love chocolate! I don’t think I need to explain… If you love chocolate you will love our quick chocolate custard recipe. Yummy and you can adjust the sugar content to get it just as you like it. Makes 4 small pots.

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What do you need:

500 ml milk

75 gr  good quality chocolate

45 gr sugar

30 gr cornflour

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Dissolve the cornflour in a bit of cold milk. Add the chocolate to the rest of the milk over medium heat, stir until the chocolate has melted, add dissolved cornflour and sugar and bring to the boil. Let it boil until it thickens. Poor in pots and allow to cool down. You can also cover them and keep them in the fridge.

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Don’t forget to lick the pot! Yum!

 

 

Ice Art

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After discovering this activity here I just had to try it straight away. All you need is food coloring, containers, a dropper, an ice block and kitchen salt.

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I made my ice blocks in water balloons but you can make them in any shape you want. You just want to make sure that you’ve got them in the freezer the day before.

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Make your food coloring. They colors really need to be dark because they will dissolve in the ice. Notice the wonderful tip I got from Jules. Reuse your coffee tray and cups. They won’t fall over and kids love painting the tray as well.

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Sprinkle the ice with kitchen salt. This will make the ice crack so the colors can go easily in the ice. We used lots of salt because it was so much fun sprinkling salt.

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Start adding color with your dropper

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Add more color so it looks really pretty

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Add heaps of color, it doesn’t look that pretty anymore but it is fun!

Cloth Diaper Change around the Globe

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Hello, I’m Liesbeth, sister-in-law of Magaly, architect and blogger, living in Leuven with my husband and son Aaron, who is 6 months old. We use cloth diapers and joined the Great Cloth Diaper Change in Leuven.  The event there was organised by “Doekjes en Broekjes”, a shop kind of similar to flower child and photo credits are to them.

Here is the story of the event on the other Side of the globe.

It was a sunny, yet windy morning and we were expected at 10.30 at a school in the city centre of Leuven. When we arrived, there were already a lot of children assembled there, with their parents of course.  We were welcomed, had to fill a form and got a goodie bag with a lovey and some Ecover washing powder (how appropriate).

We were all seated on gym mats.  The little ones, from all different ages, were crawling and walking around on them, the parents were getting their nappies ready and chatting.  It was such a colourful and joyful assembly!

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Then the organization gave a small speech.  There were 48 kids, trying to break the record. And apparently, by using cloth diapers, those 48 kids were already saving 72.000 kg of garbage and 336 trees, thus a small forest!

After that, the countdown began.  First we showed our nappies in the air and then it was changing time.  After changing we all put our babies up in the air, and it was picture time.

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All in all it was fun to do and I hope this can contribute to more parents using cloth nappies.  Hope you had a good one too!  Thumbs up for the organization.

Chalkboard Paint Blocks

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Last week I noticed a pot of chalkboard paint in the shop. I couldn’t resist. All I needed was something to paint. When they delivered our new bed there were several wooden blocks keeping the slats in place. I kept the blocks, they have been used as a musical instrument but today I had plans with them. Creating beautiful blocks to play with. And I’m sure you can still bang them together if you would like to. Now what do we need?

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Chalkboard paint, wooden blocks, a brush, painters tape, a roller and washi tape

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Carefully cover the sides with painters tape. As you see I didn’t have painters tape, but I will put washi tape over this side so it doesn’t really matter if I have an edge that is not so straight.

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Open the paint and just then you notice you didn’t actually buy black chalkboard paint but green chalkboard paint. And what kind of green… Well that brought met right back to primary school. But since we have just opened a pot of green we are going ahead with it! Use a brush to apply the first coat. And leave to dry for an hour before you apply a second coat. Half an hour later the paint seemed to be well absorbed so I turned the blocks over to paint the other side.

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Apply the second layer with a roller and allow to dry for 24 hours before you use chalk on the paint.

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Remove the tape and add washi tape. I had to cut my washi tape because it wasn’t wide enough for the blocks.

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Washi Tape

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Chalk!

I can see lots of use for these blocks. There will be a toddler scribbling on them but you can also use them as table decoration or just write a nice message on them.

Where is the Dude?

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Have you seen our Dude? Do you want a Dude? If you order one of our beautiful products on our website flowerchild.com.au we will mail you a Dude with your gorgeous goodies. Or pop into the store to get a Dude. And if you are very lucky you might find a Dude. He is popping up everywhere.

On Sydney’s playgrounds…

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In Vienna, Austria…

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Schonbrunn Palace

In Brussels, Belgium…

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In Middelkerke, Belgium

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Urbanus, a famous comic hero and his dog

In Ostend, Belgium (My hometown, this is what our beaches look like in summer)

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Now what do you do if you find a Dude? Take him home, take him to places he hasn’t been before. Take a pic and #whereisthedude or post the picture on our facebookpage. Make sure you check you privacy settings (we can see that some of you have posted pictures on Instagram but we can’t actually see them) You can also email you pictures to orders@flowerchild.com.au and we will add them to our Instagram! Check Instagram for more pictures of the Dude!

I hope you will have lots of fun with your Dude!

Rainbow Rice Sensory Box

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This is the first sensory box I made. My daughter was 1,5 years old and she was at the stage that she would scream the house down if I would attempt to make dinner. This sensory box was a huge hit. She would play hours with the box, scooping and pouring. And yes it did make a mess but it was easy to clean up. You can put the box on a rug or a towel so you can catch all the rice that escapes.

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Add 200grams of rice per ziplock bag. Add 10 drops of food coloring and one or two pumps of alcohol based hand sanitizer to set the color. You could also do this with rubbing alcohol but I didn’t have any so I decided to go with the sanitizer. Close the bags and spread out the coloring. If you’re not happy with the color add more food coloring straight away. If you wait longer the rice doesn’t seem to absorb it. Open your bags and allow to dry completely, this could take a couple of days.

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Add the rice to a container. Make sure that it’s not too deep so they don’t tip it over if they play with the box. You want a container that you can close so the little ones can’t get to the rice whenever they feel like it.

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Add scoops, containers, a funnel and other interesting materials.

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Hand over to your little one and observe what happens or try that recipe that you have been saving for a quiet moment like this!

make mess disappear

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Sometimes it’s the little things that makes life so much easier.

I cannot tell you how easy this seat covers makes life with a little person.

No more scary car seat that you SHOULD get around to vacuuming.

Someday soon….

Tomorrow…

Really soon.

Pop this in – looks great and a simple quick shake each time (ok, every few days) keeps those stranded sultanas to a minimum. You can use the same one for the pram and high chair too.

Wash them in the machine when you get a moment.

Off to a friends for a meal take it with you. No more mess guilt.

Folded they fit into your bag.

Café high chair too grimy? Not a worry you have the perfect seat cover…. Too easy. 

Additional plus  - now when you ebay your pram & high chair (or gift them to your siste)r they will be in gorgeous condition!

no more sticky, fuzz ridden, gooey bits

no more sticky, fuzz ridden, gooey bits

Wishful Wednesday: Playbeds

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Last week I came across this amazing playbed from CedarWorks. It brought me right back to my childhood and how I wished for a simple bunk bed. My girl would love one of these. Being the parent now, I just want to go for something that will last into her teenage years. But after seeing these great ideas, who knows… maybe one day we will have someones childhood dream coming true.

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This one is a room in a eco holiday house in Andorra. Click on picture for more info if you happen to go there one day…

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Very Boyish, I can see pirates waking up in this one.

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Sweet Dreams!

Easter Egg Craft

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Easter is coming! Yummy chocolate is popping up everywhere. Here are some easy and fun Easter craft ideas for you to try at home. Click on the pictures to find out how to make them.

Stick some adhesive dots on coloured eggs. Anything with stickers is a winner at our house.

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This is my daughter dying her very first eggs with food colouring and a dropper.

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Chalk paint! This is so smart, you could use different colours of chalk paint and just draw on them as much as you want.

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For mums and older kids. These easter eggs are made in the same way as the hot air balloons we have in our shop.

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This one is gorgeous. This is the way to get rid of all that scrapbook paper that has been waiting in the cupboard.

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Happy Easter Crafting!