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After reading the name of these brownies - Chocolate Zucchini Brownies, you may be thinking how horrible this recipe might taste. Yes, it does sound odd, but honestly, the zucchini is tasteless, but helped make these brownies moist.I have made this recipe a few times so far and have always used milk chocolate chips. But, this last time, I ran out of milk chocolate chips, so I added ½ milk chocolate chips and ½ peanut butter chips. The kids ...
These Vertebrates and Invertebrates sorting mats are the perfect way for toddlers, kindergarteners and preschoolers to practice recognizing simple animal classification and sorting at the same time! Materials Needed white paper printer laminatorTo Prepare:To prepare, print out all the pages on white paper or cardstock. For durability, I then recommend laminating them. There are three different ...
These fun printable summer alphabet matching cards are going to help your children learn their uppercase and lowercase letters in not time. These are really colourful flashcards which will provide your child with lots of fun.Materials Needed white paper printer laminator scissors binder ringThese printable summer-themed alphabet matching cards can be used in multiple ways:Use to match uppercase and ...
Essential Oils are very concentrated so, when applied to the skin, they need to be diluted. This is where the carrier oils come in. They are used to help 'carry' essential oils to your skin, without interfering with the therapeutic properties of the essential oils. These carrier oils can be used on their own, infused with herbs or with other oils to help nourish your skin.What Are Carrier Oils?Carrier oils are vegetable oils, usually ...
This chocolate fudge slice is something that I have been making for a long time now. Everyone loves it, especially with the delicious chocolate icing. This delicious chocolate fudge slice can be cut into pieces, wrapped and frozen for up to one month.With only six ingredients, this slice recipe can be made, quickly and easily, in one bowl, which makes cleaning up easy!Chocolate Fudge Slice 1 cup SR ...
Kids develop good financial skills, by learning about money at an early age. A good foundation is critical to help them with financial challenges as they grow into adulthood. I have found very little Australian money related activities , so I decided to create my own, this Australian Piggy Bank printable pack.This Australian money printable pack contains 11 pages. On the first five pages, kids are asked to cut out and glue the coins into ...
Are you needing help to organise your days better? Then these printable daily planners are just what you need. There are many gorgeous designs to choose from that will help you be more productive.I am naturally a semi-organised person, though I do need to work on being more efficient with my time. When I have more of a plan for my day, I tend to get a lot more done. With the help of these one-page printable daily planners, I have been ...
After our oldest boy reacted with penicillin, I became interested in a more natural approach to health. We have been using these for a while now, though you can never stop learning about the amazing therapeutic and medicinal benefits of these oils. Here are a few ideas to help you get started with essential oils.So What are Essential Oils? Essential oils are the highly concentrated version of the natural oils in plants. The process ...
I have been making this Apple and Sour Cream Slice for years, so I thought I had already put this recipe up for you, but I hadn't. We know it as Little Dreamer Apple Slice and it is an easy and very delicious slice to make.This lovely recipe has a sweet, cake-like base with a sour cream, apple and a hint of cinnamon on top.For this recipe, I used a plain, vanilla cake mix, though you could make your own from scratch. The same goes ...
While planting some vegetable seeds in our garden, our boys started asking lots of questions about how these seeds grow, why certain vegetables can't be planted together etc. so I decided to create these vegetable cards to help them learn more about vegetables.Check out the list of materials that we use with these printables.To use these cards:Matching cards - use as cards matching the pictures to the words. Matching game - ...