Try working from the bottom up. Fasten the snaps around the ankles first. That way your sides are matched as you work your way up to the middle. And once the suit is attached at each ankle, no amount of kicking is going to send it flying loose.
Core apples and cut cross wise. Dip the slices in pancake batter and prepare on the griddle the way you would a traditional pancake. This can also be made gluten free with a good quality GF pancake mix.
The back wheels are made from two Rolo candies. The rest is self-evident. Attach with tape or glue and off you go.
Slice a banana, add a swirl of your choice of dairy topping, and you have a cute little banana hat to garnish pancakes. Happy finger food! Top with a raisin and give your banana hat a tassel.
As always, be sure you check for allergies and make sure your little one is ready for finger food.
How cute are these? And not too scary for little ones. Click here for the Vintage Sisters Facebook page and learn
how to make these adorable mummy lights. Throw some cobwebs on them, and you’ll have grandmummy lights!
Click here to see some “why didn’t I think of that?” home-made
Halloween costumes from the How Does She? 
website.
Click here to see some mind-blowing (but manageable) forts for kids from quirkymama.com
Click here to see a different approach to tying a bow. This tip comes from Chalany High Heels.
You’re not Jewish? Join in anyway. It’s always a good time to acknowledge life and renewal, and any good celebration always includes good treats.
The traditional treat for Rosh HaShanah is apples dipped in honey. The combination represents looking forward to a fruitful and sweet new year. My personal preference? Gala apples – just the right texture and flavor to mix with the richness of the honey.
Oooh…honey. Honey is drippy and sticky, and serving it to your little ones means more honey on them than in them. Bit O Honey candy to the rescue. The miniature bars can be served with apple slices, or larger bars cut up into small pieces for little fingers. Just check the label first if you have a concern about food allergies.
Here’s to a sweet and prosperous New Year!
It may not have a face or a tail, but it’ll get you through in a pinch.
Who knows how many wee ones have sucked themselves to sleep on those cute little animals attached to pacifiers? It’s a stuffed animal, it’s a pacifier, it’s a win/win!
Until…uh oh! Wubbanub falls out of the grocery cart, or Mommy can’t find it in time to bring it to Nana’s. Then what?
I whipped up this improv “Wubbanub” today for my grandson. I grabbed a pacifier I already had on hand, then took a silk handkerchief that had belonged to my mother and ran it through the loop at the pacifier’s end until I had equal lengths of fabric on either side. As you can see above, I kept tying knots until I came to the ends.
Our little man took to it immediately. The silk was soft and the knots were interesting to feel. I had the added satisfaction of knowing he was holding a little bit of his great-grandmother, who would have loved him to the moon and back.
This can be done with any soft fabric (a baby washcloth or dishtowel) as long as you can pull it through the pacifier’s end loop. In fact, I did this many times for my daughter twenty-some years before Wubbanubs hit the market. It’s a grandmother’s trick from ages back.
This is an in-a-pinch hack, not a final solution. Unless you stitch the knots to keep them permanently tied, do not leave the baby unsupervised with this make-shift toy. We don’t want a little one to untie the knots, suck, swallow, and choke on a loose end of fabric. Keep an eye on your sweetie until she’s asleep, then remove the pacifier.