Ms Kadi's Girls' Kamp Tuesday

Day two of kamp:

1. Sewing shirts
2. Button bracelets/bookmarks
3. Pizza (make dough)
4. Make Gram crackers and 
5. peanut butter

We started the morning off making button bracelets.  The cord was a bit think for the buttons.  Some girls (and one boy) really enjoyed this project, while others where frustrated by the cord.  The group ended up making bracelets, anklets and bookmarks.

 A big THANKS goes out to my friend Linda for coming over with a second sewing machine and spending 2 days with the eight girls making shirts.  I am so thankful for friends that are willing to share crafts that they are more knowledgable then I am with the girls.

 While Linda and her daughter Hannah were sewing with 2 of the girls, I took the other 5 in the kitchen to make pizza.  We made the dough from scratch. Making the dough probably took less the 30 minutes (including proofing the yeast).  We all agreed it was the best pizza we had eaten.

proofing the yeast

mixing the pizza dough in the food processor

rolling dough again today

more rolling

cheese and pepperoni pizza

Yummy

The other cooking project today was home made peanut butter and gram crackers.  Sage loves gram crackers so she picked this project.  The dough seemed too squishy to roll-so we dropped them and pressed them with a fork.  I wouldn't say they tasted just like gram crackers, but they had a nice honey/molasses flavor to them.  The peanut butter was just straight peanuts in the food processor-the link above explains the different phases peanut go through to make it into peanut butter.

peanut butter

looking at the difference in a teaspoon (t) and a tablespoon (T)

...and go

ok, too fast and it flew into your hair :-)

more like drop cookies

gram crackers and peanut butter

We finished the day with two more shirts (total of 4 today) and more bracelet making.

sewing and preping

Ms Kadi's Girls' Kamp Monday

So several months ago I decided to do a week of camp revolving around each child-later named Ms Kadi's Girl/Boy Kamp.  I began Pinteresting all kinds of ideas of things I have always wanted to do, projects that are hot on Pinterest right now, and things the kids suggested.


Kamp began this week with the girls.  Monday at the house there were 7 girls and me from 10-2.  

Here is Monday's schedule

1. Tie dye shirts (bleach)
2. Make pasta and sauce
3. Candy sushi
4. Peanut butter play-dough
5. Crochet (didn't get to it)

First, thing we did was to make the pasta.  To make the pasta and eat it took us close to 2 hours:

Homemade Egg Pasta
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups pasta flour 

3 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
2 to 3 tablespoons water (if necessary)
Directions in link.

You need one person that can read the directions.

mixing flour and eggs together to make pasta

Now that we have the balls it is time to roll everything out.

So after kneading for 10 minutes the girls moved on to rolling the dough out (we did not have a pasta roller so we did it by hand-it was thick but still so good).  They worked in  twos  rolling the dough as flats as they could folding it in 1/3 and rerolling.  They did this 3 times then cut it with a pizza cutter. 

cutting pasta noodles with a pizza cutter

Making pasta sauce

The pasta sauce I made up:

1. 1 large can diced tomatoes
2. 1 small can diced tomatoes w/ garlic (because that was what was in the pantry)
3. tomato paste
4. a handful of carrots finely chopped (in the food processor)
5. 1/2 onion
6. 3-4 cloves garlic
7. cream

Saute onion, garlic, and carrots until they have some color.  Add the canned tomatoes and 2 tablespoons tomato paste.  Cook until everything is heated through.  Add a splash of cream at the end.

Oh, yes we added fresh basil and rosemary to the sauce from the garden.

All the pasta before boiling.  We added the pasta to our boiling salt water in 2 rounds. They are thicker then running the through a pasta machine so they took 5-7 minutes to cook.  We tossed with the sauce and added some parmesan cheese.

Yum

More yum

Almost gone

Fantastico!!!!

Finished pasta and sauce

Cleaning up

dance break!!!!

So the next project I wanted to do was bleach dye or I keep calling it "anti-tye dye".  We found the easiest thing was to cut a pattern out of a cereal box and spray bleach around the edge of the design to "take the color away".  We also attempted taping then spraying with bleach.   The black shirt is from the link above.  I will add pictures of it done w/ the colored dyes.  We also found the bright yellow shirt took none of the bleach so we tye-dyed it. (our next attempt we bought iron on patches on sale at Michaels-we are going to spray around them and see if they work.  I will post pictures. Also here is a link on using a bleach pen to "write" on a shirt for next time.

step 1 in dying the black shirt

bleach dyed shirt w/ heart stencil.

working in the 100 degree heat

one of my favorites you can see the spray marks

shirts drying before being washed

So the next fun activity was to make candy sushi (candy sushi w/ peeps).  We started with making rice crispy treats.   Then we put the treats to cool on a cookie sheet.  Once the treats were cooled we cut them in rectangles, place a twizzler on one end roll the rice crispies around the twizzler and cut the excess off.  Roll a fruit roll up around the outside and cut into circles.  We made 2 of these.  With the excess crispies we put a swedish fish and tied off with some of the fruit rollup.

melting marshmallows

measuring rice crispies

fruit roll ups

sticky mess

stickier mess

While waiting for the rice crispies to cool we made peanut butter play-dough. No wonder it didn't make a play-dough form we left out the powdered sugar:

- 18 ounces creamy peanut butter

- 6 tablespoons honey

- 1 1/4 cup non-fat dry milk (packet for one quart)

- 1/2 cup powdered sugar

so much fun messy

messy together

not so messy

Back to sushi.  Finishing it and eating.

Elementary school

Well my baby graduated elementary school today!  On to bigger and better things.  Love ya Sagie!!!!