Rainbow Fish Reveal: A Painting Activity for Toddlers

Hiya lab partners! We out here with another toddler activity. You know these littles can test you when they are I engaged and bored. So the search for engaging activities outside of screen time is still on in our home.

I came across the page @happytotshelf on Instagram and let me tell you, she is the bomb with activities for kids.

I decided to try one of them and it was easy to prep and such fun for my little queen and I! No shame in my game friends, I am a preschool teacher after all and I do like some nice colouring activities.

So let’s get straight into it.

DIY Washable Paint Toddler Activity

Hungry tired mom + clingy phase toddler = Google search for engaging independent play activities for toddler.

These days, little miss toddler is at the “active wanna do more phase” which translates to the fact that I, as her mom am at the “tired, going to hide in the bathroom phase”. To get some quiet time to make breakfast today, I decided to try this washable paint activity thay has been popping up on my Pinterest.

DIY Giant Bubble Solution & Bubble Wand

Hello my lab assistants, It’s me again, your able lab tech. Been  along minute on here.

This summer holiday has just begun and my 18 month old and I are starting to get tired of each other’s faces. Just kidding.

Really though, finding activities for toddlers to stay emgaged is no easy feat. Anywhos, I was taking a stroll on the interweb when I found a pots about giant bubbles and lasting bubble solution. What did I do? I decided to experiment of course.

I am sad to say I cannot remember the blog I found the post in. I do know that the recipe called for wire hangers, gelatin and corn starch, after that, I stopped reading and said say no more! Lolz. I should have probably kept reading to see the actual measurements for the said ingredients because I ended up with a bucket full of water, dish washing soap and nothing but a dream of bubbles.

My attempt at using wire hangers to make a giant bubble wand was an epic fail,. At least the bubble solution gave us some tiny little bubble fun.

This post was kinf of a later thought so I do not have pics of the process of the outcome but I just thought I should share. If anyone could tell me what to do to make it work next time, I would appreciate it.

Have you attempted to make giant bubbles at home? Did it work? What did you use? Do share your experience in the comments.

Signing out from the lab for now.

Apple Cider Vinegar for Itchy Scalp

Hello, my fellow DIY experimenters! How’s it going?

Nothing much happening on my end! Just dealing with how I wasted money on a hairstyle that I carried for only a week because dandruff and an excessively itchy scalp would not let me be great!

I literally just took out a one-week-old crochet braid hairdo because my scalp was itching to the point of pain. Like I was injuring my scalp in the name of scratching… So, understandably, by the end of week one of having on my new hair, I was done with it. The struggle y’all! 😩

After taking it out and washing my hair, I was still having really bad itching on my scalp and it was very dry. I needed a fast-acting DIY solution all this while thinking about the money I spent on the hair that was supposed to last me two to three weeks! 😭

Wanna know how I got rid of the problem? I used apple cider vinegar!

Keep reading to see how I used apple cider vinegar to stop my scalp from itching!

Black Pepper to Keep Away Rats?

Hi guys! Your fave lifehack lab rat is here again! See what I did there? With the rat in the title and in the… never mind!

Anywho, I am here with a hack for y’all who are having issues keeping pesky rats away from your backyards and homes.

I have been having issues (like serious issues) with my rats in my backyard! I know I know… How did that happen? Well, my backyard is where we keep stuff like the kegs of fuel for the generator, oil for the said generator, some paint cans fromt the time we painted the house years ago, the gas cylinder for the cooker, a tire from a car (I don’t know why this is in my backyard), the outside fitting for the air conditioning unit. Yeah, lots of stuff and so lots of places that a rat would find nice and warm, and cosy!

The reality of it is if you have a place where you store lots of things, rats or mice will love such nooks and crannies to hide in and chew things and leave their disgusting poo and … I digress. Like I was saying, I had tried, rat poison, getting rid of things, nothing was keeping these bad boys away. I had given up and just tried to clean up after the pesky little s*its as much as I could.

DIY Fabric Flower Pom-Pom

I just love this DIY blogger, Alejandra’s Styles, on YouTube. After seeing this tutorial she did on fabric flower pom-poms, I decided to try it.

She used her pom-pom on a necklace but I will show a couple of other ways to use it.

You will need:

•  Fabric  of your choice (I used an old t-shirt)
• scissors
• glue gun
• paper cut out

Cardboard box to bulletin board

I have been looking for ways to spice up my wall without ruining the paint with nails so decided to make a bulletin or stick up board. I followed the instructions on this tutorial.

Materials needed

~ Carton/cardboard box

~ Glue

~ fabric

For mine, I used an Indomie Instant  Noodles carton/box.

Gift Set Box To Jewellery Box

Hello my lab partners!

Sorry I have neglected this blog. It’s not like I do not craft, it’s that laziness gets the best of me and I sometimes can’t be bothered to take pics while crafting so that leaves me without the material for a post.

It is a new year and I am promising I will try.

I got this from my boyfriend’s mom as a gift.

Venus SkinQuench Gift Set

Braided bracelet

I can’t remember where I saw the tutorial for this but if you google “braided bracelet DIY” you should find lots of tutorials showing how to achieve this.

Tank top to headband

This old tank top of a friend of mine has been chopping dust in my house.

She had initially brought it for me to salvage cos it had holes or a hole somewhere. Needless to say, the tank was beyond my salvaging skills. So I decided to turn it into something else. I saw a t-shirt to headband tutorial on Make it & Love it and followed the steps there.

What do you guys think?