Homemade Car wash

You will have to excuse the blurry photos in this one, we got lost in all the excitement and realised after the photos didn't do justice to the day of fun we had!
I had seen some ideas of PVC pipe made into a car wash and it looked amazing but seriously we dont have PVC pipes spare laying around and i wouldn't know where to start searching for them so on a hot afternoon we whipped up this little beauty.....
One clothes hanger plus orange bag netting,plastic bags,sponges,water balloons,garbage bags,string and a towel mixed with a sprinkler made our own handmade CAR WASH!

The kids had a blast! Taking each of their bikes through the car wash to get clean

The sprinkler cooled them off and the racing around on bikes wore them both out!

The towel at the end dried them off ready to go through again...These cars were SUPER clean by the end of the day!

Shoebox Icecream shop

I'm always on the hunt to find something to do with toilet rolls so when Tara was asking for a ice cream shop we came up with this. All you need is......
Ripping and scrunching are great activities for little hands so i got Tara to make the ice cream by ripping up tissue paper and scrunching it into balls. We had apple, strawberry, blueberry and vanilla "flavours". The toilet roll cones are just held together with masking tape at the bottom

The shoebox holds the toilet roll cones upright so you can use the tongs to balance the ice cream balls on top of the cones easily.

Add a string around your neck for a walkabout ice cream stall

DIY dressing table

What can you make with a cardboard box??? Well the talented Christie from Childhood 101 made a dressing table and i thought that was very clever! So i set about making one for Tara
http://childhood101.com/2011/05/diy-kids-play-dressing-table-from-a-cardboard-box/
I wanted ours to be a bit taller so i didn't need a stool so we used a tall moving box that was nice and sturdy. I cut off one side of it and secured it with electrical tape
I used patterned contact to cover it. A circle mirror that is held on by double sided tape and decorated it in fabrics.

Added all of Tara's accessories

Plenty of storage underneath

Functional in her bedroom but also a great excuse to do some role playing

I think she was pleased with the outcome!