Tie-Dye Heart - Make your own t-shirt
Are you looking for something fun to do and sick of the same old tie-dye shirt? Every year for volleyball, we get together at a pasta party and make tie-dye shirts. I came across this video on how to make a tie-dye heart. Looks easy enough! Do you make your own t-shirts every year?
You can get the full list of materials needed and instructions at the Duncan website.
Teen Girl Gift Idea - Comfort Pillow
Look what came in the mail yesterday! We ordered two of these herbal comfort pillows which smell awesome. You just toss one in the microwave for a minute or two and you have a warm, cozy, heavenly-smelling pillow. They’re perfect for sore muscles or to use on chilly night. Skip the comfort food and grab one of these instead. It’s a good present for Mom, too!

Aches and Pains: Use warm, apply to the area of discomfort
Relaxation: Use warm or chilled, let the aroma take you away.
Headaches: Use cold for migraines and warm for sinus or tension
Menstrual Cramps: Use warm and apply to the lower abdomen area
Stress and Depression: Use warm apply to neck area, relax
Insomnia: Place near your sleeping pillow or apply warm against body at bedtime
Colds and Flu: Use warm and apply to chest area for congestion and neck for sore throat. (not advised when fever is present)
Earaches: Use warm and place over ear
22 Activities You Never Thought Of For Teens (Instead of Watching TV)
Encouraging your preteen or tweenager to watch less TV? Try giving him this list of ideas to get him off the couch. Anytime you hear the “B” word (bored), remind him how fun life can be when you live it yourself instead of watching it on television.
Play guitar. If you don’t know how, it’s time you learned!
Read a good book. Dust off that library card! Get your reluctant reader inspired with something by Lemony Snicket
Write a letter to a friend. Yes, the snail mail type.
Bored? Play a board game. Star Wars Monopoly anyone?
Practice juggling
Do 20 pushups
Help do laundry
Write a poem
Play Mad Libs
Find change under the couch cushions
Have an arm wrestle
Put vinegar in baking soda and stand back
Start a blog. Do it for free at Blogger
Get a parakeet and teach him vocabulary words
Learn how to make espresso, cappucino and regular coffee
Make a lego movie! This is where you run your Lego men through fantastic adventures and capture it all on videotape.
Make a permanent artificial sand castle with a paste made from sawdust
and glue
Make a treasure hunt
Put a mushroom cap on some paper, wait a day, and find a ring of spores
Climb a tree and act like a nut
Make your own soda
And now, for the 22nd, most important thing to do instead of watch TV….
Have a burping contest
Have fun!
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