Popsicle Stick Patterns

Recently I was wandering the isles of a little dollar store trying to find pom poms. I found some, which was great! I also happened to come across giant popsicle sticks, in rainbow colours.

I decided to buy them, not knowing what to use them for. After hours of thinking and not coming up with anything I thought Grace would find fun, yet reasonably challenging. Eventually (at 3am in the morning while needing to pee) I thought of the perfect little activity.

One that can be done over and over, inside, and no mess. Sounds good, right?

If you would like to make some for your little one too I will explain how I did it, although it is pretty simple. 

-First, I found some colourful paper, the only stuff I had that had the closest colours was some thin card, so  I used that. 

-I had little popsicle sticks also, so I traced lots onto all the different coloured card and cut them out. I did about 5 or  6 for each colour. These are to represent the large popsicle sticks. 

-I then used some plain white photocopy paper and cut it into 4 pieces, use as many as you like. 

-Think of some patterns and glue them on using the little pieces of coloured paper. These will be templates for your child to follow to make his/her patterns with the large popsicle sticks. 

My child decided to follow a couple of the patterns and then just made her own, bigger and better ones. She likes using alllllll the popsicle sticks, something to think about if I were to re-do this little activity. 

Here are some of the patterns I used: 

Pregnancy Week 28

My mother needs to stop taking me shopping with her, because her self control is not doing so well at the moment and loves bakery food. So does Grace, I am a little out numbered.

Every morning I wake up and say to myself "I am really going to try eat super healthy today!" blah blah blah.... Things will be going well. Then we go shopping and to a cafe. MMMMHM. I guess it is good that I start the day off right, right?

I just purchased a juicer on yesterdays shopping trip, I am super excited for the next few weeks to actually use up ALL the fruits and vegetable in the fridge. Cleaning the juicer, mmmm not so much.

Current weight: 103 kgs (227 lbs)
Total Gain so far: 13 kgs (28 lbs)

Ok, so 2 kgs for a whole month is not tooooo bad. Considering I have had some reeeally naughty days. Also, still sick (I would go to the doctor, if it were more than a stupid stuffy nose). The weather is still terrible, Spring just started, it can only get better from here? Ugh. Excuses.

I can do better!

Breakfast:

Lunch:

Dinner:

Snacks:

Hummus is also going to come back into my snack stash, my midwife told me when I first got pregnant that hummus is bad because it is a breeding ground for bacteria or soooomething. But you know what, I still eat ham from the deli and a whole bunch of other things I am not supposed to. SOOO I welcome that healthy snack (with carrot sticks) back. YAY!!! I missed it so much. And just to keep it on the safer side, me and Grace devour a little pottle in a day or two!