Saving Pennies Project

for Girl Scouts

 

  

 

 

Great idea for the "Saving Pennies Fun Patch"

My daughter is the only Cadette in her group (which consists of 9 girls) so I became a girl scout as well to do special fun patch projects with her, when she is not able to get with her troop. She came up with this idea of "Penny Jars" to give to her troop so they could earn the fun patch also. The idea is to save pennies in the jar for several months. The girls will then come together at one of the meetings with their jars and count the collected pennies. This money will be used to buy their fun patch. Then they can continue to use the jars for other goals...but saving nickels, dimes or even quarters will also work depending on the goal at task.

 

Recycled jars (I used pasta jars)

Stickers ( I used my silhouette to cut vinyl)

Ribbon

Cut a slit on the lid for coins

And there is your Penny Jar...White tissue in jar was to give it a decorative look, but that is optional.

 

 

 

Birthday Fun

My daughter's tradition for her best friend's birthday... every  year we find something fun to fill with all her favorite goodies. We personalized this bucket with cut vinyl using the silhouette machine font sybil green....

My daughter had a birthday party to go to and we had all the stuff but realized we had no bag--no fear, empty box in the pantry, some duct tape and a quick run through on the silhouette for personalization and whooohoo a finished product and a reusable box for the birthday girl too...

BarleyLife

 

Finally...got my barley life.

If you've read "A Fact About Me" then you'll understand why I'm excited. From what I have been told and read, this product is like juicing but without all the fuss. No juicer, washing products, weekly expense...and cleaning. There is about a months worth here of Barley Life and no wasting money on produce going bad... "why not" let's give it a try.

 

 

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Chocolate Strawberries

 

HOW WAS YOUR VALENTINE'S

I made these strawberries for the family...so easy

sm. package of strawberries (approx. 26 pieces)

Chocolate-I use Wilton Candy Melt (found at Wal-Mart, Michaels or Hobby Lobby), it melts easy and stays creamy longer than normal chocolate.

Each bag is 12 oz. and I used about 6 oz. from each  bag (pink and brown)

Melt chocolate according to package.

I wash strawberries the day before so they are fully dried and ready.

Dip strawberries in melted chocolate and place on wax paper to dry. Wax paper helps to prevent chocolate from sticking to your fancy decor...when strawberries are dry (usually about 10 minutes) then strawberries are ready to be moved...if the kids don't eat them first.

Ravens

 

Ravens design my husband drew for our AWESOME soccer team-GO RAVENS