Reward Sheet For Sprout

Hello!  Another printable for you!

As you all know, I have a child with Asperger's.  Well he's starting school next week and I went looking for some sort of reward chart.  Unfortunately I couldn't find one that met our needs.

Autistic children do well with short term rewards and a visual schedule.

So I made one for him.

I made a blank PDF file, that you can use a black pen and add the name you need in.

I plan on giving him a dollar a day, and then let him buy a reward on Saturday with the money.

The big reward will probably be a board game of some sort.  I'm going to pick out a game and put the photo in the square at the end.  You can also probably put pictures in the reward squares too.

You can download the file here.

Tortilla Pizzas For Camping!

Went camping this past weekend and we tried something new.

We made Tortilla Pizzas!  My children loved these!  It was easy to pack.  I bought a flat "variety" pack of pepperoni, ham, and salami.  I took one can of mushrooms and a can of pizza sauce, and I bought a pre-shredded package of cheese.

You can freeze both the variety pack and the cheese to throw in your cooler.  You could probably freeze the tortillas, but I wouldn't.

1. Spread your pizza sauce.













2. Put your toppings on.














3.  Put your cheese on, now fold over one half of your tortilla and put some more cheese on before folding over your other side.  This makes it stick together and they are easier to eat.

 4. Now wrap it into a pocket like this and seal your ends really good.

 5. I put names on the tinfoil.  That way, if you have a lot of them - like we did, we knew who's was who's. This works great with a black marker.  Which I always keep in the tote for camping.

 6.  Now, throw these over a low fire.  They only need about 5 minutes a side.   I let them cool down a bit and then we ate right off the tinfoil.  Easy clean up, just throw the tinfoil into the garbage. When you unwrap them, they should look like this.  Yummy Eh?

 7.  How good were they?   Well, check out my son after eating his second one, nothing left but sticky fingers.

You can take whatever kind of toppings you want.  Next time I was thinking of pre-cooking bacon and freezing it too. You can pre-cut veggies and throw them in your cooler as well.  What ever you want on your pizza.

Happy Camping!

Wonderful Dragon Gate!

I absolutely love this gate!  Someone posted it on facebook and I was so in love with it, I had to blog about it.

More like this is taking my mind off the fact that I dropped my son off at Autism Camp this morning and now I am anxiously waiting by the phone for them to call me with any news....

so enjoy this photo! 

March's Ten Activities PDF

I know I have been absent.  My oldest son has been having difficulties and we have been seeing to them.  The time and energy needed has been a lot and I just haven't been able to get to this.

But I'm only one day late!

I am celebrating two things here, Dr. Seuss' Birthday and of course St. Patty's day!

Hope you and your kids enjoy!

March 2012 Activity Sheet

Yummy Home made buns, in 30 minutes!

The boys and I made these yesterday!  They were soooo easy to make and let me tell you, they were so delicious they lasted a whole whopping 10 minutes.  Sprog put jam on them, Sprout had them with butter and jam and DH and I just had them with butter.

I, originally got this recipe off pinterest.  I love Pinterest!

So...I'll share the recipe!

If you go the to the Original blog, Here:  Your Homebased Mom, she has a printable version of this.

1 C plus 2 Tbsp warm water

1/3 C oil

2 Tbsp yeast

1/4 C sugar

1 tsp salt

1 egg

3 1/2 C bread flour (seems to work better but all purpose flour will also work)

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

In your mixer bowl combine the water, oil, yeast and sugar and allow it to rest for 15 minutes.  Using your dough hook, mix in the salt, egg and flour.  Knead with hook until will incorporated and dough is soft and smooth. (Just a few minutes)

Form dough into 12 balls and then place in a greased 9 x 13 pan and allow to rest for 10 minutes.  Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees or until golden brown.

If you want something garlicky for supper, add 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning, 1 teaspoon Garlic.  

I did have photos of the kids making these, but let me tell you!  My kitchen was too messy to post them!  LOL!

Every Child Should have a shovel!

 

Ok, I know!  Shovels aren't cheap!  At least the good ones.  I purchased two shovels for the kids, to match Daddy's new one!  But in my defence, barring anything happening to them, I'm hoping they'll last a few years.

The best part of the shovels is that they have actually done most of the shovelling of the snow in our driveway!  Something I'll have to bribe them to do when they are older of course.

 Sending them outside makes them really tired.  Their little bodies have to use a lot of energy just to keep warm. Let alone the physical stuff they do.

The fresh air is also a bonus.  Unfortunately I find it makes me just as tired as them!


Follow it up with some hot chocolate and a hot bath, pajamas and bed!  Way to spend the night!  LOL

Snow Painting! A Mom's Winter Best Friend!

 Well good morning!  I've decided that this is the best winter activity ever!

Why?  Because I've now had to refill these bottles 4 times in the last two weeks.  The second time I refilled them to the very top!  My children think this is the best thing since sliced bread.

They've spent hours outside creating all kinds of masterpieces.

Even Daddy has gotten in on the action.  Unfortunately I wasn't there with my camera.

This activity did cost me five bucks....went to the dollar store and bought five bottles.  The rest I had on hand.

Water and food colouring.

I've decided that food colouring is my best friend.  I can't wait for the day that it dyes something that it shouldn't though!

Here is the activity sheet for it!
snowpainting activity PDF