While we may not be taking many trips right now, we can still travel and explore if we use our imaginations! Before we get going, let’s make some travel diaries to store our memories.
Supplies:
- Cardstock or construction paper
- White copy paper
- Stapler
- Glue stick
- Crayons or colored pencils
Directions:
- The cardstock or construction paper will be the cover. Simply fold it in half to form a book.
- Then take a few pieces of white copy paper (lined paper would work too) and fold the pages in half as well.
- Line paper inside your cover. Put three staple along the creases. If you don’t have a stapler you can also punch holes and use string to tie the journal together.
- Decorate your journal! Write your name, use stickers, color pictures!
Beverly
Room to Bloom: Delivering kid activity kits to your doorstep. Choose from craft projects, outdoor kits, and more—you can even add on a coffee for yourself.
Boston
Saus: While delivery from the menu is only offered in the Boston area, this delicious restaurant also has meal kits! These kits are delivered straight to your door if you live within 30 mins of the city. North Shore deliveries are on Wednesdays.
Boxford
Boxford Community Store: Curbside pickup for family style meals and grocery items. Call ahead to place orders and pay.
Danvers
Cookie Monstah: Offering contactless delivery to Danvers, Middleton, Beverly, Peabody, Salem, Marblehead, Swampscott, Lynn, Lynnfield, Wakefield, Saugus, Reading, Woburn, Stoneham, Burlington, and Melrose.
Gloucester
ToodleLoos!: via Facebook will “shop” for you and deliver to the greater Gloucester Cape Ann area
Hamilton
Community Package Store: Liquor store offering curb side pick up and payment.
Fifteen Walnut Tavern: Restaurant menu available for delivery or takeout. Beer and wine available ONLY for takeout.
Hamilton House of Pizza: Takeout and delivery available Tuesday through Sunday.
Honeycomb: Bakery and coffee shop opened Wednesday through Sunday for pickup. Must order in advance online or by phone.
The Weathervane Tavern: Offering curbside pickup with special takeout menu options.
Lynn
Durum Artisan Fresh Pasta: Purchase fresh pasta and sauces to cook at home as well as prepared food. Offering curbside pickup.
Middleton
Vinum Wine Shop: Offering local same day deliveries.
Peabody
A Mom’s Village: Offering virtual adult exercise classes and kids music classes.
Ramzi’s Roast Beef: Offering delivery, call or order online
Petrillo’s Restaurant: Offering delivery, call to order
Toscana Ristorante: Offering lunch and dinner delivery.
Reading
Everything But the Dog!: Offering curbside pickup and home delivery.
Wenham
Wenham Tea House: Order online for home delivery.
Woburn
Roma’s Bakery and Deli: Offering curbside pickup. They have daily DIY Kits (cupcakes, cookies, breads etc) as well dinner pies, pizza, sandwiches and bakery items.
This one is a bit messy so you may want to take it outside! We are going to make our own chalk paint and create some Earth artwork!
Supplies:
- Paper
- cornflour
- food coloring or paint
- 2 spray bottles
Directions:
- To make the chalk paint mix a cup of cornflour togetehr with a cup of colored water (you can mix some paint into the water or use food coloring). You will want to make one batch of green and one batch of blue. Mix it up good and pour into spray bottle.
- Start spraying your paper! Use both colors to cover your paper.
- Let your masterpiece dry and cut into a circle to create your Earth!
In honor of Earth Day, let’s make some chocolaty dirt cups complete with worms!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups milk
- 1 small box instant chocolate pudding
- 1 package Oreos
- 1 small tub Cool Whip
- Gummy Worms
- Clear cups (preferably)
Directions:
- Place 1/2 a package of Oreos in a Ziploc baggie. If you have more than one cook in the kitchen you can split the cookies into multiple baggies so everyone can participate. Crush cookies up with hands or with a rolling pin. You can leave the cream filling in or scrape it off.
- In a bowl, whisk together the pudding, milk, and about 2/3 – 1 whole tub of Cool Whip. Allow it to set for about 2 minutes to thicken a bit. Stir again.
- In your clear cups, have your little helpers aid you in layering pudding and Oreos until you run out.
- Finally, top it all off with some gummy worms! Refrigerate until you’re ready to eat them!
The Easter bunny is coming THIS weekend! Get ready for a hopping celebration by making your very own bunny ears!
Supplies:
- Construction paper in white and pink
- Scissors
- Glue
- Stapler
Directions:
- Use white and pink construction paper to cut out bunny-ear shapes: two white and two pink, the pink being slightly smaller.
- Glue the pink ears onto the white ears.
- Glue the ears onto a long strip of construction paper, measure to fit your child’s head, and staple the ends together to form a headband.
Easter is just around the corner, time to decorate so a certain bunny knows how to find your house! With just three ingredients you can make these salt dough egg ornaments and let your kids decorate them!
Ingredients for Salt Dough:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1.5 cups warm water
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Combine all of your ingredients and knead for 10 minutes. If your dough is too dry add a little bit more water in and continue to knead.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness that you’d like your salt dough ornament to be.
- Cut out eggs (if you have a cookie cutter great, otherwise just use a knife and do your best!)
- Using a straw, make a hole in the top for where you want to hang your salt dough ornament.
- Bake for 1-2 hours. If your ornaments are still doughy, put back in for another hour. (It will depend on your thickness how long you need to bake for. The thinner ornaments will take less time but thicker may take more).
- Once cool, you can decorate! Use paints, glitter, glue on materials, whatever you have, get creative!
Today let’s make adorable little chicks! We’re sure everyone has done their fair share of painting with brushes and hands, but what about forks?!
Supplies:
- A plastic fork
- Yellow paint
- Googly eyes (or just draw on your own)
- Orange construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Black pen
Directions:
- Dip the back of your fork into yellow paint and print onto a piece of paper or card. Keep adding more and more prints, moving round in a circle to start making your little chick.
- Keep printing with your fork until you have covered a complete circle. Overlap the fork prints to make your chick nice and fluffy.
- Cut a small triangle of orange construction paper and glue in in place for the beak. Then stick on some fun googly eyes. If you don’t have googly eyes you can draw eyes on using your black marker.
- Use your black marker to add on some little legs for your chick and to complete your painting.
It may be tricky to get your hands on a bouquet of flowers these days but you can still make one! Brighten up this spring day with these easy egg carton flowers!
Supplies:
- Paint
- Egg carton
- straws (substitute sticks from outside or pipe cleaners if you don’t have straws)
- Pom poms (substitute acorns, pennies—anything round!)
- Scissors
- Glue
Directions:
- Adults, cut out four containers out of the egg carton. Trim around the edges so that it gives it a rounder shape for the petals of the flower.
- Squirt some paint colors onto a paper plate and have the kids paint their flowers. Use any colors you’d like. If you are using something other than a pom pom for your center, you may want to paint that too.
- After the paint’s dried you can attach the stem of the flower by gluing it to the back.
- Next choose a colored pom pom and glue that to the center of the painted egg carton
- Decide where to display your new flowers!
