My Girls Valentine Day Cards

Here are the My Girls Valentine Day Cards; we are going to glue them to a pack of Pop Rocks. I LOVE doing personal V-Day Cards. 

Guess Who?

A few years ago our family went to visit some of my husband family and one of his cousins made this game for her family.  Thought it was very cool and had to do it at Christmas gifts.  Everyone liked it and they came out pretty awesome I think.

1.  Open the box and take the cards out.
2. Measure the cards. I came up with this measurements- Red and Blue are 1.1 inches wide x 1.4 inches tall and the Yellow are 1.4 inches wide x 2 inched tall.  You’ll need to know these measurements for PhotoShop or whatever photo program you have.
3. In PhotoShop I made up a 3 New Blank File with the sizes above ((2) 1.1x1.4 and (1) 1.4x2).  Filled them with the 3 colors, put our names on the bottom and put an already cropped picture above the name, (make sure the name matches the picture, or maybe that would be a new fun game)
4.  Made up some more New Blank Files, I needed 4, I used 2 8x10, 1 5x7 and 1 4x6, you might need more if you have a bigger family than mine.  After you have made up a Red, Blue and Yellow card for everyone you’ll want to make up sheets to be printed.
5. 5 and 6 are the same.  Here are the sheets after I had them printed at Costco. You’ll want to cut each card out and make sure that you cut on the line, if you cut a little on the inside that will be OK but make sure there is no white left or the picture won’t fit in the game slots.

1. So I only did this for my game because I didn’t have enough of the games yellow cards to glue my game card onto.  I wanted the back of the card to have the yellow with the red ? mark.  There are only 24 slot in the game so if you have more people in your family like I do you have 2 choices, you can make up your own yellow question mark back card or just leave it white like I did for my family.  Also I didn’t even think of doing this till I worked on mine. Side Note and this is a big one- ONLY glue backs to the yellow cards.
2. Laminate your cards.  You don’t have to do this but I did since all the families I made these for have little ones laminating the cards will protect the pictures and make them last longer.
3. Make sure you space the cards so that they don’t overlap.
4. What the laminated sheets look like. now cut all the game cards again and make sure you don't cut the cards on the inside or you'll have to laminate again.
5. When you put the Red and Blue cards in the slots put a colored cards that came with the game and your picture together with one side being your family members face and the other side being a question mark.  By doing this it will look better than just having a white back. The reason you don’t glue the red and blue card together before laminating is because if like me you have a big family, you’ll be taking the pictures in and out depending on which family members you want to play.

And there you go, there is a TON of cutting and takes a bit of time.  I spent about 1.5 hours on each game but it was very much worth it and my kids love to play our family Guess Who game.  If you have any questions just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.  Also I was thinking that I MIGHT make these for people for their families if they like, they would just email me their family pictures with names and I can put these together.  The price would be $50.00 per game for 24 people, $1.00 for each additional person.

Puffy Soap

For school child #1 has to do a science fair type project, her teacher told me that since the students have to do this they might as will enter it into the school’s Science Fair, so we are.  A few months ago I found this on Pinterest and we tried it at home and the kids LOVED it so much. So when I heard #1 had to do a science project I wondered what other soaps puff up when you put them in the microwave, I asked #1 if she wanted to do this with other soap and she was all over it. Here are our results of 7 different soaps in #1's words. Also I forgot to take a before picture for 2 of the soaps, but you get the idea seeing half of the bar cooked and the other uncooked side by side.

 

My Variables:

My independent variable or the one thing I plan to change is the different soaps.  My dependent variable or the change I will measure is the puffed up  soaps.  My controlled variables or the thing I will keep the same, are the same minutes that the soap it in the microwave- 1 minute.                                                                                          

My Hypothesis:

The soaps will puff up when I put them in the microwave.

Materials:

7 different kinds of soap

1 Microwave

1 Cutting board

1 knife

7 paper bowls

Procedure Steps:

First- I will get a knife get the 7 soap bars and un-wrap the paper on the 7 soaps and then cut them in half.

Second- I will get 7 paper bowls for each soap bar.

Third- When they are in 7 bowls I will put them in the microwave one at a time for 1 minute each.

Forth- I will measure the puff for each soap.

My Conclusion:

My conclusion is that 6 of the 7 soaps puff.  Some big and some small, 1 soap puff was soft and fell apart, 3 soap puffs were kind of hard, 1 soap puffed medium, burned and was really hard, 1 soap puffed very little and the last soap did not puff and melted. My hypothesis was mostly right all but one of the soaps puffed up.

Caress- it melted all the way, smelled horrible and was smokey. There was no puff to measure.

Yardley- when I took it out it was bubbling, the puff was really hard and burnt. Smoked and smelled really bad. The puff was 1/2 inch tall.

Lever 2000-smelled really good when cooking and puffed up kind of hard and no smoke while cooking. The puff was 3 inches high.

Dial- puff was a medium hard after cooking, looked like orange ice cream after, smelled good and no smoke while cooking. The puff was 2 2/3 inches tall.

Irish Spring-Smelled really good with no smoke while cooking. Puffed up a little hard and didn’t fall apart when I touched it. The puff was 2 3/4 inches tall.

Dove- a little hot to touch, went a little soft and a little puff, no smell or smoke while in the microwave. The puff was 1/4 inch tall.

Ivory- really puffy and felt rubbery, soft and crumbled when I touched it. Smelled OK and did not smoke whole cooking. The puff was 2 3/4 inches tall.