Thursday, September 8, 2011

Kickin' It with Soccer Fun

Big KicksOur library is great.  The kids love going there.  The only problem is that there's so many toys it's hard to get the kids interested in actually picking out books.  But this week, Drew saw a book with a soccer ball on the cover and that was that.  It came home with us. 

Big Kicks is about Biggie the Bear who is asked to fill in for the soccer team.  Even though he's big, he knows nothing about playing soccer.  He ends up accidentally winning the game and making a bunch of new friends.

I googled looking for a soccer craft or activity to go with our story and saw this at Parents Magazine: 
Um, even if I had been in the mood for some baking (which I'm sorry to say I wasn't), my cupcakes don't come out all round and puffy like that.  So here's my lazy resourceful mom version:

Paper plates, Oreo 100 calorie packs, and chocolate frosting in baggies with the corner cut off.  They LOVED it.  What's not to love? Chocolate and sugar and sugar and chocolate.

You could substitute some black licorice whips for the frosting.  Less mess but also less chocolate. :)

And then of course we played with the soccer ball:
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3 comments:

  1. Hello there.. How awesome.. Love this post...I'm following ya officially from Bassigiraffe thursday blog hop today..Lovely blog you have here.Can't wait to read more.. Hope you can stop by & visit me sometime / follow back.. TY So much.. Have a great week.Marilyn from http://theartsygirlconnection.blogspot.com.. ps: I emailed you regarding a fall crawl to see if you are interested.. Great creativity here. :))

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  3. oh, those cupcakes are seriously almost too cute to eat! :)

    Love this & thanks you so much for sharing on The Sunday Showcase. Hope to see you again this week - the linky is open thru THursday! http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase

    Bern

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