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Essential Oils for Bedtime: Bedtime/ Sleepy Spray Recipe with Free Printables

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One of the first ways I started using my oils was to help me and my boys fall asleep. I truly believe in the power of lavender to help at bedtime! I originally put a few drops behind our ears and on the back of our necks but now I have made a bedtime spray. This spray works great and easier to use!

I made a couple different labels for the bottle so you can use them! My boys like the Monster Be Gone Label!

CLICK HERE FOR: Free Printable Bottle Labels. Bedtime, Sweet Dreams, Monster Be Gone.

Ingredients

Small Spray Bottle (4 0z)
Distilled Water
1 1/2 Tbl Witch Hazel or vodka
6-10 Drops Various Essential Oils

Directions:

Fill the bottle with water and the witch hazel into the spray bottle and shake. The witch hazel will help the essential oils to disperse evenly and not settle at the bottom.
Add your Essential Oils and shake gently.
Shake before each use.
Spray the air, bed, pillow, sheets, windows, favorite stuffed animal…

For my spray blend I usually do 10 drops of Lavender but there are so many blends you can make! Here are 2 popular blends.

Essential Oil Blend Recipes for bedtime spray:

Recipe 1:

Geranium 3 drops
Lavender 3 drops

Recipe 2:

Lavender 3 drops
Wild Orange 3 drops
Chamomile 2 drops (optional)

Other Oils Good for Sleep/Relaxing:

Clary Sage-Relieves stress, helps balance hormones, promotes restful night’s sleep.
Bergamot-Helps to relieve anxiousness & balance emotions.
Roman Chamomile-Calms your stomach & nerves-especially effective in children.
Frankincense-Promotes calmness, relaxation & deep breathing for staying healthy.

What’s Your favorite essential oils to use for bedtime or bedtime spray recipe?

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose,treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Check out my other DIY post to find out what other products you can be making in your home to save money and reduce your exposure to chemicals.

Naturally Sweet Easter with YumEarth Candy!

Blog, DIY, Holiday Printables, Printables, Product Reviews, Reviews

Did you know YumEarth is the #1 organic candy company in the US? I love YumEarth because they are made with organic and natural ingredients, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, and none of the major allergens, such as gluten, nuts and dairy. Also, all their products taste great!

I am making this Easter Naturally Sweeter with YumEarth Candy and I hope that many others do too! They are a much better option compared to regular candy because they are organic and are safe for most people with food allergies.

How I am using YumEarth This Easter:

Fill Plastic Eggs. You will need Jumbo size plastic eggs to fit the Gummy Bears and Sour Beans packages.
Easter lollipops with cute covers
Decorating my Easter desserts with YumEarth Sour Beans

Lollipop Covers:

I made these super cute Lollipop Covers (Free Printable for you!) that will fit the YumEarth Organic Pops.

Free Printable Easter Lollipop Covers from rays of bliss.

Directions:

Print Lollipop Covers
Cut Out
Fold middle and ends
Hole Punch with 1/8″ hole puncher or poke a hole in cover
Push Lollipop Stick through both holes
Tape the bottom of cover down using tape on the outside or double sided tape on the inside

Cute Easter Gift Idea:

Steps to make Lollipop Arrangement:

Decorate Cupcakes with Sour Beans instead of traditional Jelly Beans.

I made a Gluten Free yellow cupcake with vanilla icing, crushed graham crackers for sand, green coconut flakes for grass, and toped with YumEarth Sour Beans for the Easter eggs.

What ways do you plan on using YumEarth Candy this Easter?

Connect: You can connect with YumEarth on Facebook and follow them on Twitter and Pinterest.

Buy it: You can purchase YumEarth on Amazon or in stores nationwide. Find where to buy YumEarth products in time for Easter here.

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I received the products mentioned above for free. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Lego Ninjago Party Favor Ideas

Blog, DIY, Party Ideas

For the favor bags I wanted to include a couple of DIY crafts. I decided to go with a lego figure crayon and a lego block soap! They were a huge hit and super easy to make!

I used a snack baggie for my favors and stapled on a Lego Ninjago Thank You for Coming Printable.

Here is the Printable with 4 per page for FREE:

Free Printable Lego Ninjago Party Favor Label

You will need to buy the molds to make these party favors. You can also make candy figures with them!

I purchased my silicon molds from Amazon. (This is an affiliate link.)

Lego Minfigure Crayon

These were so easy to make! It took one crayon (wax) per minifigure mold and about 3 crayons for block mold.

Remove wrapper from crayon. (You can soak in water for 10 minutes to make removal easier.)
Break crayons into small pieces to fit into mold.
You will need to sit your silicon mold onto a baking sheet to make it easy put in and remove from oven.
Bake them in the oven at 225° degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Remove carefully from oven to avoid liquid crayon spilling out.
Let your crayons harden by either cooling down at room temperature or put them in the freezer for about 10 minutes. (I am impatient so I went with freezer option)

Lego Blocks Soap

These were a little more work then the crayons but still super easy! You will need to make a trip to your crafty store and buy: Clear glycerince soap base, special coloring for soap, and optional special glitter or fragrance for soap.

Cut soap base into small squares. I did my soaps in 4 batches.
Put first batch into microwave safe measuring cup.
Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Then 10 seconds intervals until completely melted.
Stir in the color imeditely after removing from microvave. DO NOT WAIT or soap will begin to harden inside cup.
- Blue 6 drops,
- Red 12 drops
- Yellow 3 drops
- Green= 3 drops Yellow + 6 drops Blue
Optional *Stir in a few drops of fragrance and glitter. (I used a few drops of Lavender essential oil.)
Pour very carefully into molds.
- To help remove air bubbles mist the top of the soaps with alcohol in a spray bottle.
Let the soap sit 30 minutes- 1 hour or until completely cool
- I moved mine to the freezer for about 10-15 minutes to speed this up.
Once cooled gently press the molds and the soaps will pop right out!

The boys wanted some for their restroom of course. They really look awesome!

For the favor bags I added little labels to the soap and crayons. I simple cut up cardstock paper, hand wrote, “Lego Crayon” and “Lego Soap” and tied it on with ribbon. I wanted to make sure everyone knew it was not candy!

You can check out my other DIY Lego Ninjago Post:

DIY LEGO NINJAGO PARTY with Free Printables

Be sure to check out my other DIY party ideas!

DIY LEGO NINJAGO PARTY with Free Printables

Blog, DIY, Kids Printables, Party Ideas, Party Printables, Printables

My son’s 7th birthday party was so much fun! We had it at a martial arts academy and the kids got to be ninjas for 2 hours and bonus they kept the kids entertained the entire time! I had several DIY crafts for this party! I really loved how this party turned out and all the guest loved the food and decorations!

I made so many things I will be posting as a series to share all the projects I did! But here is list of everything I will be sharing!

DIY Party List:

invitations
party signs
3 large lego blocks for decoration
favor bags
lego block soap (for favor bags)
lego minifigure crayons (for favor bags)
easy ninja headband
rice crispy sushi treats
serpent veggie snake
Gluten Free Cookie Cake

Lego Ninjago Invitations:

I made this invite to print 2 per page ( I use greeting card/ card stock paper). I have photoshop so I added different ninja fonts to the invite but you can add text by using the free version of PicMonkey and use the Shojumaru Font.

EXAMPLE:

DOWNLOAD

JPG FILE HERE >> LEGO NINJAGO INVITAION FREE PRINTABLE <<

PDF FILE HERE >>LEGO-NINJAGO-INVITAION-FREE-PRINTABLE <<

Save picture as jpg or pdf file and open in a editor program to add text.

Lego Ninjago Party Signs:

I made 4 of these party signs. I printed them on card stock paper, then cut and hot glued onto a skewer (toothpicks work too). I like to use balloon weights to stick the signs in to. You can add helium balloons if you want. I did not this time.

I used PicMonkey to make the signs. You will select: Design- square. Add your Shojumaru Font. You can do one with Age and one with “Happy Birthday NAME”. I also selected the Frame on the sidebar to add add a simple edge. I did 20 thickness black and a 15 thickness red for the frame.

Large Lego Blocks Decorations:

You will need rectangle boxes, solid colored wrapping paper, toilet paper or paper towel rolls, scissors, tape and glue or hot glue gun.

Wrap rectangle box in colored wrapping paper. I wanted to use 3 different colors but Dollar General only had Yellow. I think it still looked awesome! I used tissue paper boxes but Capri Sun boxes work great too.

Cut your paper towel roll to be about 2-2 1/2 inches high. I only did 3 boxes so I needed 10 of these. 6 for top and 2 each for bottom boxes.

Wrap the 2 inch pieces as best as you can. You can fold wrapping paper in side the tubes bottom edge, that seemed to help some. Mine were not perfect circles, but it still looked great!

You will then attach 2 inch pieces to boxes. I used a hot glue gun and it worked great because none of my top pieces came off.

I did not measure when I glued them down I just eyed it to make it even. If you are a crazy perfectionist then measure away and make those legos perfect!

You can check out my other DIY Lego Ninjago Post:

Lego Ninjago Party Favor Ideas

Be sure to check out my other DIY party ideas!

Ideas for Easy Valentine’s Day Box

Blog, Craft Ideas, DIY, Valentine's Day

I made some easy Valentine’s Day Boxes for my boys this year. I was searching for some ideas and I discovered many Valentine’s Day boxes look very difficult to make! I like EASY! I decided to just use free printables and enhance them!

Use large images or desktop computer wallpaper of your favorite character:

I just printed off some images of Minions from Despicable me. Print, Cut, Glue!

Wrap your box in wrapping paper.
Cut slot on the top.
Print out a few large images, cut out, and glue onto your box.
- I used these two printouts:
- Minion with his arm up: http://www.designbolts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/despicable-me-characters-wallpaper.jpg
- 1 in a Minion: despicable-me-valentine
If you want to add a heart. Be sure to cut off the minions thumb and then glue on top of the heart. This makes it look like he’s holding it.
- Here is the heart printout if you want to use it. HERE: Para Tu Despicable Me Heart
I added a cut up toilet paper roll tube wrapped in foil for the goggles.

Here is a list of Free Despicable Me Minions Valentines:

Use Free Printable Face Mask:

There are a ton of free printable mask and you can use for your Valentine’s Day Box! I made a fox box for my “Fox Song” Loving son!

Wrap box in construction paper,you can use gift wrap if you prefer.
Cut slot out on the top.
Print this free printable fox mask, from Bambinis.
Use this body holding a sign. Here’s the Free Printable:
- Fox Body for Valentine’s Day Box
Cut and glue.
Draw in eyes on the mask. I also suggest leaving that white section under the nose. Just cut straight across to connect the mouth.

I think it turned out pretty cute and most importantly my son loved it! He will also be handing out What Does the Fox Say Valentine’s Day Cards! Free Printable Here.

If you don’t want to do a fox, here are few other links toother mask you may wnat to use for your box:

There you go an Easy-Peasy Valentine’s Day Box!

Check out my other Valentine’s Day Printables and Post HERE.

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10 Valentines for Boys! Free Printables

Blog, DIY, For Gifts Printables, Holiday Printables, Kids Printables, Printables, School & Teacher Gifts Printables, Valentine's Day

Valentines Day Cards tend to be a little girly. I have 3 boys so my 6 year old and I searched the web for our favorites! You can tell by our picks what is popular in our house at the moment! I love free printables so all the Valentines in my round up are FREE! Why pay for Valentines when you can print these awesome ones for just the cost of your paper and ink!

Essential Oils for Bedtime: Bedtime/ Sleepy Spray Recipe with Free Printables

CLICK HERE FOR: Free Printable Bottle Labels. Bedtime, Sweet Dreams, Monster Be Gone.

What’s Your favorite essential oils to use for bedtime or bedtime spray recipe?