Fun with food

The kid I baby sit isn't really into food unless it is Nutella and bread. But most kids really like fun and cool foods because it changes things up a bit.


 

Girls on Halloween

I babysat two girls(8, and 10)  yesterday and me being not very girly had no idea what to bring so I brought my Little House on The prairie paper dolls (the only other ones I had were George Washington, so you can see what I loved growing up) and the girls had no clue what little house on the prairie was so it was great to show them this and tell them all about it. I didn't think they would enjoy the paper dolls because of all the new technology we have but they loved it and played with them for an hour (which for these girls was a long time)

We then did a Halloween word search and a small little duck craft And then we watched a movie and I got them into their costumes. I watched them for four hours and got paid better than when watching the twins for 6ish hours. 

I promise I'll make a post on getting paid soon. 

-brittney 

Baby Sitting Info

It is always best to have a paper with info on the parents of the kid you are babysitting. Pinterest (which is a Baby Sitters best friend by the way) is full of them but I'll post a couple I like the best on here. On google or Pinterest just type in "Baby Sitter Info Sheet" and they should start popping up

5 year old twins... EEEKKK

One kid is tough.

Two kids are harder.

One 5 year old is tough.

5 year old twins are harder.

So back in 2012 I baby sat my friend's 5 year old twin sisters for about 6ish hours. This was my first time babysitting a non-relative but I agreed because they didn't really have anyone else and they said they would pay me so then of course I was all over itJ. I had truly no idea what was expected of me but I went to the library and checked out a book on babysitting and that is how I got started. After reading a bit of it and looking ideas up online (I can't remember if I used Pinterest at this point, but if I could I probably did) I knew what I was going to do. My mom took me back to the library (I couldn't drive, I was only 14) and I returned the babysitting book and picked up a couple of picture books and a Cat in The Hat book to go with the Cat in The Hat craft I had. Going to their house I had everything planed and was completely ready and everything went super smooth, NOT! We blew through everything I had planned so fast, it was like I blinked and they said “What next Miss Brittney?” and I was searching through my bag and there was nothing left. That was scarier than the Twins. But I had a new plan that always worked with my brother when he was bored. Two words. Movie Marathon. It worked and luckily their mom came home not to long afterwards. The only downside to this was the amount I got paid but that's a story for another post. Here are pictures from the day I babysat the twins. 

This is a fun thing to do, you get crepe paper or TP and you mummy wrap them and they have to break out, both kids loved it.

Making Cherio Necklaces, they got to snack on them the whole time we played games, it was a great and fun!

Cat in The Hat, hat crafts and pip cleaner flowers. The hats were white foam that I cut out and red foam stripes. The Flowers are pipe cleaners and coffee paper thingies... I don't know what they are called.

Pokadot paper plates, I used the bigger nuts or beans (forgive this was two years ago and I wrote nothing down) and we just glued them to the plate I thought it would be boring but they loved getting to work with glue and  making different designs. 

Well, that's all for today's post, I'll do a more recent job soon. Thank you guys!

- Brittney