This is a super easy recipe for uncooked finger paint you can make at home.

1/2 cup powder tempra paint—check your local teacher or art supply store.( If you are in the Columbus area check out Star Beacon.)

2 Tablespoons liquid starch

1 teaspoon liquid dish detergent —oops I am pretty sure I used 1 Tablespoon!

water to thin out the paint

Mix it all up and thin it out with water to your desired consistancy. You will want it to be a little bit thick.

Shiny  or coated paper holds up best to finger paint. Freezer paper works well too.

It always starts off softly, clean hands, clean paper. But that doesn’t last very long!

Finger painting is so much about the process and not the product!! Usually the finished product of finger painting is ripped paper full of brown, muddied paints. So I was pleasantly surprised by some of Molly’s paintings. Learning when to stop, when enough is enough. The sign of a true artist!

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The grocery stores around here have been having some great prices on fruit-some organic and some not. I try to buy organic whenever possible-which is about 90-95 % of the time. But there are a few things like pineapples and mango that I don’t often see here as an organic choice. But the last few weeks these have been really cheap. So I stocked up and have been making this smoothie over and over again with a few minor changes here and there.

These measurements are just guesses because when it comes to smoothies-I just dump things into my Vita-Mix.

1 to 1 1/2 cups pineapple chunks

1 to 2 mangos

1 frozen banana

a handful of ice

almond milk-enough to make it as thick or thin as you want

a handful of almonds

2 Tablespoons of chia seeds

2 Tablespoons of hemp seeds

dash of cinnamon

This tasted a lot like orange sherbet!  I almost always make green smoothies and adding spinach to this didn’t change the taste too much.   Other additions to this basic mixture that tasted good have been spinach, frozen strawberries, flax seeds and a cut up orange. You can pack tons of nutrition into these smoothies, which is a great start to the day!

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I made this raw potato salad this weekend and it was really good! Definitely tastes better when it’s not ice cold and the dressing does get runny the longer it sits, but it still tasted good a few days later.

RAW POTATO SALAD

2 c diced jicama

1/4 c diced yellow pepper

1/4 c celery

1 T minced fresh rosemary

2 T minced green olives

1/4 avocado, smashed

1/2 red onion thinly sliced

fresh parsley

Now for the dressing:

2 t tahinin

1/4 t ground cumin

1 1/2 T lemon juice

2 T water

2 t parley

1/4 t nama shoyu

1/4 t agave

pinch of chili powder

and more than a pinch of salt

I blend all the dressing ingredients in my Vita-Mix. Dressing should be a little thick as it does thin out after the potato salad is all mixed up.

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