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Mommy Beach Party

Mother Nature decided to gift your daughter with torrential rains and hurricane-strength winds on her birthday–the day you planned to celebrate her special occasion at the beach. Now what?

Instead of drowning your sorrows in pounds of pasta salad and soggy streamers, encourage your daughter turn off the indoor waterworks, and help you transform your home into Mommy Beach.

The party can go on as planned with these simple projects:

INDOOR SAND CASTLES

Ingredients:

1 cup of cornstarch

2 cups of sand

11/2 cups of cold water

1 old pan (Use one that you can sacrifice for this project as you probably won’t want to cook with it again after making this sand dough.)

Directions:

Mix the ingredients together, stirring for about 8 minutes until the sand thickens.

Remove from heat and allow to cool.

When you’re ready to make your sand castle, put a small bit of the sand dough on a paper plate along with a variety of shells, rocks, beads, grass, and small, plastic marine animals.

Mold the sand dough into a castle, and then embellish it with the decorations.

MOMMY BEACH CAKE

Simply bake a cake in a 9 by 13-inch rectangular pan according to the box’s instructions. (Choose your child’s favorite flavor—yellow, caramel, and white cake work best)

Once cooled, turn the cake upside down onto a covered tray or cake board.

Use blue frosting or make your own by adding a few drops of blue food coloring into a container of vanilla frosting.

Frost entire cake.

Combine crushed Nilla Wafers and brown sugar in a bowl, then press mixture onto half of the cake, creating a “beach” and “shoreline.”

Use extra icing to make waves on the ocean half of cake. You can make wave peaks with white frosting or by swirling more icing on the tops of the ready spread blue frosting.

Decorate the cake with plastic palm trees, tiki torches, mini cocktail umbrellas, hula girls, crabs, dolphins, starfish, small action figure surfers and candy “rocks.” You can even make a mini bonfire by cutting a small hole into the cake on the beach side and inserting a votive candle. Once you insert the candle, surround it with candy rocks and pretzel sticks to make it look like a real bonfire.

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About Michele Cheplic

Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism. She spent the next ten years as a television anchor and reporter at various stations throughout the country (from the CBS affiliate in Honolulu to the NBC affiliate in Green Bay). She has won numerous honors including an Emmy Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow awards honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast journalism. In addition, she has received awards from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for her reports on air travel and the Wisconsin Education Association Council for her stories on education. Michele has since left television to concentrate on being a mom and freelance writer.