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Chemical Free Cleaning!

Do you hate cleaning with harsh chemicals? Do you hate the smell of cleaning products? I know that I do, especially with kids in the house. A lot of times, the chemicals smell awful and they can do more damage to furniture and counters than good.

Well if you hate using harsh smelly chemicals, then E-cloths are for you! E-cloth is a cleaning cloth that you can use with just water. The cloths are made of microfibers and removes over 99% of bacteria.

I got the chance to try the E-cloth Kitchen Pack. This pack included one Kitchen Cloth and one Glass and Polishing Cloth. The Kitchen Cloth has a little non-scratch scrubbing pad on one of the corners. I absolutely love this cloth. It works great for cleaning up a mess created by the kids. And it works great on stubborn, stuck on foods.

I have a 6 year old and a 9 year old and they are always spilling something, especially my super independent 6 year old! Example below! I love letting the kids use the Kitchen Cloth because they don’t have to spray chemicals to clean up their messes.

Clean up was easy with a damp Kitchen Cloth. After using, just rinse it out! These clothes can be washed in the washing machine for up to 300 washes and still work great.

The Glass and Polishing cloth leaves a streak free shine on most surfaces.

I just love that you can use this Kitchen Cloth with just water and it gets rid of messes and bacteria!

You can find more information on E-cloths on their website at http://www.ecloth.com/ecloth-perfect-cleaning-with-just-water.html

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While walking through the Scholastics Book Fair at my oldest son’s school, I stumbled across The Gingerbread Bear book by Robert Dennis and Illustrated by Tammie Lyon.

In the story, a little girl and her mother are baking a gingerbread bear. After daddy goes to work, mom goes into the garden to do some work and the little girl is left to watch after the oven. Out of curiosity, the little girl opens the oven to have a look, and guess what happens? Out jumps the Gingerbread Bear! And away he runs……

Of course, no one can catch him, because after chanting “Run, Run, try if you dare. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Bear!”, he runs away. Throughout the book he runs into different people and animals that think they can catch him. Gingerbread Bear is much to quick for them.

You have to read the book to find out what happens at the end! What a cute little change up to the Gingerbread Man. My boys loved it! The illustrations were awesome!

After we read the book, we decided to make our own Gingerbread Bears, using Sculpey clay and Scribbles paint.

We picked out a brown Sculpey clay, ran it through the clay conditioning machine and then used our gingerbread man cookie cutter to cut them out. After we had them cut out, I used a sharp pick to punch a whole in the top of their heads for ribbon. Then it was time to bake them. I stuck them in the oven for about 13 minutes.
Once they came out of the oven and cooled, We used Ilovetocreate’s Scribbles Fabric Paint (yes, I know it’s fabric paint, but it works on other things too!) to decorate our gingerbread bears!
Once they were dry, they were ready for ribbon and then to be hung on the tree! 🙂 So, go out and pick up this adorable book. The kids are sure to love it! And then go get some Sculpey clay and a gingerbread man cookie cutter and create your own Gingerbread Bear!