Pokemon and Yogurt: Learning New Things

This month my husband and I decided to start rotating through spending one on one time with the kids. He’s taken each of the boys out to do stuff and I’ve stayed at home and done some craft options. Last week I had my oldest and I printed pokemon crafts. He wasn’t really into the coloring, but he loved the kaleidoscope and Endless card crafts once we figured out how they worked.

Here’s what I printed:

• Pokemon Coloring pages
• More Pokemon Coloring Pages
• Pokemon Adult Coloring Pages
• Pokemon Kaleidoscope Craft
• DIY Pokemon Trading Cards
• Pokemon Color by number
• Design your own pokeballs
• Pokemon Endless Cards

I found a couple of other activities but it looks like my yellow ink might be running out, so those will have to wait.

So far both the boys love them, but they keep falling apart, so I’m getting some double sided tape to see if that works better.

I have also attempted, and succeded, making homemade greek yogurt. Round one was a bust. I tried it in my large instant pot, and I’ve basically decided the only thing it’s good for is an instant pot. Almost every other setting on it doesn’t work correctly, but it was a good deal and I do use it enough to make it worth keeping for the size alone.

Round 2 was in my standard name brand instant pot and it’s all Greek yogurt to me (see what I did there.)

Here’s the recipe I used. But the cliff note versions is:

1. Put a gallon of 2% milk in the instant pot and press yogurt till it says to boil.
2. After 45 minutes switch to saute and stir till milk hits 180.
3. Put pot with milk in an ice bath until milk is 100*.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk 2 T pre-made or store-bought yogurt with cultures with 1/2 c. 100*milk.
5. Dry instant pot bowl and place back in the instant pot.
6. Pour mixture back into the instant pot. Put the lid on and press the yogurt setting.
7. Should auto-set for 8 hours. When it sets, it will count up to 8 hrs.
8. When done, place in the fridge for 8 hours.
9. After cooled, strain to thickness level using a flour towel or cheesecloth and a fine strainer.

The site I used has great pictures and addresses almost every question, so I recommend going there if it’s your first time. But once you do it once successfully, it’s not a difficult process, and it’s way cheaper than buying all your own.

I’m making another round tomorrow, then we’re going to try fro-yo!

So what have you been trying this month? What are your success and failures so far this month?