Sometimes on weekends I get desperate for things to do with Lily, that don't require me leaving my chair, or my house. We run around like crazy a lot, and sometimes, I just want to stay home to wash clothes, cook, and pretend I'm one of those wives and moms I saw on TV when I was Lily's age.

So I subscribed to a magazine called Family Fun. It has some easy crafts and projects you can do with your kid. This one I really, really liked. In order to rise to the top of my Really Liked It list, it has to be both easy and something I have all the supplies on hand for. If it's something that would make a cool kid gift, it gets bonus points. It needs to make me feel like Martha Stewart, but require only the skills and effort of maybe The Cable Guy.

This one was all of that. Check it out in the picture. It looks even cooler if you have three different colored sponges. I had two yellow and one green.

Here's how you make it:

Cut each sponge into five long pieces. Put them back "together'' as sponges but with the colors all mixed up. Stack them on top of each other. Then take a piece of yard and just tie across the middle. NOTE: You have to get the sponges a tad wet, for this to work.

Voila. A really sudsy, fun bath sponge.