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Donna’s Day
Episode Descriptions
Season One
Show 1
Activity: Handmade Gift Wrap
Tips Theme: Welcoming Your Second Baby
Activity: Stained Glass Candle Holders
Food: Italian Pasta
Activity: Fish Prints
Show 2
Activity: Birthday Pennant
Tips Theme: "Lunchbox Surprises"
Activity: Cereal Box Puzzle
Food: Chocolate Roses
Activity: Gooey Goop
Show 3
Activity: Snow globes
Tips Theme: "Waiting"
Activity: Juice Lid Match Game
Food: South American Ropa Viejas
Activity: Rainstick
Show 4
Activity: Sandpaper Crayon Art and Melted Crayon Note Cards
Tips Theme: "Money and Shopping"
Activity: Potato People
Food: East Indian Barfi Fudge
Activity: Novelty Picture Frames
Show 5
Activity: Bees Wax Candles
Tips Theme: "Chores"
Activity: Plastic Bottle Scoops
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Food: Swedish Pancakes and Fruit
Activity: Potato Jewelry
Show 6
Activity: Sand Goop Frames/Fossils
Tips Theme: "Grandparents"
Activity: Reading Caterpillar
Food: British Ribbon Sandwiches
Activity: New Baby One-Piecer Kit
Show 7
Activity: Homemade Ice Cream
Tips Theme: "Travel"
Food: Jewish Hamantashen
Activity: Record Player Art
Show 8
Activity: Painted Glass Picture Frames
Tips Theme: "Healthy Living"
Activity: Curtains to Costumes
Food: Native American Fry Bread
Activity: Apple Cinnamon Dough
Show 9
Activity: Suncatcher Crayon Art
Tips Theme: "Bringing Home Culture"
Activity: Gold Record Award
Food: African Groundnut Stew
Activity: Ping Pong Ball Calendar
Show 10
Activity: Milk Carton Bird Feeder
Tips Theme: "Reading"
Activity: Solar Oven
Food: French Marzipan Potato
Activity: Neighborhood Playmat
Show 11
Activity: Novelty Lampshade Art
Tips Theme: "Mealtime"
Activity: Wacky Bubble Brew
Food: Mideastern Hummus
Activity: Firestarters with Newspaper Twists
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Show 12
Activity: Baking Soda Play Clay
Tips Theme: "Sick Kids"
Activity: Edible Flowers and Herbs
Food: Spanish Tapas
Activity: Salad Spinner Art
Show 13
Activity: Homemade Butter
Tips Theme: "Preserving Memories"
Activity: Ice Candles
Food: Chinese Wonton
Activity: Photo Gift Wrap
Season Two
Show 14
Activity: Printing Bathroom Art
Tips Theme: "TV-Free Activities"
Activity: Plastic Lid Stencils
Food: England: Shepherd's Pie
Activity: Papier Mâchè
Show 15
Activity: Denim Items
Tips Theme: "Eating Mishaps"
Activity: Mancala Game
Food: France: Meringue "Mushrooms"
Activity: Tie-Dye Fabrics
Show 16
Activity: Gelatin Plastic
Tips Theme: "Pet Care"
Activity: Kaleidoscope
Food: Germany: Soft Pretzels
Activity: Paper Making
Show 17
Activity: Wearable Foot Art
Tips Theme: "A-B-Cs"
Activity: Egg Carton Sunflowers
Food: Italy: Margherita Pizza
Activity: Stamping
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Show 18
Activity: Play Clay
Tips Theme: "Watch It Grow"
Activity: Greeting Card Gift Boxes
Food: Japan: The Art of Garnishing
Activity: Puppets
Show 19
Activity: Leaves
Tips Theme: "What, Where & When"
Activity: Scrapbook Covers
Food: USA: Cherry Pie
Activity: Soap-making
Show 20
Activity: Corn Husk Dolls
Tips Theme: "Getting Out the Door"
Activity: Food Box Frames
Food: Mexico: Tamales
Activity: Decorating Flower Pots
Show 21
Activity: Soupy Science
Tips Theme: "Meal Time"
Activity: Water Scope
Food: England: Summer Pudding
Activity: Beading
Show 22
Activity: Collages
Tips Theme: "Grandparents"
Activity: Wallpaper Hats
Food: Thailand: Fresh Spring Rolls
Activity: Candle-making
Show 23
Activity: Decorated Box House
Tips Theme: "Birthday Parties"
Activity: Stuffed Paper People
Food: Italy: Stromboli
Activity: Kite-making
Show 24
Activity: Apple Head Dolls
Tips Theme: "Fishing"
Activity: Accordion Cards
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Food: China: Kung Pao Chicken
Activity: Wind Chimes
Show 25
Activity: Decorating Baby's Place
Tips Theme: "Nutrition"
Activity: Vinyl Records
Food: Orange Pecan Stuffed French Bread
Activity: Plaster Casting
Show 26
Activity: Marbling
Tips Theme: "Cleaning Helpers"
Food: Greece: Spanakopita
Activity: Paper World
Season Three
#301 "Celebrate Birthdays"
Donna offers creative party planning ideas and a new design for piñatas.
Guests will go wild for a dessert of "Burgers and Fries Surprise," and when
the party's over, recycle the decorations into fun and games.
#302 "It's in a Book"
A child's favorite book can come to life with tabletop "story stages." Books
also serve as the inspiration for family message boards. Kids will learn cool
ideas to write and bind their own books, and Donna cooks up healthy fruit
juice gelatin.
#303 "Baby in the House"
Donna demonstrates fun ideas for decorating the nursery and welcoming a
new baby. Simple baby food can be made in your own kitchen. Toddlers will
love the bath-time tips and toys, as well as nightlights made from flashlights
and recycled bottles.
#304 "Healthy Family Living"
From bike decorations and a homemade croquet game to a wacky backyard
obstacle course, Donna inspires the entire family to exercise. Eating can be
healthy fun with clever recipes for fruit soup and yogurt pops. For a main
dish, she prepares fish en papillote, fish baked in parchment paper.
#305 "Making Messes"
Donna's bubble brew and homemade bubble wands delight all ages. Then, she
pours plaster into unique molds to create amazing sculptures. Cool down with
a shaved ice snack and amuse friends with fake spills and crazy concoctions.
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#306 "Making a Garden"
Grow your own pizza garden then use the bounty for a BBQ pizza on the grill.
Donna also helps teach kids about seeds and plant cuttings. Also, learn how to
decorate a garden with personalized stepping stones.
#307 "Celebrations"
Pancakes, socks and CD cases make unique party invitations. Turn recyclables
into a playtime learning computer and a child's desk. Create a fancy fruit tart
from cookies. Donna also jazzes up the table with a place card game and
whimsical centerpieces.
#308 "Broaden Your Horizons"
Donna uses flour instead of hot wax for the Indonesian art of batik. She crafts
whimsical hand puppets to teach the ABCs and turns cereal boxes into
miniature books. Transport your taste buds to the Caribbean with a delectable
chicken dish and learn a Chinese legend while cooking pot stickers.
#309 "Simplicity"
Stir up a unique modeling dough recipe for indoor fun. Using only balloons
and beans, Donna makes great juggling balls. Donna also cooks up delicious
Key Lime Pie and shows what kids can do with just one sheet of paper!
#310 "Building Family Traditions"
Donna mixes up tasty treats for a backyard's feathered friends and grills Greek
kabobs. Budding designers will love turning hardware into eye-catching
jewelry.
#311 "Wild & Wacky Fun"
Phony play food is perfect for a make-believe meal and for learning manners.
Donna builds towering piggy back puppets from recyclables. She bakes
salmon on a cedar plank and transforms the daily newspaper into sensational
sculptures.
#312 "Extended Families"
Donna builds sandcastles that won't wash away and provides creative ideas to
store and display priceless kid art. Treat your dog to special biscuits and string
simple supplies together to build marvelous marionettes.
#313 "Back to Nature"
Nature provides the art supplies when Donna builds a log-cabin-style twig
basket, transforms a can into a friendship planter and nature finds into a sun
catcher. Design a playground for real bugs, and see how hula-hoops and egg
cartons make for great fishing. Donna also turns a spicy-rubbed pork chop
into a Hawaiian luau-style meal on the grill.
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#314 "On the Go"
Bake a "knapsack snack" and pack healthy and tasty travel treats before you
hit the road. Donna shares trip tips and preparations for helping the miles fly
by. After returning home, make boxes of memories from postcards. Learn
how to make and pull homemade taffy.
#315 "Simply Cooking"
Get the family cooking with four recipes that turn simple ingredients into
scrumptious dishes for every occasion. Watch popovers rise, then fill with
crab salad. Donna makes omelets with create-your-own fillings. She cooks up
chicken and dumplings, and grills coconut kabobs and a banana dessert.
#316 "Try, Try, Again"
Donna recycles the daily newspaper into wacky shoes and goes outdoors to
mix up a natural woodland potpourri. She puts a new twist on favorite
traditional foods by preparing French toast roll-ups, stuffed bagels and TexMex quesadillas.
#317 "The Ultimate Potato Show"
Transform the simple potato into handmade paper. Make your own potato
chips in the microwave oven and whip up delicious garlic mashed potatoes.
Donna uses burlap potato sacks to create a new kind of papier mache, then
shapes it into a bonsai tree.
#318 "Running a Household"
Craft windsocks from juice bottles and plastic tablecloths and build fountains
from recycled Styrofoam packing material. Donna bakes a fresh and juicy
apple and berry crisp. She then turns detective by looking for clues and spies
with a milk carton periscope.
#319 "Our Home"
Carpet remnants become unique and trendy area rugs for kids' rooms. Play an
indoor game of hopscotch with carpet sample squares. Decorate with
contemporary looking concrete candleholders. Donna makes comfort food
with a recipe for "Outside-Inside Meatloaf." Make your child the star with
customized nameplates, mobiles and an "All About Me" book.
#320 "Take a Moment"
Flower stems and colorfully painted dried potatoes decorate a variety of
frames. Donna stirs up a pot of her inventive recipe, "Seafood Symphony."
She explores music with a tin can drum, a salt can shaker, clay pot chimes and
more, and then prepares a healthy and fresh vegetable ribbon pasta salad.
#321 "The Ultimate Cooking Show"
Involve the whole family in making pancakes for breakfast. Jazz the flapjacks
up with fresh fruit faces and flavored syrups. Donna makes Thai shrimp and
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noodle soup for lunch. She layers ingredients to create recipes in a jar for gift
giving, and goes outdoors to prepare an exceptional "Mediterranean Seafood
Grill" for dinner.
#322 "Appreciating Family"
Dig into your recycling bin, then dig out from the piles on your desk, with
simple ideas for organizing pencils, paper clips, photos and more. Donna
makes shadow silhouettes, prepares kid-friendly vegetable sushi and molds
glycerin soap into designer shapes.
#323 "Colorful Creations"
Donna creates whimsical whirligigs that move with the wind. She cooks
Italian stuffed vegetables to please picky eaters. Then, she paints canvas drop
cloths into beautiful floor mats and stamps footprints on a "cha-cha-cha"
doormat. She relates the French origins of "Tarte Tatin" while preparing the
mouthwatering apple pastry dish.
#324 "Daily Routines"
Make pop-up greeting cards from recycled deodorant containers. Donna gets
sporty with a tabletop soccer game. Try a chilled Spanish gazpacho soup. Use
crayons to decorate rocks, design coloring book t-shirts and melt and mold
new crayon shapes.
#325 "Ordinary to Extraordinary"
Turn ordinary computer mouse pads into picture frames and flip-flops.
Transform paper plates into puppets. Coat flounder with rainbow-colored
breakfast cereal to make delicious crispy fish. Donna makes incredible
decorative flowers from colorful nylon hosiery and wire.
#326 "Time Out for Time"
Tell time with a plastic bottle "hourglass." Make a pizza-pan teaching clock
and turn an old CD into a working timepiece. Donna bakes French cream
puffs and accessorizes with plastic bottle bangle bracelets. For a surprise kidfriendly lunch, she bakes spider bread while cooking up octopus hot dogs on
the stove.
#327 "No Place Like Home"
Find new life for old window screens by making trendy accessories. Donna
transforms cardboard boxes into marble mazes, uses corn meal in vegetarian
polenta lasagna and creates unique candle holders with foil cooking trays and
wire.
#328 "Practice Makes Perfect"
Build a cactus, a tree and even a cool playhouse with cardboard boxes. Put
new twists on the traditional snack of popcorn. Donna constructs a colorful
and zany indoor/outdoor miniature golf course with recycled cartons and cans.
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#329 "Indoor Gardening Fun"
Donna plants an indoor terrarium in a two-liter plastic bottle and a
"desertarium" in an open dish. Try hydroponic gardening and growing lettuce
and other plants in water. Mix fresh vegetables into "Pasta Tutto Giardino."
#330 "Simply Extraordinary"
Water flows in fountains made from Legos, slate, buckets and terra cotta pots.
Donna dyes coffee filters to create flowers and bugs, and cooks a Persian-style
chicken with melon. Make papier mache bowls, vases and even hats in
minutes using a microwave oven.
#331 "Simple Living"
Donna weaves old fabric, neckties and belts into an unforgettable memory
chair. Discover your genealogy through a cereal box puzzle and a ping pong
ball family puppet show. Bake up quick cinnamon rolls and use day-old rolls
for bread pudding. Make your own bath and body products.
#332 "Your Imagination"
Add whimsy to your garden with clever garden markers, plus fun ideas for
decorating topiary. Creative leashes made with colorful beads help keep track
of eyeglasses. Donna cooks Pad Thai, the national dish of Thailand, paints
vases from recycled jars, and arranges flowers into eye-catching centerpieces.
#333 "Distractions"
Donna makes optical-illusion art and demonstrates innovative ways to create
magnetic photo displays and to personalize a computer screen with artsy
frames. She also prepares a recipe for Japanese vegetable and seafood
tempura.
#334 "Make a Toy"
Make handheld maze games from recycled containers. Old CDs inspire fresh
ideas for creating toy spinners, hovercrafts and even patio lights for an
outdoor party. Donna converts a sponge into a toss toy and builds an airplane
from a potato-chip can to save coins for an upcoming trip. In the kitchen, she
prepares mouthwatering Southwestern dips and chips.
#335 "Sunday Dinner Basics"
The flavors and smells of home cooking bring the family to the table with
great comfort foods, including roast beef, garlic mashed potatoes and gravy.
Donna's delectable sweet finale is a caramelized crème custard.
#336 "Zing into Spring"
Donna "grows" whimsical flowers from six-pack rings and other junk-box
finds. She stuffs international ingredients into "Global Burgers." She shows
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clever egg decorating techniques, bakes traditional Russian Easter Kulich
bread and prepares Paska cheese spread.
#337 "Ultimate Halloween"
A sweat suit serves as the basis for a variety of easy-to-make costumes. She
uses pumpkin in a main dish of "Pumpkin Harvest Cakes" and in an "Amish
Whoopie Pie" dessert. Donna decorates for the holiday with a starched ghost
and graham-cracker haunted house.
#338 "Winter Lights"
Create a warm ambience during the December holidays with a variety of
decorative candles. Give the gift of homemade foods with 24-hour pickles and
sweet chocolate sauce. Donna prepares potato latkes and personalizes gifts
with homemade wrapping paper.
#339 "Winter Fun"
Freeze water into an icy sun catcher to hang from a tree, an ice decanter for
beverages and more. Donna makes ice-cube paints and creates colorful
sculptures from ice and hot glue. In the kitchen, she makes pretzel hearts and
chocolate-dipped spoons and strawberries, and drizzles chocolate into the
shape of a bowl. Design a magic greeting card for someone special.