Made some Homemade Play Dough today. Interesting experience. The girls had fun making it, but we were all a little surprised to see that you had to cook it! It was fun to make our own colors. We cheated and used food coloring, but I can see where doing it with natural dyes would be [...]
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Wonder what Giggles, Geetle and I did with those rocks? Well, after we scrubbed them up, we used Sharpie markers to write nice compliments on the smooth surfaces. Then we took a walk and put the rocks around the neighborhood. We hope someone will find the rocks and perhaps give a smile. An idea from [...]
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Check back soon to see what Giggles might be doing with all these shiny shiny rocks! You know how crafty that girl is. Could be nearly anything.
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We play a little game in the car that the kids all like, its called “3 Things”. I give the kids a category and tell them to name 3 things that fit in that category. Its easy to adjust for their different ages and abilities. And I am amazed at all the things they know; [...]
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Did you know that Home Depot and Lowe’s both offer FREE Woodworking workshops for kids? Its true…and they are a lot of fun! We attended our second one on Saturday and the kids loved it. The projects are small enough to be manageable but large enough to be cool in the kids’ eyes. The directions [...]
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For 8 years I have had paints and brushes available to the kids for (supervised) painting sessions. For 8 years I have chipped dried up paint off my kitchen table, bathroom sink, floors and walls. I have hung up Masterpieces literally dripping with wet paint. I have mopped up spilled paint and rinse water. I [...]
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Check out this cute little bunny and the little carrot I made him for his first Easter! If that had been a real carrot, he would have devoured it in minutes. He really went to town on that carrot! Good thing I added an extra row of stitching to make the seams extra stong! The [...]
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The girls and I made String Baskets today, inspired by this post. We made ours on small drinking cups, which may have been a little small. Having a larger horizontal surface probably would have made it easier to drape and coil the yarn. Oh well, we’ll try that next time. I’ll show you how well [...]
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Inspired by this post, we decided to make Flower Pot Cupcakes today. We were camped out at Mamaw’s watching Baby Corn Cob while his parents moved into their new house. It was a perfect project, since we took the cupcakes over to the new house that afternoon! Plus, it gave us a chance to buy [...]
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so I could give proper credit. I made a quick and simple (and cheap) Valentines Day garland with Scrapbook paper, cut into strips measuring 1.5 x 6 inches. Once the pieces are cut (thanks for the paper cutter you gave me on Xmas 2009, BAGD!) just feed them through your sewing machine. You did know [...]
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