Creating a home that's nourishing, creative, and fun through crafts, kids activities, learning activities, and lots of family fun.
We recently discovered a fun gem of a book, Square Cat by Elizabeth Schoonmaker. Square Cat is the story of Eula, a decidedly square-shaped cat. She doesn't like being square and longs to be round like her friends Patsy and Maude. With a ...
After our exploration of worms, I thought it would be fun to do a bit of worm-related artwork. I've been promising the girls some messy art and painting with worms sounded like a fun idea. We didn't actually paint with worms, just a nice pile ...
Since we are learning about birds this week, I thought it would be fun to make some pretty artwork with feathers. Feathers are both beautiful and easy to draw, so I hoped the girls would have a fun experience creating them. Disclosure: There ...
This isn't our first attempt at watercolor resist. We first tried our hand at it with our watercolor resist circles. We keep coming back to this method, because it's fun and the results always look so pretty. This time we decided our ...
Mary, Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bell, And cockleshells, And pretty maids all in a row. Today we decided to make Mary's garden using leftover cardboard from Christmas. I wanted a craft that was bigger in scale ...
When we worked on our The Little House pictures, Lizzie told me that she wanted to learn to make pretty pictures. I took this as a personal challenge to come up with some "art lessons" for her to give her some of the tools needed to produce ...
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We did another item from our Fall Bucket List recently - apple stamping.I set up the project by cutting a couple of apples in half. I cut one lengthwise, so we could get the apple shape. The other I cut crosswise, so we could have circles with the ...
Yes, I did hand Lizzie a glue gun and no, I was not insane at the time.I had been thinking about the idea ever since I read this post by Teacher Tom. I knew Lizzie was capable and I also knew she was careful enough to handle it. I also knew that this ...
To be quite honest, I debated whether or not to post this project because as you'll see, it didn't quite turn out for us. But, as had been the overriding theme during our art week, it was all about the process and not the end product. We ...
