Creating a home that's nourishing, creative, and fun through crafts, kids activities, learning activities, and lots of family fun.
Sometimes, all it takes to get a kid interested in writing is a special book to hold their thoughts. My daughter spends a lot of her time at school writing in spiral notebooks or composition books. So, I thought I'd spark her interest at home with ...
I've stumbled across the idea of a paper bag book several times. I've filed it away in the back of my mind as "something I want to make with the girls some time." Now that I'm working on writing with my oldest and we also plan to do some four ...
Poetry can be such a daunting subject. There is verse, structure, rhyme, and meter. There are sonnets, haiku, limericks, and odes. Then there are the metaphors... oh, the metaphors. Where do you begin? These simple handprint poems are a ...
If you were a superhero, what would your super powers be? Would it be invisibility? The ability to fly? Or super strength? I recently asked the girls that very question and had them come up with their own super-secret super hero identity. It was ...
Most of the projects we've done for Halloween have been crafts. We do love crafts, especially holiday crafts. But, I did want to sneak in a little learning with some Halloween Shape Poems. My 2nd grader can get overwhelmed quite easily when it ...
Summer is winding down, but there's still time to bridge that gap between school and vacation with a fun writing project. Some of my favorite writing projects don't include paper at all. With this project, we took a summer toy and turned it into ...
Have you ever tried giving human characteristics to something nonhuman? It's called personification and it's a fun way to get kids hooked on writing. They may not realize it, but they're probably very familiar with personification. It's prevalent in ...
I've got a reluctant writer. I'm sure I'm not alone. Miss First Grader is usually very confident when it comes to school. She loves math and thinks it's fun. She's a voracious reader. But writing... well, she's just not feeling very confident with ...
I'm usually good at coming up with crafts for just about any occasion. The only exception is Father's Day. That one stumps me every time. So when the lovely folks at Martha Stewart Living contacted me and let me know about their printable Dad ...
We love poetry. We own a few kid's poetry books and frequent the poetry section at the library. We've experimented with writing our own poems and illustrating poetry. Recently, I wanted to delve a bit deeper and see how we could be inspired by ...
