Today we made an edible color wheel. This is probably the third or fourth time over the past six or so years that we have done this activity. It is always a big hit! First we made some frosting.
Or you could just buy a can of white frosting. But not […]
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Kristen
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Today the circus arrived in town. We headed down the street after our circus class today to catch the Barnum & Bailey animals walk from the train cars that they arrived in, to the arena where they will be performing later this week. We waited about an hour. The kids passed […]
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Kristen
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The theme for the Unplugged Project for this week is newspaper. I remembered seeing a structure made out of newspaper and saved the instructions for “some day”. Well today was that some day.
I just so happened to have this past weeks newspapers and the paper leftover from the garage sale. Good thing because this project […]
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Kristen
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Today was the last day for Homeschool Roller skating. My kids have really come to love this monthly activity. And for me it just brings back tons of memories!! Saturdays at the Golden Gate Roller Rink. Waiting for a good song and holding hands while skating. Sometimes even walking over to Laparoe’s Pizza afterwards.
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Kristen
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Yes,there are new, clean plungers from the dollar store. We did some plunger painting today.
I got the end rolls of paper for free from our local newspaper.
Tomorrows To Do List Put laundry away, vacuum, have girls pick up bedroom some, last rollerskating day, possibly drive out to greenhouse for heirloom tomatoes, start new chapter book […]
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Kristen
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As I worked furiously today I sent the girls outside to Marbleize some paper. I have not tried to to this with paint, but this chalk method works well, and is really easy.
Materials you will need: Colored chalks, the brighter the better, craft stick or 2, white paper that does not have a shiny surface-we […]
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Kristen
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OK, pulling these out of my archives!! As this is cleaning my house week. Jake took these pictures a few years ago after he built this.
When Jake was younger he spent a good part of his day building. We had and still have many types of blocks. The large cardboard bricks-which are great for […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kristen
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Sorry again for the lack of updating. I feel like I am running in place lately. So much to do, so little time. I am planing to do a huge Spring cleaning this week with a garage sale planned for Saturday as motivation to clear this place out. So this weeks posts may be […]
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Kristen
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Sorry for the lag-the mundane has taken over. My husband is out of town which adds to the load a bit.
Thursday after preschool and gym classes we went to a climbing class. Molly loves to climb, so this was a real treat for her. She is already planning a trip back with with her […]
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Kristen
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Happy Earth Day! We packed a picnic lunch and headed to a local park after Circus class today to enjoy all the Earth Day festivities that were happening. Live music, booths, food, the usual fare. Only we couldn’t seem to find any of the excitement. So we played with friends and ate our food and […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Kristen
Filed under: Activities, Nature, Outside, photography, recipes | 3 Comments »
