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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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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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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Over the weekend I noticed the invasive weed, garlic-mustard in my yard was at its peak Spring form. While on my daily walk I noticed that several other non-American forgers must have noticed this too. The edges of the woods were spotted with Asian people with very large plastic bags filled with […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kristen
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I found 2 packs of Kool-aid in the way back of the cupboard today. I gave Ginger the choice of which flavor she wanted to make to drink and which she wanted to use to make Kool-aid playdough. I’ll give you a hint:
Black cherry for drinking and lemonade for playdough.
I decided to try […]
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Kristen
Filed under: Activities, Crafts, Experiments, Messy, Outside, photography, recipes | 3 Comments »
Molly still isn’t 100%, but tired of lying around and in need of warm sunshine, so we headed outside to work on a jump rope. If you read Family Fun the directions were in this months issue-and it may be worth looking at if my description isn’t very clear. You will need 3/4 inch loops […]
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Kristen
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Today when I walked down to the prairie there were at least 20 of these Goldfinches hanging off of the dead cone flower plants, picking the seeds off the tops of the flower heads. They were so incredibly yellow, and shy. Hence, the blurry photo. I just couldn’t get a good shot. But thought I […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Kristen
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Today as Molly pulled out the bag of felting goodies, I heaved a heavy sigh as my plan was to do some cleaning and not pulling more stuff out or making more of a mess. But of course I begrudgingly consented, sure that I was going to have to be involved in the […]
Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Kristen
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Well they were wrong-it didn’t rain.
It was another beautiful day.
So I didn’t get much done in the house again.
But this evening we did follow the artful parents nature prints idea. I bought some sculpey clay and rolled each block into four balls. Then with various bits and pieces of nature; leaves, sea […]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Kristen
Filed under: 3-D, Activities, Crafts, Nature, Outside, Sculpture, Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
Spring means work. So today I dug in-literally. I spread 90lbs of compost and about 60 lbs. of manure and some organic fertilizer in our vegetable garden today. Then we planted cilantro, arugula, 2 different types of kale, mesclun mix, and 2 other types of lettuce. Off to a good start […]
Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Kristen
Filed under: 3-D, Activities, Crafts, Field Trips, Nature, Outside | 6 Comments »
