Kids Travel Journals
I took little lined books from the dollar store and turned them into travel journals for the kids. The first pages are filled with route pictures that are divided up into mileage segments, which will hopefully be helpful for them to visualize “are we…
A Little Bit of Everything
Tonight I’m sitting at the computer working on a little bit of everything – putting together a few mix cds (two for us, one for the kiddos), finishing up a few little graphics projects I’ve got going, and printing photos to put together a…
Scrapbooking is Hell
I’m not a fan of scrap-booking. Even though I like a lot of other types of crafts I find putting together scrapbooks to be tedious and boring – I just don’t have the patience to mess around with different backgrounds and fonts and stickers…
Baking Soda and Vinegar Science Fun
We had some fun tonight doing preschooler science – mixing baking soda and colored vinegar to watch the reaction. Here’s how it works: All you need are three ingredients and a few specialized pieces of equipment: baking soda, white vinegar, food coloring, some sort…
Crayola Online Fun
Sometime in the past year when we bought Crayola products they included an access code to use the Crayola Story Studio for six months. I decided to activate the account tonight to play around with it and see what I could do (my code…
Travel Trays
Something that’s always hard for my kids when we’re in the car for a long period of time is having a flat spot on their laps to eat snacks, play with toys or especially color or write on. You can buy special travel trays…
Magazine Cutout Collages
Today we worked on art projects – Viv directed us, first to make collages using images cut from magazines, and second that we should make collages of hands. I followed her instructions faithfully – Domi not so much. We each made a collage: Domi’s…
Find It Jars
My daughter’s class made find it bottles in school last week. I collected some small items to add to the bottles but spaced it on the due date so they didn’t get used at school – but I thought they’d be a great addition…
Crib to Headboard Transformation Complete
Finally, after I started this project forever ago, I’m done with my drop-side crib to headboard transformation! Here’s what our bedroom and bed looked like before: Nice college-style bedroom. Note the absolute lack of design elements. Here’s what it looks like now: Oh my…
The Headboard Is Almost Finished
Today was beautiful here, if a bit chilly for spring, and I took advantage of the nice weather to work on a few of my ongoing projects. I thinned the stand of bamboo some more and then stripped the pruned canes so that now…
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