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…
Crayon Resist with Watercolors
I was struggling to come up with a project tonight, surfing Pinterest, when I came across a pin describing using white crayon and watercolor paint. The pin directed me to this post on a site I hadn’t seen before: Alisa Burke – which I’m…
DVD Organizing
My OCD tendencies were in full force tonight as I worked on a system to organize the kids’ DVDs for the car. No picture tonight because really, how boring would that be? The main things I needed were a way to identify which DVDs or CDs…
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…
Birthday Karaoke
We had a little birthday karaoke session tonight – some of the songs we sang were real ones with backing tracks, some were made up on the spot. Here’s a partial list, see if you can tell which ones are which: Happy Birthday, Something…
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