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Sensory Play: A DIY Shape & Color Sorter
- August 29, 2014
Since birth, babies are wired to explore the world through their five senses. As they grow, from smelling their first flower, to dipping their finger into ketchup and tasting it for the first time, to feeling the texture of laces … read more
Emotional Bullying at School
- August 19, 2014
When we hear the words bullying at school, we think of children threatening each other physically, taking lunch money, knocking down books – -stuff like that. There is another type of bullying, and it’s not new. However, awareness of it … read more
Giant Life Sized Board Games
- March 5, 2014
We have been snowed in this winter more times than I can ever recall. Being stuck inside all day is fun once in a while, but more often than not it ends up with bored, grumpy, and restless mommy and … read more
Homemade Ring Toss
- February 5, 2014
My kids tend to get restless in the winter. When the temperatures drop into the negatives, and there isn’t even any snow to play with, they get bored. Therefore I am constantly helping them to come up with fun ways … read more
Peanut Butter and Jelly Quesadillas
- January 17, 2014
If you have ever lived in the south you know that it rarely snows. When the weather channel predicts even the smallest dusting of snow, it seems that everyone and their brother heads to the store to buy bread and … read more
Home Baked Dog Treats
- January 6, 2014
I bake all the time for my family. Several times a week in fact. So the other day when I was perusing the aisles at Target and I saw dog bone shaped cookie cutters, I had an epiphany. It was … read more
Dry Erase Books
- January 1, 2014
I am all about things my kids can do that are quiet. Loud is fun and good, but quiet is even better. I do my best to come up with things for my older kids to do while my youngest … read more
Snow Dough
- December 25, 2013
All kids love playing with mushy dough. Play dough, clay, putty, whatever it is, my kids love it. My kids also love playing in the snow. Sadly it is still fairly early in our snow season this year so we … read more
Homemade Butter
- December 16, 2013
We are nerdy homeschoolers. That means that we read a lot of books, we ask a lot of questions! and eventually we do a lot of projects and experimenting. My second grader has been working her way through the … read more
Craft Stick Snow Flakes
- December 11, 2013
The winter season is upon us and we are busy making as many crafts as we can. Now that my kids are old enough to do some crafting we encourage them to make as many Christmas gifts as they can … read more