November 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

Meet our new centerpiece basket: The girls enjoy creating little table centerpieces for dinner each night. They are so proud of their lovely creations! After a few days of trying to meet their requests for vases, fabric, bowls, etc. during dinner prep, I decided to put a bunch of goodies in basket. I went around [...]

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Groovy Gobblers

Remember all those painting tools we played with yesterday? Now we have turkeys! The girls basically did these themselves – I did cut out paper turkey bodies and felt beaks and waddles at their request. Here’s their instructions, more or less…. First step – cut up all your artwork into small pieces and throw them [...]

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A Painting Buffet

Today’s All-You-Can-Create Menu: Various paint brushes Paper (we used finger painting paper) Toothbrushes Bubble wrap (wrapped around a wooden block) Washable tempera paint A large palette (we used a lid from a plastic storage container) Paint Scrapers Paint Bellows Floppy Foam Brushes Paint & Clay Explorer Rollers Textured Foam Paint Rollers Coming tomorrow: We’re cutting-up [...]

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Creative Building with Dado Cubes & Squares

It’s no secret that I’m passionate about open-ended, imaginative, creative toys and products for kids! I thought I would share some photos of the Dado Cubes and Dado Squares in action. These are both great products – colorful, durable, ready for creating all kinds of cool structures. They are even made in the United States! [...]

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AnimaLogic

The girls and I are having a great time playing with the new Animalogic game from Fat Brain Toys. The game comes with 16 wooden animals, a game board, and a book of challenges (with a range of difficulty). The object of the game is to help all the animals cross the river by leaving [...]

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Thankful Poems

Doesn’t Thanksgiving fall at a perfect time? Just when my girls start rattling off their extensive Christmas wish lists, I can pull out some Thanksgiving books and crafts and we can all reflect more deeply about what we are truly thankful for. Gratitude is always a topic of conversation around here, but even more so [...]

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Sweet Scarecrow

Delaney and I spent some time doing an art project together, just the two of us. She loves doing free art exploration, but had been asking to do a “project” for a couple days. I showed her a couple of the projects geared toward Kindergartners and First Graders at Deep Space Sparkle (an awesome kids’ [...]

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