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Read & Play: It Looked Like Spilt Milk

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My girls get so excited when we have a “puffy-cloud” day, because those are the best days for finding cool shapes in the clouds. One of our favorite cloud stories is It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. This book is simple, but engaging and was always a favorite in my classroom. When [...]

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Self-Serve Painting

When the girls ask to paint, I try to always say yes. I don’t always have the easel set-up, but they are usually just as happy to paint at the kitchen table. Sometimes they want watercolors, but often they want “real paint,” as Delaney calls it. We use Colorations brand washable tempera paints or BioColor [...]

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Simple Abstract Painted Canvas

An extra canvas + masking tape + acrylic craft paints = fun new rainbow art for Delaney’s room! Delaney said the best part of this project is peeling off the tape after the paint is dry. My favorite part is seeing her brushstrokes in each little space. This particular canvas has exposed staples on the [...]

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Painted Cork Coasters

Hi everyone! Hope you had a lovely weekend. We are in serious summer vacation countdown mode around here! Here’s a simple project we did this weekend with some cork trivets I’ve had forever. You could do this with standard size cork coasters, too – I like that ours are oversized and thick, though, especially with [...]

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