January 2012

Organizing Art Supplies: Day One

This is the first in a new series where I’ll expose my messy spaces to share my process of creating a more beautiful, accesible, and relaxing space for creating. I hit the friend jackpot, and have a new friend, Jillian, who happens to also be a professional organizer! You’ll hear more about her soon! She’s [...]

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Symmetrical Butterfly Prints

When my 1 year old naps, my three and a half year old non-napper and I like to pull out some of our favorite messy materials that don’t normally surface when baby hot-hands is awake. The other day N wanted to paint, and we ended up making butterfly rorschach paintings. BTW, every time I have [...]

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Incredible Growing Gummy Bears

Here’s a fun experiment that hardly takes up any room, isn’t messy, and your kids will love it! Here’s how we landed on this experiment: We stopped at the drug store for baby wipes, and 3.5 year old N bombarded me with five minutes of this… “Mom, stop! You have to see this. Mom, can you [...]

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Tinkering Spaces: Interview with Mariah Bruehl of Playful Learning

Today I’m joined by Mariah Bruehl of Playful Learning, for the second interview in a new series of informative chats that center on designing kid-friendly creativity spaces, or tinkering spaces. If you’re scratching your head because you can’t figure out where to put your children’s art materials, hatching a plan to turn your laundry room [...]

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Kiwi Crate: Hands-on Projects Delivered to Your Home

Have you heard of Kiwi Crate? I’ve had the pleasure of knowing this smart, forward-thinking start-up since its early days, and I can’t tell you how proud I am to be associated with them. I’m a DIY-kind-of-gal, but I also recognize that a lot of my readers don’t have the time to make everything from scratch. [...]

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Architecture as Art

“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.” -Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect and writer We have a basket of blocks that come out every now and [...]

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Science Experiment: The Floating Egg

As I hovered the egg over a jar of water, I asked my 3.5 year old, “Will it sink or float?”and it reminded me of Dave Letterman’s funny sketch, “Will it Float?” Have you seen it? This science experiment is really easy to set up + clean up, and the lesson learned on the density [...]

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Sensory Play with Tapioca Pearls

Have you ever had Boba Tea or Pearl Tea? You know those chewy, soft balls that sink to the bottom of milky tea that you suck up through a fat milkshake straw? The drink originated in Taiwan as a novelty for children, and has since taken the world by storm with bubble tea houses popping [...]

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