February 2012

The Cutest Crayons You Ever Did See {Giveaway}

Isn’t this the cutest lil’ box of crayons you ever set your eyes on? I learned about Melissa of Earth Grown Crayons from a comment she left on my Facebook page, and can I just tell you how happy I am to have found her? Earth Grown Crayons are handmade (amazing, right?!), all natural, eco [...]

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6 Kids Valentines Day Activities

We’ve been crafting up a Valentine’s storm, which mostly means that three-year old N has been collaging all our self-serve bits and bobs of Valentine goodness into a taped-up, glued, and spackled hodge podge of Valentine craziness. In other words, we’ve been having fun, but it’s not something anyone else would likely take inspiration from or worth [...]

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Tinkerlab on Instagram

Hi all! It’s been a rough couple of days with a one year old who’s not afraid to fight sleep. I think she’s teething, but who really knows, and coffee has been getting me through the days. I had big ideas about sharing Valentines projects and more paper bag experiments, but the reality is that [...]

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Paper Bag Museum

In case you missed yesterday’s post, we’re hosting a super fun Paper Bag Creative Challenge that brought over 50 kid-directed paper bag projects together in one spot. Today I’m excited to share our own take on the challenge. This is how our art table looked the other morning. Me and the girls crafting up a paper bag collage storm. [...]

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Creative Challenge 8: Paper Bags

A few weeks ago I put out a call for entrees in our 8th Creative Challenge: Paper Bags, and I’m excited that today is finally here and we get to see what everyone has been working on! The rules of the game are simple: projects should be child-directed, but grown-ups are welcome to join in [...]

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Yeast and Sugar Experiment

I’ve been baking bread just about every day for the past three weeks (nothing too crazy since it’s all done in the bread maker), but last week my 3.5 year old and I got into a discussion about the properties of yeast. We like to tinker and experiment – big surprise, I know — and decided [...]

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Valentine Garland + Some Other Stuff

It’s February! And you know what that means? Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and we get to geek out on hearts, pink, and glitter. I’m over at the Kiwi Crate blog today, sharing this Valentine garland that my three year old and I made together. It’s so simple and turned into an excellent [...]

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