March 2012

Creative Ways to Spend a Sick Day

How do you get through sick days? With Spring just around the corner, I thought that maybe maybe maybe we would be the lucky ones who made it through winter without getting sick. Wishful thinking! My oldest came down with a fever the other day and we’ve been holed up at home, gathering our energy [...]

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Are Black Markers Really Black? A Chromatography Lesson.

What color is black? Is it one color or many colors combined to “look black”? Black is the absence of all reflective colors, and when the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) are combined in just the right way, they give off the appearance of black. We set off to find out more about [...]

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Sensory Activity: Shredded Paper

If you’re afraid of a mess, I have to warn you up front that this is a messy one. But it’s not a dirty kind of mess and if you stick with me here, you might become a shredded paper convert like me. It all started innocently, and rather boring, enough. It was a bill-paying [...]

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Cooking with Toddlers Made Simple

After sharing some thoughts yesterday on how to invent a recipes with kids (by opening your kitchen up as a lab for experimentation), I thought it might help if I backed up a bit and shared a few tricks that have helped me set the stage for kitchen experimentation. Here are my top four tips on bringing [...]

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How to…Invent a Recipe with Kids

My house smells like pancakes. Which really means that it smells like cooking oil and caramelized sugar. Sort of a happy, greasy smell that has lingered for days. Every afternoon, for the past three days, my 3 year old turns into a kitchen alchemist as she gathers ingredients and invents her own recipes. She is in [...]

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Magical Plastic Bag Experiment

Here’s a fun experiment that won’t take a lot of time, and it’s more than likely that you have all the “ingredients” around the house. I did this with my three and a half year old, and it would be relevant for preschoolers and elementary-age children. The idea that we’re testing here is what will [...]

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10 Simple Ways to Raise Creative Kids

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda I think a lot about what’s involved with raising creative children, and [...]

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