Make Easy Salt Dough Ornaments: Part 1
Raise your hand if you’ve made or plan to make salt dough ornaments this season! Yep, I see a lot of you out there. It seems we’re not the only ones, but in case you haven’t committed to this yet,…
Category Kitchen
Flour and Chalk
I’m always looking for ways to support my kids’ thirst for play while I’m trying to get things done around the house. You can find me on the Kiwi Crate Blog today, where I’m talking about a simple mixing experiment using just…
“E” is for Experiment
My bloggy friend Deborah over at Teach Preschool just reached her 20,000th Facebook fan. Can you imagine? TWENTY-THOUSAND! She’s awesome in so many ways, and is especially extraordinary in that she runs a preschool and also finds/makes/squirrels away time to tweet/facebook/blog and…
Painting on Ice Cream
Tools Vanilla Ice Cream Food Coloring. Because I like to keep it natural, my new favorite food coloring is India Tree Liquid Natural Decorating Colors. They’re pricier than supermarket food coloring, but they last a long time, the colors are wonderful,…
Shopping for Mud Pie Kitchen Accessories
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.  — Joseph Conrad Did you know that yesterday was International Mud Day? One of my fondest…
How to Set Up a Mud Pie Kitchen
I filled the big green tub with water and we called it the “sink,” and N got busy making soup. She owned the kitchen right from the start and there was no end to what she wanted to create. The…