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Cardboard Christmas Tree

Have you ever had a weekend that began like this? It doesn’t bode well for fun and games, does it? The good news is that we’re now the proud owners (and, let’s not forget–makers!) of new bedroom dressers, and the bad news is that it was at the expense of being holed up in the [...]

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Bubble Paint Recipe

The bubble recipe I used in yesterday’s post didn’t live up to my expectations, so I went back to the drawing board (paint and soap laboratory?) and came up with something that creates big, rewarding bubbles that are easy to pull prints off of. While this worked for me, feel free to experiment with your [...]

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Bubble Painting

“There are no failures, just experiences and your reactions to them.” Tom Krause, Author and Motivational Speaker What follows is my pitch for attempting the unknown for the sake of having a new experience, and maybe the end result will match your expectations. Or not. Either way, you’ve tried something new. Aren’t these pretty? These [...]

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Raindrop Collage

Saturday was a gorgeous day, and then the rain came pouring down on Sunday. Amidst a full circuit of rainy day activities like treating patients in our tented doctor clinic and practicing gymnastics on the furniture, we conducted art experiments in the rain. A shift in weather can captivate young minds with questions about seasons, [...]

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Improvised Caution Tape

My daughter is FASCINATED by caution tape. It all started about a month ago when we walked past a building that was surround with the stuff, and I was barraged with questions like: Why is there caution tape there? Who can go over there? What happened? How did the fire truck get in the building? [...]

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Tape Play

This is what the breakfast table sometimes turns into in our home. Pancakes, coffee, napkins, and, ahem…tape. Of course, yes, please pass the tape! Tape has been a favorite medium since it arrived in our house a couple months ago, and it’s taken on all kinds of forms since. The colors are incredible, and full [...]

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Advent Calendar

Because my 2.5 year old daughter is thrilled by holidays, I had a hunch that she would enjoy mkaing an activity-based advent calendar. And when we were still going strong after an hour had passed, I silently patted myself on the back. This project is more crafty than our usual process-based happenings, but N got [...]

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Giving Thanks

I started writing these posts just six months ago, and can’t believe how far this site has come. Thank you so very much to each and every one of you who reads this blog. Family, friends, new friends, loyal readers.  It means the world to me. And it delights me to no end when I [...]

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Marbleized Paper

This is Painting Project #3 from last week’s series of painting experiments (Drippy Gravity Painting and Aluminum Foil Painting were #1 and #2), when we dug into three totally different painting projects in one hour.  If you’ve been following me, you most likely know that my projects value process over product, but I can’t help but [...]

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