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Body Tracing

Can you hear the giggles? Put two little girls in the same house for three days and it’s bound to be a slapstick silly ol’ time (with a few tears thrown in for good measure). I’ve wanted to trace my daughter’s body for months now, and every time I bring it up she says “no.” [...]

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Stringing Beads

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”~Brenda Ueland This is a handy little fine motor project to keep around for a rainy day. I’ve also been know to stash a [...]

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Salt and Flour Paint

After experimenting with our new squeeze bottles and using an inordinate amount of paint in the process, I made up a batch of salt and flour paint for more economical squeeze painting. The recipe is simple, non-toxic, and it costs next to nothing to make. Not to mention it’s pretty rewarding to make your own [...]

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Squeezing Paint

I set N up with some paint pots and a large sheet of paper — our favorite way to paint big as of late. After smearing some paint around and taking a few stabs at mixing colors, she asked me for more purple paint. The paint pot wasn’t empty, and the real story ended up [...]

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Sticky Autumn Collage

California has been hit by a heat wave, so staying inside our hot cave of a house is barely an option. Yesterday was full of swimming, a sprinkler run, a trip to the neighbor’s lemonade stand, and hitting a pinata at another neighbor’s house. So cute! Despite the heat, there’s a lot of fall madness [...]

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