It’s been unseasonably warm around here — check out the flip flops and dress! And the Easter Basket there…well, would you believe it’s for collecting Fall leaves? We don’t have a lot of Fall color yet, but enough leaf beauties…
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…
You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to make an inexpensive DIY light table. Light tables like this are great for preschoolers, as they inspire them with sorting and designing compositions. Light Tables are wonderful for exploring the play of…
Marbleizing paper is a gorgeous craft that will awe even the most jaded maker. As a child, I always wanted to know how to marble paper. Kids and adults adore this magical technique. Today we’re using special inks that really…
“We only think when confronted with a problem.” — John Dewey, American philosopher and educator What do you think about this quote by John Dewey? I spend a lot of my time considering how to set the stage for open-ended…
If you know a little bit about me and my parenting philosophy, you’ll know that I welcome opportunities to get my children into DIY mode. The only way they’re going to learn how to do something is by getting involved,…
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