It’s mid-February and we’ve already started with our warm weather. It was 72 degrees today and perfect for doing some painting outside. I’ve been setting aside pieces of book pages, some maps I don’t need, bits of junk mail, and other various bits to eventually put together a kids junk book but I’ve been wanting …
Kids craft project – Collage mini album
There are thousands of uses for the manila folder. I love them! I have a stack of them in my book shelf waiting for me to put them to use. I have several mini albums made from manila folders and when V saw a scrap piece of manila folder left over from a project, she …
Inspired by Bob Ross
My 5 1/2-year-old and I watched a 30 minute painting video by Bob Ross this morning. Actually, I was watching it and she snuck up behind me to see. I pulled her on my lap and we watched in wonder how someone could paint something so vivid in such a short period of time. After …
Valentine sushi
I hope this will be the last post about sushi for a while. This past week I was tasked with making some snacks/treats for a Valentine party in V’s class. The teacher asked for a kind of veggie tray in a Valentine theme. I really looked for ideas on what kind of vegetable I could …
School lunches (part 2) – Sushi
Back when V started pre school a year a half ago, I became pretty interested in learning how other parents pack lunches for their kids. I started looking for the perfect lunch box and foods that a toddler would be interested in. I wrote a post about what lunches worked and what didn’t. Lately I’ve …
