Happy Wednesday! We need magical ideas on more days besides Mondays, right? 😉 That’s my excuse for being a bit of a slug and being so late this week! Here’s a few ways to make some magic with your kiddos this week… 1. Let the kids pick out several yards of clearance fabric in glamorous, funky…
Month: August 2011
Update: Puffy Paint in a Regular Oven
I posted about our puffy paint craft yesterday and several folks asked here and on Facebook if it could be done in a regular oven. I looked online and couldn’t find anybody who knew if it could be done without a microwave, so we did a little experiment ourselves this morning. The answer — yes!…
Easy Puffy Paint!
I’ve seen recipes for homemade puffy paint many times over the years, but I never took the time to make it with the kids until today. What a shame I waited this long! The kids had a blast and developed lots of ways to use it. Even Harry Potter crests and pendants! The original…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
It’s still officially summer time and still rerun season, right? In honor of that (and a current state of pregnant sickness and needing to take it easy for a bit), I’m running a rerun of ways to make the day magical. 🙂 Some of you may know that I’ve been doing these lists for years…
Boxing Day
I won a fabulous outdoor chair recently and it was delivered in a giant cardboard box. I love my chair, but I was also really tickled by how much my children loved the box! Thirteen year-old Victoria claimed it right away, sneaking out to it with a book, a snack and some water before the…
Childhood Doesn’t Wait
Here’s a sweet poem with some important reminders for all of us… Childhood Doesn’t Wait (Author Unknown) I was sitting on a bench while in a nearby mall, When I noticed a young mother with two children who were small. The youngest one was whining, “Pick me up,” I heard him beg but the mother’s…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Monday! We’re back from the wilds of Nebraska and settling back into normal life. It was a fun time but it’s good to be home. I wrote out a list of ten ways to make the day magical while at a science museum in Nebraska last week, but I seem to have accidentally left…
10 Fun Links
It turns out that by the fifth child, I’m a terrible blogger! 😉 Apologies for my lax blogging lately. Hopefully you and your kiddos have been busy making some last minute summer magic of your own. We’ve been busy and I’m keeping up as best as I can with my giant belly. I’m getting rather…