Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a totally random little way to have some fun with your kids and create something really calming and beautiful (sometimes you need that during this time of year!). At Silk, you just click your mouse and drag, then watch the artwork created. It all looks like silk blowing in the breeze. You…
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Build Your Wild Self!
The New York Zoos and Aquarium and the Wildlife Conservation Society have created a fabulously fun site! Build Your Wild Self lets kids build themselves with all sorts of animal parts, while learning about animals along the way. Customize your creation with your own hair, eyes and features, and then add elephant ears, monarch wings…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Happy Tuesday! We’re less than 6 days away from meeting our little one and I’m feeling awfully tired these days. So today’s list of ways to make the day magical is courtesy of Pinterest! 🙂 These are all crafts and activities that I’ve pinned to my boards lately. Click on the photos to visit the…
Making the Day Magical
My computer is on its last legs and it makes it very hard to blog (I can’t see what I’m typing as I type this!). AND we are going in this afternoon (all 6 of us!) to have an ultrasound and hopefully find out more about our little newcomer. Tomorrow I will hopefully be able…
Five Fun Things
There’s been so much fun stuff catching my eye on the web lately. Here’s some favorites you might like…. 1. Things I want to teach my children everyday: Steph from Modern Parents Messy Kids has a great post and free printable at Bloom… 2. Dress-up wings, courtesy of Little Eco Footprints… 3. And dinosaur wings,…
Just for Ewe
You know I love sheep, and I know some of you share my fondness for the wooly critters. Here’s a round-up of fun sheep projects from around the web. 🙂 Sheep crackers Aren’t these brilliant? This particular recipe is gluten free but you could also use a traditional cracker recipe or use the same idea…
Soapy Fun!
Magical Mama April recommended this post from the ever-fabulous Mind Games blog this morning. How many ways can you possibly find to have fun with bars of soap???? 🙂 I see some clean messes in our future…
30 holiday crafts, activities and goodies for December
What fun! ParentMap Magazine has this assortment of fun things to do this month…. 30 holiday crafts, activities and goodies for December Including our giant ice suncatcher. Head on over and see what strikes your fancy. Weekend assignment Should you choose to accept it… Find a few minutes to do something really nice for yourself. …
Meet Felicity from Thin Air
Have you heard of this sweet month-long online activity? Hello! We’d like you to meet Felicity. She is six and three quarters and has a big imagination. She loves magic tricks and making things with her hands. Felicity comes from a city high up in the clouds called Thin Air. This December, we’re taking her…
Make Some Homemade Do-a-Dot Markers!
I love this idea for homemade do-a-dot markers from Counting Coconuts! I think I’ve seen it before but my brain is a bit like a collander these days and things are constantly new to me again. 😉 These work a little differently than the store-bought kind, but I’m guessing that kids will have at least…