I love this idea from No Time for Flashcards! Brilliant! We’ve mixed up sidewalk paint before and it hasn’t been the biggest hit with any of us, but using balls with it? I love the sounds of it!
Category: neat stuff elsewhere
Easy, Beautiful Suncatchers!
I am in love with this darling idea from tales from the corner house! This is just white glue and bits of glass and plastic baubles. Brilliant and beautiful!
Good Stuff
Here’s a bit of the fun things that have been keeping my browser busy lately… Get Your Craft On has instructions for the most darling faux jewelry shirts. I doubt ours would be this fancy, but I’m sure my kiddos would love to make some! Isn’t this the most fun idea ever?!!!! It’s a rain…
Good Stuff
#1 Here’s a plethora of printable dinner table questions to spark some fun mealtime conversations with your kiddos! #2 Here’s a whole lot of reasons to love the lowly dandelion and why dandelions make the world more magical for children. Here’s a bunch of recipes using the leaves and the flowers for everything from cookies…
All for One and One for All
Looking for ways to help your kids not just get along but support each other? I thought the ideas in this article were really good!
Plastic Bag Flowers!
Look at these adorable oversized flowers made from plastic bags! I’m actually wishing we had more plastic bags so we could make up a bunch. 🙂 Head over to Growing Up Creative to find out how to make your own! Edited to add: The blog seems to have gone down but thanks to the Wayback…
A Few Good Things…
… that have caught my attention lately: Here’s a super simple, inexpensive spray you can make to clean fruits and veggies at home: Susan Sumner, a food scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, developed a solution that is an effective disinfecting procedure to clean those conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables. It is non-toxic and…
Art and Crafts and Sales and Such
Here’s a few of the fabulous things I’ve found online to inspire me, add to the to-do list and even spend a bit of cash on recently… I love this fabulous idea for a family rules sign. I’m not in love with any project that’s described as one of the most tedious projects ever, though,…
What You’re Doing Matters
“…And I have to love you this fiercely: So that you can feel it even after you leave for school, or even while you are asleep, or even after your childhood becomes a memory.” Have you seen this video essay about motherhood for the Mom2.0 Summit? It’s worth the 2 1/2 minutes. 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8K9s7_k3TM] The…
Saltdough Vases and Planters
These are brilliant! These salt dough vases are built around glass containers from the recycling bin, making them waterproof, completely customizable and virtually free. And they’re just too cute. Kids could have a ball doing this! Head on over to Alpha Mom for the instructions. Happy Sunday!