Happy Friday the 13th! In honor of the day we’re doing a little fun thing every hour. First hour — cake for breakfast! 🙂 Have a magical day!
Cake or Death?
Victoria baked her first cake tonight.She decorated it, toowith one of our favorite sayingsthat will make no sense to most peoplebut makes us grin like fools. Tee hee hee.Anybody know the reference???? Alex approves. (We are completely out of the running for "normal" at this point, aren’t we?)(Like we were ever in the running.) 🙂…
Art Jumping!
Ever hear of Art Jumping?Magical Mama Lucy recommended this blogwhere people send in pictures of themselvesjumping for joyin front of art. The pictures make me smileand I know four little kids who would loveto go jumping.Anybody else UP for it? 😉 Happy Thursday!
Things That Make Me Happy
1. Homemade pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting 2. Watching my kids delight at getting to blow out candles on cupcakes again and againwhile we sing "Happy Tuesday to you!"as much as they want(even the big kids) 3. Doing color changing pH experiments with purple cabbage water 4. Doing the toddler version and watching…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
1. Enlist the kids in painting a secret corner. It could be the inside of dresser drawers, a broom closet or the back of the wood shed. Give them a variety of bright colors and brushes. Encourage them to paint pictures, stars, words, flowers, anything that will make that space feel powerful, fun or…
Miss Me?
I’m terribly sorry for my unplanned absence!A certain two year-old pushed some buttons on Saturdayand the internet was no longer.His powers are good.No amount of tech support all weekend could helpand they had to fix things this morning on their end. The good news is I finally have the internet again.The better news is that…
Candy Experiments!
Kids got any leftover Halloween candy yet?Want to use Pixy Stix to test for acids?Do M&M and Skittles chromatography?Make sparks with wintergreen Lifesavers?Head over to this wonderful site for lots of fun experiments!
Twig Looms and Other Fall Projects
Check out this beautiful twig loom all all of the other wonderful fall projectsat Avalon-Arts. Gorgeous!I’m inspired for our next project,though I bet it will be more colorful.I have color-crazy kids. 🙂
Meet the Roundbottoms
Tonight I was taking a bath with Alexwhen Anna came in with a notebook and pencil.She introduced herself as Allison Somebodyand wanted to interview me. I said sure. She asked how many kids I had, so I answered 17. She wanted to know their names.Sure, I told her,There’s Twinkletoes Roundbottom here(Junior really, he’s named after…
Print a 3-D Merlin’s Castle!
Here’s a fun rainy day project.Make a paper castlecomplete with towers, a drawbridge, horsemen, Merlin and Morgana! The author recommends printing on cardstock (especially colored)to make them nicer and sturdier. Elsewhere on the site you can download dragons, griffins, mermaids and more!