Every year, my daughter makes homemade ornaments for our tree and for family and friends. This year, my toddler joined the tradition with the simple
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Simple Ornaments: Have a Ball!
My kids make homemade gifts for family, friends, and teachers. Two years ago, my daughter (age two and a half at the time) made these
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What Do Mayflowers Bring? Pilgrims!
We’ve been reading a lot of Thanksgiving books about feasts and Turkeys and about that perilous Atlantic journey in the Mayflower. My daughter is fascinated
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Pine Cone Turkey
It’s turkey time! I’m a vegetarian but most of the family loves their turkey. Thanksgiving is all about counting our blessings and one of those
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Veteran’s Day
This is a difficult post for me to write. In addition to having been sick the last week, I always have a little trouble putting
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Gone Batty!
I found these toilet paper roll bats on Filth Wizardry (what a great blog name!), via The Crafty Crow. I recommend clicking over to Filth
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Paper Pumpkin Craft
Our home has been completely invaded by pumpkins–real, decorative, and crafted! Here’s my daughter’s latest pumpkin project–a toilet paper roll and construction paper pumpkin that
We’ve been reading about and making our own bats. Here are our songs, finger plays, and jokes about bats for preschoolers and kindergartners. As always,
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Yarn Pumpkin
We made a yarn pumpkin, similar to this yarn egg we made for Easter. This requires some manual dexterity and patience but it is very
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Leaf Spirits
I saw this lovely autumn-themed craft on Twig and Toadstool, a very inspiring place, indeed, and was motivated to make some “leaf spirits” of my