We recently got our hands on some of these fun Scratch and Sketch books! These super cute books come with a small blurb about each item and a drawing for the kids to copy if they so choose. The pages are black and each book comes with a wooden stylus…
Ever start one of those projects and silently cry “Why, oh why did we do this? If only we could go back in time 10 minutes ago when my kitchen was spotless and I’d just mopped…why???” Then you remember “oh yeah, because my mom brought up gingerbread kits for my…
Each year we make some sort of Christmas Ornaments. This year we decided to try Scupley clay for our ornaments. Supplies: Sculpey clay Rolling Pin Straw (used to poke holes for the ribbon) Cookie cutters (Optional, we cut shapes out of the rolled clay) Ribbon Paint, or we used Sharpie…
I said, this year I ordered some Make your own Advent Candles and Bartholomew’s Passage for our Christmas Advent activities. I have to say that these candles didn’t come with any instructions, so I thought I’d post my pictures, it was really quite easy. Click here to download Printable Advent…
Each year I try to do some sort of fun thing for Advent. This year we’re doing a combination of things. First, I made these cute little numbered ornaments for our Advent activities. Click here to download the Advent Ornaments You simply print and punch out with a 2” circle…
So what’s a trip to France without the Eiffel Tower!?! Of course for this week we learned about the Eiffel Tower and made a small scale replica of the Eiffel Tower using a 3D Puzzle we found. This puzzle was fairly easy to put together. I know people who have…
Did you know that it wasn’t until a French scientist discovered how to make soap inexpensively that everyone began to buy it and use it? Me neither, don’t you just love homeschooling! It gives me a chance to learn all that stuff I didn’t pay attention to when I was…
Today we did one of our lessons from I Can Do All Things Art book. We pulled out all of our “fall paint colors” and filled in the student workpage for the fall leaves. They painted each leaf a different fall color then were asked to combine the colors on…
We made fall leave people last year, and I just had to do it again especially with all of the beautiful colors in our backyard right now! This project is so easy and all the supplies are right outside! (Okay, not the glue and paper, but you know what I…
We made these fun (again with the messy!) Japanese Karesansui Mini-Gardens today. The idea behind the creation of the sand garden was to symbolize nature using natural materials such as stones, sand and gravel. The gravel was raked in order to create the illusion of rippling water. The use of…
