Canning 101
I’m not going to say that I’m a great at canning. This is only the 3rd time I’ve done it, but as far as I can tell it’s fairly easy as long as you follow directions! And as long as you have a helper… I suggest an adult helper……
Homemade Raspberry Lemonade Recipe
Looking for a cold refreshing summer drink recipe? This is so tasty you’ll want to run out and buy yourself some raspberries and give it a whirl! (Literally…in the blender…you’re going to whirl it.) And wanna hear the best part? It’s super easy! Here are the ingredients. Don’t blink. 3…
Homemade Popcorn
Well, not totally homemade, as in I didn’t grow my own corn. (Not that I didn’t try, our corn was just sad last year…) But I sure as heck popped it without the use of a greasy chemically lined microwaveable bag! Okay, I’ll admit that when it comes to popping…
DIY Pom-Poms
Pom-poms! I remember making tons of little animals and things using pom-poms when I was younger! While I remember it being easy, I actually had to Google how to make them again, but it was as I remembered, super easy! And a great project for kids too! Supplies: Cardboard rectangle…
Expedition Earth – China
Ni Hao! We had so much fun with our Geography Curriculum last week learning about China! Here are some of the fun activities we did for the week: We started off filling in our passport and putting on our flag sticker for China: We learned: Where China is on the…
A-Z Handwriting Worksheets
Welcome to Preschool Kicked Up A Notch! BAM! As we’re going through the Letter of the Week activities, I wanted to add in some more handwriting now that we’ve done all the pre-writing practice, and here they are for you too! Download the A-Z Handwriting Worksheets Each sheet contains some…
Homemade Grape Jelly
Last time I showed you how to make homemade Strawberry Jam, so this week I’ll show you how to make Grape Jelly! We did this at our Keepers Meeting the same night as the jam, and though I prefer the jam, my son loved this so for all you jelly…
Homemade Strawberry Jam
We had our Keepers Meeting tonight and we made our very own homemade strawberry jam! Yum! It was so easy, I thought I’d share the recipe with you all. This is NOT a canning recipe, I’ll cover more of that in a later post, but for this we put the…
Whole Wheat Bready Goodness!
I LOVE the smell of fresh baked bread! And after several attempts at different recipes, my husband has finally perfected it! (Yes, I said my HUSBAND). I’ve tried to make the bread, but let’s just say it doesn’t go so well and leave it at that shall we? The recipe…
Bread Making
Our memory verse this week is John 6:35….Jesus as the bread of life. Since we made butter yesterday, I thought maybe we could make bread today. Now, I think it’s important to note that I’m not the breadmaker in the family, my husband is, and since I only have 1…