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Everyday Life {Jumping in leaves and applesauce}
Hello and welcome! I hope you enjoy what you read here. If you want to stay up to date sign up for my RSS feed or get my new posts sent to your email or find me on Facebook or Pinterest! It’s finally fall here. Our weather finally got the memo from a month and…
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Corn Art
We’ve been doing (and will be doing more) harvest and fall type art and craft projects with the fall season on us. We’ve done a ton of pumpkin crafts and now that corn is in full harvest we’ve been talking about and doing some corn projects. Corn Art Corn husk picture in black and white…
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Painting with Corn
We had a great sensory and art experience using corn to paint. This is a great fall time activity as corn is fully in season. We started by talking about how corn grows and how to shuck corn. Shucking corn provides many different sensory experiences as well as a life skill lesson. The different textures…
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Everyday Life {Pumpkin Patch}
So this is a bit late, as we went quite a bit ago but I figured I would share our pumpkin patch adventure. We went to a new place that I had heard good things about. They are also a non profit organization that helps kids and their families with terminal or severe illnesses. It…
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The Man With the Yellow Hat Costume
Landon loves Curious George. We had a Curious George birthday party no too long ago (with a man with the yellow hat cake!) and he requests to watch the show almost every time for his tv time. So it was not a surprise when we were talking about Halloween costumes that he said he wanted to be…
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Pumpkin Carving 2012
We carved our pumpkins the night before Halloween. I see all these fantastic carvings on pinterest and wonder how they do it. I’ve never been great at carving pumpkins. We do it every year, and have a great time doing it – they just never look like the ones I see everyone else do. Oh…
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Toilet Paper Tube Painting
Process is much more important than product when children are exploring art. The discoveries they make on their own along the way as well have much more of an impact developmentally than if you direct and model process for them. Painting with “non standard” objects is a great way for children to learn about the…
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I Promise
Today I took the kids to my “old” school (the one I just left teaching for several years to stay at home). I loved going there and seeing all my old colleges and former students. I had waves of hugs and excited looks on the kiddos faces. I loved it. I really do miss it.…
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Happy Halloween!
From our family to yours! Have a safe and happy Halloween!
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Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting
This is a fun and quick pumpkin craft! Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting Large piece of white construction paper Painters tape Orange paint Draw and outline of a pumpkin on your white construction paper. I just “free” handed a pumpkin. Using painters tape cut different shapes to make the face of your jack-o-lantern. Landon insisted on wanting…
