Tag: fun
Frightening Friday Finds
This week I have seen tons of great crafting and cooking ideas for Halloween, here are a few of my favorites. This time of year everyone needs a recipe for edible fake blood and there’s a great tutorial for it over at Clockwork Lemon. If you’re looking for a non blood related treat then check…
Ghoulish Garlands
The girls and I decided to make some Halloween decorations. Their current obsession with vampires led them to create some crazy vampire families, good and evil, to hang around the house. While they were doing that I grabbed some great printable garlands online from Paper Crave and The Long Thread. Continue Reading ….
Electricity, Electricity
[ad name=”Amazon Toy Banner”] As a homeschooling parent, I’m constantly looking for fun and exciting things to do with my girls. Just recently I was introduced to snap circuits. Snap circuits allow you to create real functioning electrical systems without soldering etc… They use snaps, resembling those on a jacket, and snap together. The book…
My First Drop
I made my first drop this morning for The Toy Society. I found out about this group from a blog post over at Design Mom. The Toy Society started out as a street art project in Australia and has spread throughout the world. The idea behind the toy society is to create hand made toys…
Long Walk, Toad Talk
In our area there is an annual toad migration from their homes in parks and residential areas to their breeding ground in a nearby reservoir. During their mating migration these toads need to cross some busy roads and sometimes just don’t make it. An effort was started by local citizens to literally help the toads…
Spring Knitting
This cute reversable bunny/chick toy is from Spud & Chloe. The pattern is free and I was able to knit it up in just a matter of hours. I had intended to intention to give this as an easter gift but a sleepy me left it sitting out after it was knit and the girls…