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All the artsy, messy, fun stuff that me and the little monkeys do all day:

Fused Plastic Bead Suncatchers

Taking Apart Appliances

School Glue Dyed with Acrylic Paints

Rainbow Cake

Painting the Car

Modeling Marzipan

Perfect Paper Snowflakes

Popsicle Stick Star of David and Christmas Tree Ornaments

Shaving Cream Puff Paint

Liquid Watercolor Spray Paint

Rainbow Waffles

S'mores Cupcakes

Five Things Other Than Paper to Paint with Liquid Watercolors

White Chocolate Fondue Sculptures

Egg Carton Color Sorters

Felt Playsets

Homemade Peanut Butter

Play Dough

Tie-Dyed Socks


Beaded Ribbon Necklace

Watercolor Crown

Balancing Butterflies

Cream Cheese Butterfly Snack

Coffee Filter Tie-Dye

Spray Painting with Children

Temporary Flower Art

Paper Dolls

Decoupage with a Group of Children

Snow Paint

Dot Painters
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Crafty Blogs

  • EPBOT
    How To Fix A Warped Pan: John's Bonking PAN-demonium - Wow, apparently a bunch of you have warped pans at home! So by popular request, John's back again to show you how to flatten out those wobbly buggers - an...
  • smitten kitchen
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  • Project Run and Play
    Season 23 Week 3 - Fairytale - And we're on to Week 3! This one is so fun and the designers really had fun with it too! Here is the prompt: Week 3: Fairytale This theme is a child’s dr...
  • Bear, Dolly and Moi
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  • The Polkadot Chair
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  • flax & twine | craft + diy
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  • Serving Pink Lemonade
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  • Into The Craft
    Samhain - Well, we always do our best to fit it all in, don't we? Happy New Year, everyone.
  • angry chicken
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Homeschool Blogs

  • Frontier Dreams
    Crafting On - *The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at...
  • Math = Love
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  • The Daring English Teacher
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  • The Helpful Garden
    Continent Studies - Africa Part 1 - AFRICA ACTIVITIES 1ST INSTALLMENT It has been all hands on deck these past two weeks since we have had our school suspended for COVID-19. Since that time I...
  • Eclectic Homeschooling
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  • angelicscalliwags
    Shut-In: The ‘No Talent’ Talent Show - When I came up with the idea of putting on a talent show, I really did mean a place toContinue Reading The post Shut-In: The ‘No Talent’ Talent Show appe...
  • Navigating By Joy
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  • Practical Pages
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  • Charlotte Mason in Santa Monica
    Should I Continue Having My Child Read To Me Daily? - Your 6 year old can read. You’ve been having him or her read to you aloud daily from a popular series of leveled readers. You’re thinking you could drop th...
  • I Capture the Rowhouse
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  • For Love of Education
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  • All Things Beautiful
    Under Construction - This blog is in the process of being restructured. I am sorry for your inconvenience.
  • Podcast - home | school | life
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  • Use Resources Wisely
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  • Ordinary Life Magic
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  • mamascout
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  • Toys As Tools Educational Toy Reviews
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  • Why My Daughter Cannot Go to School – Incredible Journey of Giftedness
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  • Practical Pedagogs
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  • The Magic Onions
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  • TAD Town
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  • smART Class
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  • Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
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  • Mt. Hope Chronicles
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Blogs on Random Subjects Because I'm a Random Person

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