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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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What's on Crafting a Green World Today?

  • Crafting a Green World
    Three Dozen Free Vintage Dress Patterns - Even without the foundation garments, even without the advanced techniques, even without antique tissue paper patterns with an unreasonable waist to bust r...

Crafty Blogs

  • Project Run and Play
    Tami & Ajaire's Ripley Swimmers - It's the final day of our mini Ripley Week, and again we have two Ripley Swimsuits!Tami of SewSophieLynn sewed this super fun Ripley. She says:I've been a...
  • The Polkadot Chair
    Summer Sunsets Block for Choose Happiness Quilt Along - We are 6 months into the Choose Happiness Quilt along. Read all about this month’s block, Summer Sunsets, and find out how to join the Quilt Along below....
  • flax & twine | craft + diy
    Alternative to I-Cord Knitting – Slip Knot Ties - Do you hate knitting the dreaded I-cord in knitting? I know I do. Recently, I went looking for an alternative to I-cord knitting, because, sometimes, mak...
  • Bear, Dolly and Moi
    homemade taralli, or eating Italian snacks while dreaming of vacations! - This summer we were originally planning on going to Italy(and France of course!),but instead we are staying home,eating Italian snacks and drinking wine,no...
  • EPBOT
    Awesome, Chow! The Ultimate Hamilton Punny Party Menu, Because This Is The Quality Content You're Here For - You and I've been through a lot over the years, so I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I've spent the last week thinking up groan-worthy *Hamilton...
  • smitten kitchen
    whole lemon meringue pie bars - I’ve apparently been wanting to make lemon meringue pie bars for at least eight years, as per my decade-plus log of everything I want to cook. Three diff...
  • Serving Pink Lemonade
    Aaronic Priesthood Theme for Young Men - FREE - My son is new to the youth organization at our church. He and his quorum have set a goal to memorize the new Aaronic Priesthood theme for the Young Men. T...
  • Into The Craft
    Samhain - Well, we always do our best to fit it all in, don't we? Happy New Year, everyone.
  • angry chicken
    I find this more amusing than my kids do - I made this block (you can see all the sides in this little video) because I was getting sick of nagging and sick of saying the same thing every day to my ...

Homeschool Blogs

  • The Daring English Teacher
    5 Ways to Incorporate Social Justice into the Classroom - [image: 5 Ways to Incorporate Social Justice into the Classroom] Social justice is necessary to weave into the English curriculum because it allows student...
  • Why My Daughter Cannot Go to School – Incredible Journey of Giftedness
    We’re Still Here - It’s been awhile since I have posted. We are still here and are doing well. Madison’s Spring semester was a whirlwind. I was driving her between two commun...
  • Eclectic Homeschooling
    Quenching a Child’s Thirst for Learning - Awhile ago I ran into a blog of a public school high school teacher. He was mocking homeschooling and stating that a parent couldn’t possibly know enough ...
  • 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 a...
  • Practical Pages
    New to Homeschooling? - With the Covid-19 pandemic, many families have been doing school-at-home. And with lifestyle changes, many families are now deciding to homeschool their c...
  • Use Resources Wisely
    Tips For Making Bath Bombs With Your Girl Scouts (Virtual Meeting) - Our troop struggled with virtual meetings. A group of 17 girls, with siblings wandering in and out of the room, can be the grounds for chaos under in-perso...
  • Podcast - home | school | life
    Episode 18: The Power of a Plan - In this episode of the Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, we're talking about the power of long-term planning in your homeschool (plus tips on how to actually, ...
  • Math = Love
    Square in Square Puzzle - When looking through my camera roll, I recently found some pictures of a weekly magnetic puzzle that never made it up on the blog this school year. Imagine...
  • mamascout
    journal jam :: the pandemic edition - This summer I am offering a ten-week session of Journal Jam and am so excited! I have offered this lab many summers over the last decade and every year,...
  • Ordinary Life Magic
    - Amidst The Great Quarantine of 2020 Madd and I had a need for adventure. So we loaded up a big, cushy mat into the back of the truck, tossed in sheets and ...
  • smART Class
    Painting with coffee! Baby bobcat - Here is a super fun drawing activity you can paint with instant coffee! Materials: You will need some instant coffee, paint brush, water, sharpie 1. put t...
  • Charlotte Mason in Santa Monica
    Almost 7 Weeks of Quarantine - How have we been quarantined for almost 7 weeks? Working from home: Today, I updated my school’s website, checked into my Google Classroom, communicated wi...
  • angelicscalliwags
    Shut-In: Political Party Speeches - This has to be my personal favourite activity so far. Everyone joined in with such gusto (even Thomas), it wasContinue Reading The post Shut-In: Politica...
  • The Helpful Garden
    Montessori Botany - Seeds - *MONTESSORI EARLY CHILDHOOD BOTANY - SEEDS STUDY PART I* Children simply adore the study of seeds. Nothing speaks to energy and new growth quite like a s...
  • Navigating By Joy
    How to Homeschool – A Few Ideas From Our 10 Years’ Experience - With the whole world suddenly homeschooling thanks to Covid-19, a few people have asked me to to share my experiences from our family’s 10 years’ homesch...
  • I Capture the Rowhouse
    Why You Shouldn’t Use Acellus (among others) - Psst… I know I’m not around here very often. Mushroom and BalletBoy are working their way through homeschooling high school with some live online courses, ...
  • For Love of Education
    O5: Encountering Evil- Student Response - All questions are from Oyster Academy. Do you think that optimism or pessimism is a more useful emotion/perspective in the world? How would Wiesel respond ...
  • All Things Beautiful
    Under Construction - This blog is in the process of being restructured. I am sorry for your inconvenience.
  • Toys As Tools Educational Toy Reviews
    Jenn Choi, Parent Advocate - It has been a pleasure to serve parents and professionals seeking to improve the lives of children through the use of toys and tools. This last post on ...
  • Practical Pedagogs
    Confronting the Hard Questions: Gifted and Mental Health - I have been writing this post in my head for weeks, with my initial thoughts clustered around giftedness and anxiety. It was fueled by some recent interact...
  • The Magic Onions
    Eco-living On A Budget - We all know that many of the hazardous chemicals in conventional cleaning products are often carcinogens, neurotoxins, mutagens, teratogens, or endocrine d...
  • TAD Town
    Happy Holidays - [image: Are you_ Book a trip at www.reallygreatsite.com.]
  • Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational
    PLACE VALUE (cater)'PILLARS - This activity has been rattling around in my brain for months. And thanks to a rather lengthy hiatus from blogging, that's where it stayed. Until now. Hel...
  • Mt. Hope Chronicles
    Go Back and Look - [image: Look @ Mt. Hope Chronicles] Pay attention.
  • Blue House School - Homeschooling one sweet girl!
    Growing Girls Scouting Helpers Sale!! - All Growing Girls Scouting Helpers are 20% off, plus an extra 5% off when you use the code: BTSFRESH, August 1-2 only as part of the Teachers Pay Teacher...
  • Teaching from a Tackle Box
    DIY Montessori Sensorial Basics - This is my original Teaching from a Tackle Box design for the Montessori Sensorial Basics. I organized all the basic materials for the senses into two ...
  • E is for Explore!
    Rotation Tessellation - Start with a square. Cut the top and add to the right (90 degrees). Cut the bottom and add to the left (90 degrees). Trace your design on paper and *rotat...

Blogs on Random Subjects Because I'm a Random Person

  • Atomic Redhead
    Summertime Farmers Market Outing - Last week I finally went out of the house. Patrick and I have been trying to focus more on zero waste and buying locally, which means farmers markets are a...
  • Crafts for the Apocalypse
    Tips for the Ice Cream in a Bag! - You can add chocolate powder into the milk, vanilla and sugar (If you do this add extra sugar)! The ice mixture gets super cold! This not only freezes your...
  • Letters to Creationists
    “Disciple Science” Videos and Podcast on Integrating Faith and Science - This is to call attention to a new organization which is making useful contributions to the faith-science dialog. “Disciple Science” is a crowd-funded nonp...
  • OtherHand
    The Arcadia “Dry Run”, (June 1929) - Prior to Michelson beginning construction of his Irvine Ranch evacuated tube late in 1929, he performed a test of the proposed Irvine Ranch apparatus on a ...

Popular Posts

  • Here's Every National Park Junior Ranger Badge You Can Earn By Mail
    It's been four years since the kids first discovered the Junior Ranger program at Badlands National Park , and thus began their obsessio...
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    At any given moment, I have on the back burner easily two dozen projects that are kid-centric, just waiting for a willing kid or two to come...
  • Nightmare before Christmas before Labor Day
    So yes, yes, Matt and I made up (It's kind of the best part, right?...ahem), and he and the girls are off having lunch at China Buffet...
  • Upcycle Your Crayons!: How to Make New Crayons from Old Crayons
    When I was researching melted crayon tutorials for my last post on Crayon Crayonis, I realized, "Hey! Everybody else does it wrong!&quo...
  • Our DIY Aerial Silks Rig
    For playing such a large part in our daily lives, this DIY aerial silks rig of ours is something that I haven't really shared as such ye...
  • Cornstarch Glue, and Valentines, Too
    Have I spoken to you of my famous daughter, spokesgirl for the line of bulk cornstarch for sale at Kodo Kids ? I traded them usage of the p...
  • Tie-Dyed Socks on our Feet
    Nobody, and I mean nobody, matches socks around here. A giant hamper of clean socks lives in the closet. When Matt and I need clean socks,...
  • The Rainbow Cake Bandwagon
    In my family's Arkansas kitchen, with its big dishwasher and pantry chock-full of things we don't have at home and a 60-year collect...
  • That Time that I was Accidentally Friends with a White Supremacist
    So you guys, here's a thing that's happened this summer: I'm part of this super low-key homeschool group in my town--for th...
  • Willow and Sydney and the Oobleck
    After spending a goodly amount of time exploring common, everyday non-Newtonian fluids , the next step is CLEARLY to make oobleck. Oobleck...

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