Last week my daughter was home from preschool for “summer break,” and I wanted to do some fun, new things with her. We went on her first trip to the museum (didn’t see any art, but that’s for another post), had her first homemade popsicles and made her first gak, among other things. I’ve been […]
An Artful Collaboration
The girl has been waking up much earlier than I’d like this week, and the other morning I guess I drifted off for a minute after she left our room and I didn’t know what she was up to. I asked what she was doing and she said “drawing and reading books.” (There was no […]
Colored Sand Play: An Invitation
If you read any blogs on playing with kids, entertaining kids, Montessori-inspired learning/play and whatnot, you might have heard of the concept of “invitations.” I think I first heard about them reading Play at Home Mom, which is really the site that sucked me down the rabbit hole of creative play. There are some examples […]
Playing with Scarves
I have to admit that this idea is completely stolen from inspired by The Imagination Tree, a blog I love and have probably pinned about half of! Her stuff is a lot of fun, and last week she mentioned that she made a discovery box for her kids that was nothing but different colored cloths […]
The Napping Game
This is a crazy week, which was preceded by another crazy week, so I’m much more focused on work than the fun stuff right now, but I wanted to post a little something today just so I don’t go too long between posts. And cute pictures of the Bit are always fun to share. The […]
Preaching the Gospel According to Craft
Yesterday I spent some time talking to my local MOPS group (which I’ve been a part of since it was founded, basically) about the same things I talk about on this site: crafting with kids, crafting for kids, the importance of creativity and patience and a sense of fun when it comes to doing creative […]
Pompon Sensory/Discovery Activity
After the Easter eggs, which are actually still out (though we haven’t played with them in a week or two), I wasn’t quite sure where I wanted to go with our next sensory/discovery/whatever box. I kind of wanted to do something with colors, or maybe the letter A, or maybe farm animals. Then I saw […]