What Do You Want to Make Today?
Our university’s Division of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service join up each year to put on a program called Farm Friends, which allows “city” kids to see and touch farm animals they might not otherwise get close access to. This is the first year we went, with the Bit’s friends from school, and I […]
Before I was a mom, I was always really resistant to any efforts to feed kids produce and other healthy foods by hiding them in other foods. I figured there was no way kids who learned to eat this way would ever eat vegetables that weren’t hidden, so, even though you were getting the nutrients […]
Affiliate links are included for your convenience. When the Bit was sick the other week, I decided to keep track of all the things we did during that day, just to see how we managed to entertain ourselves and to document just how busy a kid this age can be, even when she’s sick. (As […]
As I mentioned yesterday, as much as the Bit loves every kind of paint, she hasn’t quite gotten the concept of using cake watercolors. She usually plays with the water more than the paint, and when she does get paint on her brush she then dips it in the water instead of putting it on […]
The other day when the Bit was home sick, I encouraged her to do lots of different kinds of art. It didn’t take much encouragement, because she loves to play with markers, paint and stickers. But I thought it would be interesting to document all the different things we did, and I share it in […]
While the Bit was home sick last week and busy playing with something else (I think at this point she was drawing on her white board) I decided it was time to finally dismantle the Valentine’s sensory box and put together one for St. Patrick’s Day. I hadn’t really intended to make this box specifically […]
We’ve now reached the lightning round, because most of these busy bag ideas are super fast, easy and don’t require attribution or even much explanation. To see all the previous busy bag swap ideas posts, check out the links at the bottom of this post. Make Cupcakes These really cute little craft foam cupcakes are […]