Outdoor Driveway & Sidewalk Paint: Easy, Pretty, Fun!

Yellow Driveway Paint

A fabulous summer activity.  Actually, we did it on an overcast and slightly chilly Seattle morning and had plenty of fun then as well! The recipe is terribly simple:  1 to 1 cornstarch to water (I actually made it a bit more watered down than that) plus as much food coloring as you desire.  I [...]

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Creating a Living Playhouse: Our Bean Teepee!

Watering in the Teepee

Inspired by a gardening post on Code Name: Mama, we decided to turn a patch of brambles in a far back corner of our yard into a “living playhouse”. Basically, the idea is to build a structure that is made out of, or covered by, plants, which the kids can play in… [...]

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Shootin’ Hoops

Score!

When we moved in to our current house three years ago (this month!), there was a full sized basketball hoop with pole lying in our driveway, decommissioned since the previous owners had moved more than a year before.  With unpacking and twins being born the very next month, that hoop stayed there a looooong while before we finally got [...]

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How to keep 10 kids busy for a LONG TIME (plus yummy granola bar recipe)

Painting with water 4

Last week I hosted a playdate with 10 kids 4 and under.  It went great!  It was an awesome sunny day and my kids were pretty antsy so we headed outside pretty quick.  After awhile I pulled out an old favorite that I haven’t done much with lately — “painting” with water.  It was a [...]

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