Creating With Kids: 4 Ways That Work For Us

Elsie hard at work on her space mobile

 

Welcome to the August Carnival of Natural Parenting: Creating With Kids

This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared how they make messes and masterpieces with children. Please read to the end to find a [...]

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The Progression of a Project

Car Painting

At Emma’s preschool drop-off the other day, Elsie and Delia walked right past a table set up with paper, cars and paint.  It was sooooo tempting, but alas, not for them, and the were incredibly good at being ushered past it and out the door.  I promised that we could paint with cars when we [...]

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Pasta Dyeing, Beading and Sorting Fun!

Dyed Pasta Drying

Awhile back, this post ran over on The Foster Family Blog as a guest post.  Thank you, Jennifer, for letting me share this with your readers! I thought I’d repost it here, now, so that its here with the rest of my toddler activity bag posts.  Its a fun one!

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Toddler Activity Bags: Playmat fun!

Mini Shower Curtain Playmat

When I was trying to think up some new and interesting activity bags recently, I remembered a couple posts I had seen about shower curtain playmats.  They are so cool!  I first heard about them through Jen (I think?), who had linked over to Filth Wizardry’s excellent how-to post about this.  I still have yet to [...]

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