Materials:
Thin flowers or leaves (see note)
Coffee filters
Several heavy books
Instructions:
Open one of the books, and lay the coffee filter on the middle of one page. Arrange your plants on the filter.
Close the book, and place several more books on top. Leave the flowers in the book for five days.
NOTE: If you are a beginner, when [...]
You may be a bit reluctant to let your kids use markers to paint a window mural, but they’ll have so much fun that you’ll let them do it again. Your sliding glass door is the obvious choice for window art, but the possibilities are endless. One of our boys painted a mural on the [...]
Ingredients
2 apples
1 can crescent rolls
Sugar
Cinnamon
1/2 cup orange juice concentrate, thawed
Baking dish
Instructions:
Slice the apples into eight pieces. Cut out the core and seeds. (Most kids will also prefer to peel them. Actually, so do I!) Rinse the apples in water to get rid of the bits of core, seeds, and peel. Put them into a [...]
I took Spanish in high school. And Latin. Then I took French in college. Think I’m smart?! Well, when I got out of college, I moved to Lebanon, where people speak a lot of French. It was very embarrassing when I couldn’t remember how to ask where the bathroom was. I hadn’t learned a thing! [...]
Think how many people, vehicles, objects and animals pass by a house on any given day! This game, called “Yardo” turns all that variety into a lot of fun. It’s played just like the classic game Bingo, but instead of someone calling out letters and numbers, players watch from their yard.
SAFETY NOTE! Make sure [...]
This recipe is limited only by your child’s imagination. In the past, we used a traditional blender to make our smoothies, but one of my boys used his Christmas money to purchase a hand
handheld blender that we all really like because there is less to clean up!
Orange Smoothie
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup vanilla ice [...]
Supplies
1 Can foamy shaving cream
4 ounces of white glue
1 Medium (about 2 quart) size bowl
Foam brush, large paint brush, popsicle stick, or tablespoon
Colored Paper
Optional: Food Coloring, paper snowman accessories
Instructions:
Fill the bowl almost full of shaving cream. Mix in the glue. Use a brush or the back of a spoon to spread the ’snow’ onto [...]
