This ancient recipe is so easy and delicious we had to pass it along. In Lebanon it is called lab’-nee, and it’s often served for breakfast on pita bread. It also is delicious spread on bread with cucumbers and/or tomatoes. And then you can put olives with it…The other cool thing about making this cream [...]
Supplies:
Paint swatches
Objects in nature
Instructions:
Get an assortment of color swatches from the paint department, and head outside. Try to match the colors on the card to something you find outside! Work as a team, or have a competition. It’s not so easy as it looks. We never could find anything to match the [...]
Cleaning is always more fun when it is done together, and summer is still a fine time to get Spring cleaning done. Choose a major task in your house, and enlist your children’s help. Wash the windows, clean out a closet or an attic, wax the car or dig up a flower bed. Try to [...]
Ingredients
1 quart plain popped popcorn
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 stick of butter
1/4 cup corn syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions:
Mix brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, and salt in a microwavable bowl. Cook in the microwave on HIGH until the mixture begins to boil. Cook for about 90 seconds, then take out and mix [...]
Giving my child a boxed mix to make was one of the best things I’ve ever done. The boys learned:
~Following directions.
~To measure.
~Self sufficiency.
~Kitchen safety.
~Creativity. Ever put Butterfingers in your brownies?
~To live through mistakes.
~The joy of [...]
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Supplies:
Bagel
Peanut Butter
Cereal or Birdseed
String
Instructions:
Put the string through the hole in the bagel.
Spread peanut butter onto the bagel.
Stick cereal or birdseed into the peanut butter.
Hang the birdfeeder in a tree. Make sure it is hanging near a branch so the birds can reach it. Only hummingbirds can eat while flying!
Materials:
This is one of the coolest activities we’ve ever done. Our youngest son will sit for a long time and watch the ants as they work.
Sandwich cheese
Sidewalk with a couple of ants on it
Instructions:
Place the piece of cheese beside a crack in the sidewalk. If there is a piece of grass stuck in [...]
Children don’t memorize poems much any more, and it’s a shame. There’s something about the rhythm and meter of words that is not only pleasing to the ear, but soothing to the brain. Poems are fun to recite, too. The other day, I began quoting “I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly”, and [...]
