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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
