Color Matching Game for Kids

I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…

Felt Boards for Kids

Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…

Sight Word Memory Match

My daughter’s kindergarten teacher sent us home from Curriculum Night with a list of sight words for the kids to memorize, with the suggestion to “make flash cards or something”. Sight word flash cards sounds extra boring to me, so I decided to make…

Sketching Felt-board Story Ideas

I’m sketching ideas for the felt story board for the kids – these pictures are for ‘Stone Soup’.

Felt-Board for Storytelling

We have a big trip coming up in about 6 weeks and it involves a loooong plane ride, so I’m starting to think about how to entertain the little munchkins while we’re airborne. One thought was to make a small feltboard that I can…

Cleaning Up in the Garden

We’ve got a big event coming up next weekend, so I took some time today to try and neaten up the garden. I did a lot of deadheading flowers, picking blueberries, and evaluating what’s done for the year and which pots need new flowers….

Mapping My Mind

Working on a ‘mindmap’ today to help outline a writing project I’ve got buzzing around up there in said mind. Also, take a look at the bunny we made for a rousing game of ‘Pin the Tail on the Bunny’: Its hard to tell…

Clown Bean Bag Toss

We made a family project this morning at the suggestion of Vivi – a clown bean bag toss game. I took a large sheet of cardboard and drew a clown face on it, then cut big holes at the eyes and mouth. Viv colored…

Activity Cube for Little Kids

We worked on a kiddo craft today – an activity cube to use for an active indoor game – perfect for a day like today when it was completely pouring outside (yay summer). This was a fun, easy craft to work on with the…

License Plate Game Map

I left the license plate game sheet I made at home so I decided to whip up a new one – my idea to draw a US map got slightly derailed by the slight problem with scale I had (note: gap between Alabama and…