Archive for August, 2008
Insect - Cricket Chirping/Musical Sticks (Weekly Unplugged Project)
My stepmother, who always enjoys our projects, recently sent my children a subscription to Family Fun magazine because she thought they might find some fun ideas there. Well, we did find an idea that sounded pretty cool for this week’s insect Unplugged Project: Cricket Chirpers.
Supplies: 1/2″ wooden beads, wooden skewers, and glue (the article [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2008 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts, educational/homeschool, nature, science projects, toddlers.
Comments: 12
Trees - Handprint Trees and an Unexpected Visitor (Weekly Unplugged Project)
Unplugged Project Special Edition
Now that my camera cable is back, here is our project for trees. Better late than never I suppose!
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I was fairly uninspired for the Unplugged Project theme of trees. It needed to be simple since we were in Albuquerque for the weekend, away from any supplies beyond crayons and paper. [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2008 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts, educational/homeschool, nature, young children.
Comments: 9
You Heard it Here First
Hopefully NOT your tax dollars at work.
+++Exercise and limited TV time may keep kids trim +++
New Study - Boys need 13,000 steps per day, girls need 11,000.
Should we issue each child a pedometer? Or simply turn off the TV and send them outside? (Journal of Pediatrics - Text of actual [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Everything Else!, studies/statistics.
Comments: 4
Potty Update: Success!!
OK, I know that my two year-old’s potty progress is not the world’s most earth-shattering, fascinating topic. Even I, her mother, am not THAT riveted by it all. The only one who finds it endlessly entertaining is my two year-old herself.
So, WARNING - If you are not interested in the finer points [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under "mom-ideas" that work for me, Everything Else!, parenting ponderings.
Comments: 7
Cylinder - Surprise Cylinders! (Weekly Unplugged Project)
My camera cable is back so I can join in again, hooray!!!
When I picked the theme of cylinder for this week’s Unplugged Project, I was thinking of all the toilet paper we usually seem to go through so quickly. Guess what: this week, not one empty roll of toilet paper. How did [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2008 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts, holidays/celebrations.
Comments: 16
Back in the Saddle Again (I Hope)
After a long and complicated summer full of travel and adventures, school will begin again on Monday (hooray!!!).
Thanks to a little two week baby sitting coop that some friends and I did, I had some time this week without bored children around (as in NO children, ZERO children, NOT ONE CHILD!!!). I spent my [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Everything Else!, about me.
Comments: 2