Music brightens our day and immediately changes the mood of our home, so we thought today we would share with you our current favorite songs. Feel free to play it throughout the day and enjoy!
Surprisingly, listening to this song helped my children learn the meaning of the words “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” better than if I had tried explaining it to them!
The girls and I saw this fun craft on Nick Jr. showing how to make a guitar out of recycled household items–the perfect craft for Earth Week! Materials: Tissue Box Paper Towel Roll Paintbrush and Paints Stick or Dried-up Pen Rubber bands Instructions: Paint your tissue box and paper towel tube with fun, bright colors […]
Winter is over (well, kinda) and we are starting art group again. I decided an hour before it began I could take two 18-month-olds and a three-year-old to Costco and return in time. I was running around like a crazy lady and became all frazzled. Not a good thing to do before art group, and […]
“I’m just a photographer working on my craft every day in some small way. I want to share with you what I saw at that moment in time” To my grandchildren I’m “Grammie with the camera”. It’s part of my identity. There have been very few times in their lives they’re seen me without a camera in […]
It always makes me chuckle when my girls pick up on a classic “oldies” song. They love to sing and dance along to it for weeks and then move on to a different song. I love it as the Mom because I feel that is opens their perspectives, allows them to appreciate a wide array […]
Ten Thousand Villages is a fair trade retailer that carries handmade jewelry, home decor, gifts and much more. They work with over 130 artisan groups in more than 38 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Fair trade enables artisans to earn a fair wage and provides the opportunity for a better quality of life. The girls […]
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little longer by Irish dancing around the house with the kiddos. Irish dancing is notable for it’s rapid leg movements, body and arms being kept largely stationary. Did you know that this type of dance came from the evolutionary descendants of the Quadrilles danced at the French court in the […]
I hosted our first Art Day Outing a few weeks ago and it was such fun! In Salt Lake City they have these amazing murals painted by the 377 Project Artists. The project is called the Urban Gallery and it can still be seen at Neighborhood House (1050 W. 500 S.), but not for much […]
Boy do kids love any art project that involves getting their hands messy! You can dress up or arrange your thumb/finger-prints to make a family portrait, clouds, flowers, butterflies or animals. This is such a fun and simple project to do, all it requires is an ink pad and some markers.
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