This is our first time joining in with Unplug Your Kids’ Unplugged Project (and I’m a day late but a power outage messed us up yesterday). Her theme this week was alphabet so we made some Jello Jigglers using letter cutters, they came out a little rough looking but the kids really liked them (and [...]

Yesterday I read someone’s blog post about taking her son outside to paint the snow and I got nostalgic about the times my boys painted and played in snow in our bathtub. We did it last winter and this winter too but winter can feel so long and the last time we did this in [...]

Our boys are very creative players and yesterday morning (and much of the day) they were prairie dogs. They started making their home by pushing the chairs into position and getting pillows and blankets on their own but I did help by attaching the big sheet with clothes pins and grippy clips. Using the pop [...]

Years ago I became hooked on a show out of the UK called Junkyard Wars. Two teams would be challenged to build something in 10 hours using parts from the shows junkyard. I loved watching the teams struggle to find the right parts and hobble together some amazing machines in such a short amount of [...]