Posted in challenges, crafts, art on Oct 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
This week’s Unplug Your Kids challenge is white. So here’s the art project we did…
Isn’t it lovely?
Okay, there was a bit more to it!
1. Give each child a piece of watercolor paper (or any white paper) and a white crayon. Explain that they’re making invisible art and have the kids draw elaborate drawings […]
Posted in PE, challenges on Oct 4th, 2008 No Comments »
The kids and I are all going to get serious about daily physical exercise and we’re using The President’s Challenge to give us a kick start. The goal is 60 minutes a day of activity (30 for adults), at least 5 days a week, for 6 weeks. We can also use pedometers some days, and […]
Posted in Unplug Your Kids, challenges, crafts on Sep 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
This week’s theme at Unplug Your Kids is fruit, so I thought it would be fun to make watermelon playdough.
This is a craft that is great for Sensory Integration work (with the bumps, the scent, the squishing and the warmth when you first make it) and it’s just plain fun.
Steps…
1. Save watermelon seeds, rinse and […]
Posted in Kindergarten, challenges, nature, art on Sep 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
This month’s theme at Laugh Learn Love is 5 Senses and I decided to try to put together some fun stuff to do with the kids around it today. I decided to tie the activities together around the ocean and came up with some fun activities.
Taste: I found this page about the different ways that […]
Posted in challenges, crafts on Sep 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
This week’s theme for Unplug Your Kids is soft. We had a hard time coming up with a good project for it for some reason. In the end I made up a puffy “quilted” art project. It was a lot of work for the kids and I’m impressed with how carefully they did it. In […]
Posted in challenges, art on Sep 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
The girls took part in the Tuesday sketch challenge at Harmony Art Mom.
Here are their entries. Anna’s is the second to last and Victoria’s is the last (the tree frog). The challenge was to sketch something that lives in or on a tree.
This week’s challenge to sketch a school supply. Hmm… in homeschool that could […]
Posted in Full Disclosure, Behavior, challenges, Victoria on Aug 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Oh my goodness. It’s Victoria’s day to make my brain explode. She is not a happy camper today.
I suppose she had it coming. She’s spent her life being a very responsible, level-headed, easy child. It’s not like it could go on forever and it probably wouldn’t even be healthy if […]
Posted in challenges, crafts, nature, art, science on Aug 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s the craft we came up with for Unplug Your Kids‘ Insect theme (see here for all our resources). It was quite fun!
I printed out some of the basic insect info first, along with the handout about how different types of legs, mouths and such did different jobs. We talked about what all insects had […]
Posted in Behavior, PE, Full Disclosure, Olympics, challenges, Anna, pictures, Victoria, Jack, history on Aug 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
We held our own Olympics yesterday!
The kids started by picking a country to represent and finding its flag on the “flags of the world” poster to copy. They carefully made flags and we taped them to the front of their shirts.
I helped them make 15 medals (gold, silver and bronze for 5 sports). We cut […]
Posted in challenges, cool sites, crafts, Fun, art on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
There are a bunch of really fun creative challenges out there in cyberspace right now. I’m really hoping to get to some of these with the kids in the next week or two. A few of my favorites…
KidMade just ran a challenge “to engineer the longest marble ramp you can using only cardboard and duct tape.” […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.