Welcome to Day 7 of our 10-day Newspaper Activities series. Today’s activity is probably the simplest yet, if you have a paper shredder that is, for today’s activity is a newspaper sensory bin! To create this activity, simply shred the newspaper in a paper shredder and place the shreds in a large container such as a cooler or…
Welcome to Day 2 of our 10-day Newspaper Activities series. Yesterday we began the series with the creation of a newspaper gift bow. Something simple yet useful for those last minute presents you have to wrap. Today we are going to look at something slightly different that the kids are sure to enjoy–Newspaper Sports!…
Peanut recently ran out of watercolor paint. This is nothing new. In fact, it happens quite often as she really likes to paint. However, instead of making another trip to the store, we decided to try our hand at making our own watercolor paint. The result? We will never buy watercolor paint again. This stuff…
Have you tried any of the Pinterest play activities recently? Well Peanut and I decided to take the test and try out a few of the popular pinned ideas. Here’s how they turned out… 1) Our first pin to try was coloring on laminated self-portraits with dry erase markers. While the process was successful I’m…
You ever have one of those days where you just want to do everything your mom told you not to do? Well that’s exactly what my daughter and I did last week. On Friday, the scene outside our house looked something like this… Photo by John Gilchrist Needless to say, our little two year…
Just before Christmas our washer timer quit and our dryer decided to shoot out sparks. While it usually happens that one appliance goes out before the other, ours just happened to die within the same week. So, ready or not, we needed to purchase a new washer and dryer. And you know what that means–a…
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