Mom, you know all about dirt, dontcha? Today, we’re going to talk about the SCIENCE of dirt! Or rather, the science of soil, a vital resource to farmers and gardeners. I have a fun STEM recipe to make your own edible “soil” with your kids. Lucky for me, my kid is a fourth grader and is currently …
Crafts for Kids
I don’t often get giddy about Disney Princess movies, but Moana is special. I think it’s because the hubs and I had a chance to visit Hawaii–and the island of Maui–last spring. To this day Maui is a wild and magical island…just the sort of place I’d imagine meeting a demigod.
Mitch is taking over the blog today with some of his cartoons! Sit back and enjoy these Sunday Funnies–and if you like them, we’ll make more. In fact, I’m up to my eyeballs in sketches here, so it’s just a matter of scanning and loading them up. Enjoy! A Trip to the Arch
It took me three years of begging to get my first Millennium Falcon, and when that baby showed up under the Christmas tree in 1981 I was one happy nerf herder. I still have that Kenner Falcon, and believe it or not, and I actually let the boys play with it. I’m not one of …
Do you like to celebrate “Christmas in July?” It kinda makes sense to craft a few ornaments in the summer when the kids are bored…rather than in the winter when you’re frantically rushing from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas! Don’t cha think? Merry Minecraft Ornaments These Minecraft ornaments were a big hit last Christmas–and will still be …
Whenever I find a perfectly square box I get a little excited. See, I’m a Minecraft Mom and, yes, I geek out over cube shaped objects. Especially those that Mitch and I can turn into a Minecraft project. You might remember that last month Goodwill challenged me to upcycle a few things from their thrift shop. …
Fireflies are the friendliest bugs of summer and we love them! We love watching them twinkle in the trees out back and we love to chase them through the yard. We also love to see how many fireflies we can catch in a jar–but our part of suburbia seems to be short on lightening bugs …
I love to go thrift shopping at Goodwill–bargain hunting for a good cause? Sign me up! Besides, I’m way too lazy to have a yard sale,so whenever our closets start to overflow we put together a Goodwill bag and send our gently used items off to find a new home. There’s a MERS/Goodwill a few miles from …