While the gnomes were off on their long awaited visit to their city cousins, the small woodland animals and the Autumn Fairies were hard at work, decking out the gnomes’ house for the Harvest Festival, complete with a charming Autumn Leaf Banner. You can imagine the gnome’s surprise and delight when they returned, weary …
This week’s Unplugged Challenge theme was fruit. We have been doing so many things with apples over the past few weeks (you can scroll through my past blog postings to see more of our apple activities) it was hard to choose the one thing I wanted to label as our Unplugged activity. I decided to …
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This banner was designed to fit a branch in our Gnome Home. You may wish to customize the banner to fit a preexisting branch in your Gnome Home or add an angled twig to hang the banner as is. As always, I use my applique patterns for different things. I took the Fall Banner, reduced …
Michelle and I are very lucky. Not only are we mother/daughter, but we’re also kindred spirits. We share a lot of very admirable qualities…but on the flip side…we also share several, hmmm, let’s just call them personality quirks. One of them is our tendency to fly off in several directions at once. So many things …
We created the Nubbie Doll with babies and mommies in mind. Nubbies have everything a baby loves; satin blanket binding to rub between their fingers, nubbie hands that are perfect for chewing on, and soft cotton flannel body for snuggling and they are small enough to carry everywhere! For moms we made them machine …
We spent the morning at Gammy’s yesterday and took advantage of her seemingly endless supply of art materials (this time rummaging through her entire box of stamp pads). We made our apple prints to go along with our Harvest Time Week Four, Johnny Appleseed theme. This was a very easy craft! All we did was …
Make some of your very own handmade wood folk farm animals for your play farm set. This is a project that even my youngest kiddo was able to participate in and enjoy. For this week’s Unplugged Challenge theme hard we made primitive folk art style Barnyard Animal Toys. When we first found out the theme last week, I asked the …
Look at what I’m working on for my nephews for Christmas. Aren’t they cute? These are actually the ones my mom made last year for my kiddos. She got the original kit from Morehouse Farm and we have made several since. I don’t have a photo of mine atm (it isn’t far enough along to …
It has been another perfectly beautiful fall day. We got out to apple orchard to get in our wagon ride pulled by a tractor. Of course we had to pick apples, watch the cider press and eat lots of hot, fresh doughnuts too. With all these apples we now have on hand… I may pull …
Here is a fun, quick handprint craft project that can add to your spooky Halloween decor. Make your own recycled wax handprint sand candles. This afternoon we made handprint sand candles using the kids hand/foot prints. They were really easy and we used recycled materials… so it was a free craft too. Recycled Handprint …
For Harvest Time Week Three our focus was on tractors/farm machines and the book Rusty, Trusty Tractor. To go along with this theme, our art project was Tracks in the Mud. It was a beautiful day so we rolled out a large sheet of paper on the drive way, filled a baking pan with WASHABLE …
