For fun Halloween decorations, make these Hanging Fabric Ghosts to haunt your home. We created these Hanging Fabric Ghosts to go along with this week’s Unplugged Challenge theme: white. I’m sure I’m not the only one who took the theme white and combined it with upcoming Halloween and thought… hmmm ghosts. We did a stiff …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In some ways it seems silly to call a frequent activity a field trip, but since we did spend a few minutes more focused on the activity I believe it counts. We marveled at all the colors and smells. The kids were especially drawn to the beautiful, purple eggplant. It is just a glorious beginning …
This week’s Unplugged Challenge theme was Trees. I had been wanting to try the Freezer Paper Stencil style shirts for awhile now and leaves seemed like a fun inspiration for the design. So this week we made freezer paper stencil leaf shirts. Freezer Paper Stencil Leaf Shirts Materials cotton t-shirt (pre-washed) leaves or other design …
Last week we had a few days that gave us a taste of fall. They were cool days requiring long sleeves. The air was damp and in general I got the feeling that a hearty meal of Vegetable Beef Stew, Corn Bread and Hot Cider would soon be our meal of choice over our current …
