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Life’s Joys
By Heather Sanders. We are less than a week into December and a few days ago we joined our close friends for one of our joy-filled traditions, the annual painting of the Christmas ornaments at U...
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Journaling Revisited
By Heather Sanders. You may remember my blog post about the summer journaling project initiated at the start of this past Summer. I meant to follow-up on our efforts at the start of the Fall school...
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Marion Deuchars’“Let’s Make Some Great Art!”
By Heather Sanders. Last week, in my follow-up post on our summer journaling project, Emelie let me share a few pages from her journal. We enjoyed reading all the responses, took notes on the tips,...
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Community Question: Suggestions for encouraging kids to journal?
Community Question is a category inspired by you. Here and there readers write in with questions that are better served by the varied, experiential knowledge of those who read and contribute in the...
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FREE Online Kids’ Christmas Activities
By Heather Sanders. Though my kids have always truly enjoyed their Christmas Break, there is such a thing as too much “down” time. When the kids were younger, after the first few days of Christmas...
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All Fired-up for Christmas
By Heather Sanders. I had several requests to view our 2012 Christmas Ornaments after they were fired, so I felt Christmas Day would be perfect to post them. I am not incredibly artistic when it comes...
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Images to Inspire
By Heather Sanders. At the start of each new year I take time to update and clean out my browser’s bookmarked web pages. It almost seems counterproductive for me to bookmark anything since I rarely, if...
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Smash* Book
By Heather Sanders. Now that we are more than halfway through the school year I wanted to share about Smash* Book, an elective class my friend Shannon is teaching in our homeschool cooperative. As I...
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Making Valentine’s Day Cards
By Heather Sanders. Each year a few members of our homeschool cooperative get together to plan a Valentine’s Day party for the teachers and students. The kids exchange cards, play a game or two,...
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Two Days Till Valentine’s!
By Heather Sanders. If you caught my Making Valentine’s Day Cards post at the tail-end of January, then you know I planned to share some of our Valentine’s Day card photos as we neared February 14th....
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Crazy Bubbles
By Heather L. Sanders. For years there have been few things that Kenny enjoys as consistently as building with LEGOS – whether individually purchased sets or his own independent creations. So, when...
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Children’s Wallet Cards – Review & Giveaway (Winners Announced!)
The three winners of the Children’s Wallet Cards – Review & Giveaway are: #525 Julie in Bridgewater: “It would be hard to pick one…alphabet, colors and shapes or number… have a nine month old...
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The Importance of Cultivating Creativity in Kids
By Heather Sanders When I graduated from college I never fathomed that seven years later I would begin my first online business. This is primarily because the internet was only available to a few...
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The A to Z Project Review
By Heather Sanders In two more weeks, our Co-op classes are over for the school year. There were two main projects in Kenny’s American History course this year, one per semester. He wrapped up the...
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Rainy Day Crafts
By Heather Sanders The Summer months offer kids the opportunity to enjoy fun in the sun, day in and day out. Whether they spend it building elaborate sandcastles on the beach, sinking their toes in the...
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Supplement Summer with Surprise Ride & Other Craft Kits
By Heather Sanders When the kids were younger, I made it a point to keep a wide variety of art supplies stocked throughout the year. We never ran out of the basics, like crayons, markers, map pencils,...
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My Monster Bubble Writer: Book Review & Giveaway (WINNERS ANNOUNCED!)
—————— THE 5 WINNERS OF “THE BOOK OF SIGHT” REVIEW & GIVEAWAY ARE: Lisa (Comment #255) Sherri Klug (Comment #620) Lisa (Comment #774) Janice S. (Comment #69) Leslie B. (Comment #908) Winners,...
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Thanksgiving Activities Round-up
Photo/Craft Source: Thanks and Giving Trees After reading responses to some of your all-time favorite Thanksgiving crafts, I ended up on Pinterest in one of those “where in the world did the last 2...
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Groundhog Day Crafts, Printables, and Recipes Round-up
Photo/Craft Source: i {heart} crafty things Now that you have learned 20 Interesting Facts about Groundhog Day, it is time to gather some supplies and get ready to celebrate with a few crafts and...
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Getting Googly for Valentine’s Day
By Heather Sanders I’m a sucker for googly eyes. I don’t know what it is about them, but they make me smile; they always have. By the way, smiling is a great work-out for the face. I know this because...
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