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Despicable Me Shadow Puppets
We have a sky light in our living room that brings in a lot of lovely natural light into our home. Yesterday afternoon it cast a shadow on our wall that had my daughter squealing with excitement. “Look, it’s Gru. It’s Gru” My husband & I both laughed. It did look like Gru from […]
Toilet Paper Roll Grapes
Before we had our daughter we kept a pretty neat home. We had little knick knacks on our coffee table, there weren’t scuffs & marker on our hardwood floor & I used to have a clean & bare refrigerator. I hated having things on my refrigerator. I thought it looked ugly to have shopping […]
Pasta Shell Snails
Our daughter is becoming quite the artist. She has been drawing & painting up a storm. One of her favorite things to draw is a snail. She loves to draw them. She makes a swirling circle for a body, antennae with eyes & she never forgets to add his snail slime. We have been making […]
Egg Carton Peacock Craft
A while back, I bought a stack of burlap canvases. They having been sitting there collecting dust for several months now. Last night after dinner, I wanted to try one out. I painted a peacock, while Mai watched. “What you making, Mama?” “A peacock.” “I want to make a peacock too!” Egg Carton Peacock […]
Paper Plate Carousel
Paper Plate Carousel What you will need: 2 Paper plates Paper bowl Paper towel roll Construction paper 4 Wooden sticks, straws or any straight rigid object A piece of egg carton Acrylic paint Glue gun Directions: Draw a circle in the center of both paper plates & the paper bowl & then cut it […]
Ice Cream Cone Potato Stamps
This has been an amazing few days. There is still snow in my front yard despite the fact that we have had two warm days in a row, but I don’t even mind. It is almost gone & the nice weather is here. It felt great to get outside. Sunday we spent the day at […]
Earth Day Hand & Footprint Craft
Mai & I have been working on learning our planets together for a little while now. I am proud & also a little embarrassed to say that she has a better grasp on our solar system than I do. The only ones that I can name are Saturn & of course the Earth. Earth Day is coming […]
Paper Plate Pocketbook
Our little girl is growing up so quickly. It seems as if she went from baby girl to young lady virtually overnight. She has become quite the little girly girl. A tutu must be worn at all times, she digs into mommy’s make-up brushes and she has already found her love for hats & […]