Marbled Sunset Painting While the sun was setting behind us, I thought Emily would like to paint a picture of a sunset. I wanted to use a technique that would be easy for her, but give great results. This one was a hit! Diy Bedside Lamps – Finished Finally some progress! This has been a long project and it took more time and planning than I thought, but I can happily say that my lamps are finally finished! Yay! The Iowa Farmer's Wife: 50 Travel Tips & Activities Summer is here and with it vacations! And while vacations are AWESOME, they involve a whole buncha planning and that daunting thing that gets you where you're going...TRAVEL. In April I made a 12-hour (each way) road trip alone with both kiddos and survived!
20 fine motor activities for babies and toddlers Here are 20 fabulous fine motor activities for babies and toddlers – fun ways to develop skills that lead the way to one day holding a pencil and learning how to write. baby-play-tissue-box-play There are lots of lovely invitations to play you can set up for you baby that encourage them to develop their fine motor skills as they play. You could try this tissue box play idea... Photos: Learn with Play at Home, Creative Playhouse, Small and Friendly, The Good Long Road, Sugar Aunts, Carrots are Orange, JDaniels4′s Mom, KZ and Me, Buggy and Buddy, Childhood 101, I Can Teach My Child, Picklebums, House of Burke, Mummy Musings and Mayhem, Fun Toddler Activities, NurtureStore,
Teacher Attitudes and Effective Discipline: Students Know When Teachers are in Control of the Class How teachers feel about themselves, their jobs, and their students are essential to their success as good classroom managers. Lots of people can teach, but not everyone can be a teacher. That is, given perfect students and infinite resources the transference of knowledge is pretty simple. Making Books to Invite Creativity – with EASY Video Tutorial A colorful pile of blank homemade books! Don’t they just speak of creative possibilities? Stories and drawings and hand-drawn comic books!
Kiss Flip Book When my father was battling cancer, Emily wanted to make something extra special for him. Something that would fit in his wallet, so it would be easy for him to take it to chemo and radiation treatments. Isn’t she so thoughtful?? When I came across this post at Color Me Katie (I adore her!!), I knew it was just the right project! I took a series of photos using heart-shaped sticky notes on the wall as shown. Parenting Categories Get the Babble Newsletter! Parks & Travel Disney Store National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone SEA-SAWS SEA-SAWS is fun for kids of all ages. Select photographs of natural and man-made objects, then arrange the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition. The BUILD tool helps you construct animated characters and set them in motion. (Shockwave, 7.5 MB) FACES & PLACES helps children of all ages create portraits and landscape paintings in the style of American naive artists.
Teaching Myself How to Teach English I panicked. It was only my second day teaching English in Tajikistan and I panicked. I sat alone in my room flustered and close to tears because I had no clue how I was going to come up with four hours of English lessons every day. I planned out what I thought would be my first four lessons the night I arrived in the village of Shing, but we whipped through everything on the first day. So after nearly five hours of lessons the previous day and over two hours of lessons that morning, I just froze. Build With Letters - Alphabet For Starters The goal for our Alphabet For Starters series is to give you ways to introduce letters to your children through all sorts of play. This activity the 7th post in our series pairs gross motor play with letter recognition perfectly! Don’t forget that the number one thing you can do to teach your children about letters is to read to them so after the activity we’ve included some of our favorite books and if you are looking for alphabet books for kids we have 50 Alphabet Books too!
DIY Ping Pong Ball Cafe Lights Right now Edie sleeps with us in our bedroom. Sometimes she actually sleeps with us in bed in a LulyBoo (love that portable thing) and other times she sleeps in this cradle above in the corner by the door to the sunroom where the rest of her nursery is (see the full nursery tour here). Because this is a small space I wanted to make it special and thought some colorful cafe lights might do the trick! Did you know you can make these cafe lights from a strand of LED lights and ping pong balls? It will cost you about $16 with plenty of extra ping pongs to spare for another strand. The LED part is crucial- don’t use regular twinkle lights.
creative jewish mom I'm quite sure how that happened, but Purim is in another week plus a few days, and so it is surely time to get crafting for Purim, right? Okay, truthfully I have been crafting, just not stuff that I can share with you at the moment, or have yet to photograph, which is usually the case, phew! I tried to photograph something quickly before the sun went down, but since the project wasn't quite finished I think I'll share it with you in its entirety tomorrow.