Jessica Perkins

We have been making Play Dough seasonally, which seems to work out well. We choose a different color and scent depending on what we are exploring for the season. This Summer we chose to make Yellow Play Dough with Gold Glitter and Coconut Extract (it smells like...

This little Folder Game was made for our Summer Beach / Ocean Theme and is used to reinforce simple colors. I found the Fish on a border at the Dollar store. I hole-punched them with a large circular punch, laminated the, and added Velcro. I cut out the "Coral" free...

 The Color Square   Do you know the colors of the Rainbow? The perfect combination of cotton, fiber, wood, and paint create this whimsically delightful Color "Square". Can you point out the different colors? Name them? Find their opposites? Describe them? With...

We did several projects to include on our Beach Mural this summer. One of them was a simple color-me shell page. We both colored some of the shells to put up at the bottom of the ocean floor. Buga doesn't always enjoy coloring - it's not that she can't do it, because...

peanut butter sandwich, pepperoni, almond slivers, cheese stick, carrot sticks, green grapes I have always loved the ideas of bentos. For adults. For kids. For toddlers. There is just something about cute little colorful foods combined together in a thoughtful way...

Buga is only 3 (well, 3 and a half)...but she has always shown an interest in numbers. She can count pretty well, and can identify all one-digit numbers. Lately she has been reading the clock...but saying each digit instead of the bigger numbers. So she will tell me:...

Share your story. I have been thinking a lot lately about the gifts and the stories we pass along to our children. The ones we mindfully set out to to teach and pass along and the ones we unknowingly pass down. Seeds blowing in the wind. Which ones will take root?...

Time Within. Learning to Respond Instead of React. I have been alone with my children for over a week now. I love them. Ohhh, how I love them ... But being the sole parent for any expansion of time is difficult. Really difficult. It requires a momentum of patience and...

Holding with an open palm. When I was in college I had a professor that taught The Culture of Respect. It was a class where the students WERE the text books. The stories they shared were the value and the connection and the information and the aha. He had many gifts,...

I used to believe when you were in a relationship or got married, you joined together and became “one” —— That was the ultimate goal of marital bliss and romanticism. “two become one.” I don’t believe that anymore. That’s called enmeshment and it’s incredibly...