Came downstairs to paint and glitter ALL over the kitchen floor … The floor I had JUST vacuumed. And Mopped. Buuuuut…they had found the #spinart and occupied their own time for a good part of the morning. So I desperately tried to hold in my need to clean and maintain my morning cool – pre-coffee. […]

We have been collecting leaves for a few weeks now and setting them in our Fall Nature Tray (on our kitchen table). We call them Nature Treasures and it’s ONE place we gladly add to our collection (so I don’t keep finding crunched up leaf debris at the bottom of my purse or pocket…)  I […]

One to one correspondence. Early counting. We have been using these little Counting Leaves in our Sensory Kits since September but had some colored gemstones out today for another project and decided to do some one-to-one correspondence. I love the Fall colors and how easy it was to mesh balance the flat marbles on top […]

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Fall treasure study Maize, pumpkins, and gourds We have really been enjoying the process of oil pastels these last few weeks. I forgot how much I like them! They were my favorite in grade school, high school, university, and beyond. Glad to have them resurface during our art space move <3  Lillian (4) in particular […]

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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: “It’s 1. 1. 6.” Instead of one […]

It was a cold and rainy day. My little one needed something inside to play…something Fun. something that would catch her attention and keep her interest. I decided to pull out the Halloween sensory bin toys. I put rice in a super sized salad/mixing bowl (once my grandfather’s) – – this thing has to be […]

Witch’s Apothecary pretend kitchen play, dabbling in chemistry, creative thinking, Halloween fun. A while back – at the beginning of the Halloween season, I came across some “specimen jars” used for decoration. I loved the spooky, eerie thought of these but didn’t want to spend the money on them for decoration – maybe some day […]

A Haunted Halloween Project. Buga and I made this Haunted House project (Thanks, Mom!) as one of our Art projects. There were two sections to color – the top of the house and the bottom. Buga REALLY wanted us to color the house, together – which I try not to do because I like her […]