Sometimes I completely stress out about “unschooling” … Letting my child lead the way. Sometimes I wonder  Am I doing enough? Is she doing enough? Is she on par? It seems silly, when I slow down and actually think about it. Silly because all children, reach milestones on their own schedule… A notion that we […]

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 […]

With Halloween quickly approaching I thought it would be fun to have fun with Monsters – the Cute, Friendly Monster Kinds. See, Buga is actually afraid of monsters lately. She thinks they live in our house and in her room. She conjures up these stories about them all the time and instead of telling her […]

Our Spring Time theme certainly brought out the flowers! We have been reading a lot of stories about gardens, flowers, and colors. We have also been watching the flowers bloom around us. When I bought a rainbow of flowers for Buga’s sensory bin I made sure to buy extras for this little “store front business”. […]

With a little imagination, This: cardboard box Becomes this: personal driving machine Buga found a cardboard box. She pretended to drive it like a car. So we decided to cover it in easel paper, decorate it… and turn it into a car. I added a side-car snack holder so she could grab a snack or […]

As an extension of our Sensory Bin…and an extension of our Bug Find Game within the Sensory Bin, we decided to Draw the bugs we saw….and make up our own bugs! I was shocked by how wonderful and creative Buga was at creating these bugs. I wasn’t sure if she would like this activity or […]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Retelling These Story Sticks were props for Buga’s Birthday party not long ago. Instead of tossing them I, of course, thought they could serve SOME purpose (I have the hardest time throwing anything away!) Needless to say, this was a good garbage-saving decision as Buga has had a lot of educational […]

I love when Buga comes up with new ways to play with the same toys. Sometimes I feel like we are so bombarded with *new* toys, we don’t take the time to really appreciate the abilities of our oldies-but-goodies. So when we got out our Rainbow Building Blocks and added our Family Box, we had […]

Look at this AMAZING kitchen Grandma built for Layla for Christmas. I have been wanting to do this for a long time when I came across some inspiring homemade kid’s kitchens online. We talked about dimensions, components, colors, sizes, etc…and talked some more. I drew up some plans. My Mom repurposed this old entertainment unit […]

Layla has been SO excited about birthday’s since Grandma’s birthday in January. Since then, Happy Birthday has been a common song in our home. With her snowed-in birthday on Wednesday, she has been talking about birthdays ALL week. When I saw this Birthday Playset at the learning store I had to get it. We opened […]