by jessicaperkins | Nov 3, 2011 | bento, bento box, food, home school, kitchen, lunch, nutrition, School, time
With the beginning of the school year comes thoughts of a yummy school lunch. I have been exploring fun ways to present Buga with healthy lunching opportunities and fell in love with Bento style packing. Though she won’t be taking lunch to her little school this...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 25, 2011 | food, mondays, muffin, snack, time, tin, tray
Snack Time!I have been wanting to make these little sandwich flowers for some time now. I saw them in a parenting magazine and thought they would be a fun way to each “sandwiches”. They were easy to make and a fun addition to our play date snack time.-...
by jessicaperkins | Apr 4, 2011 | activity, book, cart, coloring, crayola, crayons, drawing, grocery, homeschool, quiet, School, time, tot, wipeable
I made these wipeable coloring sheets by photocopying some of Buga’s favorite coloring book activities – I copied them at 60% so they would be more portable. I laminated each page, hole-punched it, and bound them together with a metal ring from Staples. We...
by jessicaperkins | Mar 3, 2011 | book, bookshelf, home, homeschool, march, reading, School, shelf, Spring, time, tot
We have been away on Vacation…Preparing for Buga’s Birthday Party which was this weekend…Now we are Sick! Needless to say, things have been busy…but I have had an opportunity to create our next Book List for our Spring Time Book Shelf. Here...
by jessicaperkins | Jan 19, 2011 | activity, bin, box, container, development, discovery, early childhood, learning, natural, play, sandbox, Sensory, tactile, texture, time
We have been using Sensory Bins as a way to incorporate the Season or Holiday into our daily routine for awhile now. However, I have not been very good at documenting them until recently. Buga really enjoys playing with different nicknacks in a tub filled with...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 13, 2010 | bath, learning, play, time, Toy, tub
An ever so simple tub toy with endless open-ended play possibilities : Ping Pong Balls. You can shoot ’em in a basket, bounce them off the walls, watch them float, catch them with a “net”, push them under and watch them “pop up”…let...
