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 […]

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 […]

While in the bathroom at my parent’s house, I noticed a ton of empty toilet paper tubes…..and inspiration struck! I know, an interesting beginning to a craft story…. Anyway, I remember seeing / making “poppers” – goody favors inside a toilet paper tube, twisted with tissue paper to look like an unopened piece of candy […]

It’s Sensory Bin Time! Oh how I love the open-endedness of a sensory bin. I love how many different skills can be practiced with a little bit of imagination and a box of “stuff”. I always enjoy creating these things, it’s a lot of fun for me to make and then I love watching how […]

A Simple Activity that gave me some extra time in the kitchen to get dinner finished. Halloween themed and fun. I found foam pumpkins in the Dollar spot at Target. I also found face stickers. Put them together and you get a study of faces… What makes a face? What makes a face silly? Where […]

We made these in the Summer, but Fish…and I thought they would make a beautiful addition to our autumn decorations. I was right. They are so beautiful. We just used clear contact paper and covered it with tissue squares; added a piece of contact paper on top; and cut out a leaf shape. When you […]

We played with this stuff in the project room at the Please Touch Museum and had to buy some before we left. A whole new texture to playdough – it’s supposed to never dry out. Buga has been enjoying this new textural medium immensely. It’s kind of therapeutic to mush and mash.

With the transformation of our butterflies we wanted to do an art project to celebrate. These coffee filter butterflies turned out to be a great example of process art…and totally whimsically cute finished. Buga loved spraying the spray bottle and watching the ink drip drop and slide. Simply beautiful. Here she is….intense…working on her creations. […]

We are always looking for ways to incorporate our themes into our art projects. We recently decided to make an under the sea “mural” on our door using different methods of expression for different creatures in the deep. We are learning about the beach and ocean now, as a prelude to our trip to the […]