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Summer Fun Day 19 - Craft Feather Quill Pens 13 Jun 2013 | 01:36 pm
I've had "make a feather quill pen" on our to-do list for quite some time. It's one of those homeschool right of passage projects, like making homemade bread. For some reason it had never occurred t...
Simple Summer Fun Day 18 - Taking the Bored out of Board Games 12 Jun 2013 | 02:40 pm
Like most American families, we have a game cupboard stuffed full of fabulous board games. Some are from my own childhood, some are educational, some were "family" Christmas gifts from friends, and m...
Summer Fun Day 17 - Punnett Square Cookies 11 Jun 2013 | 01:34 pm
I fielded a question in Sunday school on Sunday morning, that had me teaching a quick sidebar lesson on genetics, and then running home to do a panicked fact check. After being reassured by Answers i...
Summer Fun Day 16 - Bubble Chalk 10 Jun 2013 | 01:15 pm
Bubbles are fun... ...chalk is fun... ...and it turns out... ...that chalk bubbles (1/2 piece of sidewalk chalk, or 1 stick of colored chalk if you don't have sidewalk chalk handy, crushed, and mixed ...
Summer Fun Day 15 - Taking Time to be Thankful 9 Jun 2013 | 06:25 pm
This week we are thanking God for pill bugs... ...caterpillars (I think this one is a Cabbage White)... ...pumpkin seedlings sprouting... ...and friends to share them with. With public school letting ...
Summer Fun Day 14 - Finger Weaving "Magic" Worm Puppets 8 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm
On a whim, I picked up a "Magic Wigglee" worm ( click here to see a campy '70s style ad for them , if you don't know what they are), hanging at eye level in one of the aisles, at the grocery store. I...
Summer Fun Day 13 - Gummy Creations - Painting With Gummy 7 Jun 2013 | 02:54 pm
This is one of those projects that sounds easy in the planning stage - just divide out a batch of homemade gummy solution (I like the "easy peasy" recipe from Not So Idle Hands ) into squeeze bottles,...
Summer Fun Day 12 - Bubble Stations 6 Jun 2013 | 02:38 pm
Soap bubbles supply some of the summer's simplest joys. But, blowing bubbles can easily be bumped from a brief boredom buster to an afternoon event. All it takes is the tiniest bit of planning and se...
Summer Fun Day 11 - Outdoor, Books of the Bible Game 5 Jun 2013 | 03:06 pm
I spotted a books of the Bible game on a children's ministry site , some time ago, that I've been wanting to try out with my Sunday school class. It's a nice, active, outside game, and after all the ...
Summer Fun Day 10 - Teen Boredom Buster - Brownie Bake-Off 4 Jun 2013 | 04:54 pm
The thing with parenting is just about the time you become an expert at dealing with preschoolers, you realize you've got teenagers in the house. It's amazing how quickly that happens. For the most p...
