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Summer Fun Day 70 - Turning the Computer Off 3 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
It may be only early August, but in our little corner of Montana the mornings are already growing chilly. The apples are nearly ripe... ...there are southward flying geese in the air... ...boxes of...
Summer Fun Day 69 - Gummy Belly Bear Cookies 2 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Using fruit snacks instead of gummy bears in our popsicles left us with plenty of bears for trying out The Baking Robot's gummy bear thumbprint cookie recipe. The cookies turned out to be buttery and...
Summer Fun Day 68 - Multi-Shot Marshmallow/Pom-Pom Poppers 1 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Usually, marshmallow poppers are made with paper cups, and are single shot (click the link for instructions, and remember to keep balloon pieces away from small children). It turns out you can replac...
Summer Fun Day 67 - Frozen Ocean Pops 31 Jul 2013 | 05:41 pm
These are sort of like the gummy bear popsicles you might have (or is that may have?) seen on Pinterest, or around the blogosphere, but with a maritime makeover. We started by filling popsicle molds ...
Summer Fun Day 66 - Sight Word Sewing Cards 30 Jul 2013 | 04:47 pm
Just because it's summer, doesn't mean we can't throw some second grade spelling practice in with the fun. It's great to be a homeschooler.
Summer Fun Day 65 - Wordless Book Bible Tabs 29 Jul 2013 | 04:28 pm
Last week, as I was teaching Vacation Bible School, I was reminded again of how much I like using the Childhood Evangelism Fellowship's Wordless Book, for explaining the plan of salvation to children....
Summer Fun Day 64 - Taking Time to be Thankful 29 Jul 2013 | 12:46 am
We were thanking God this morning, after a beautiful, but very smokey sunrise (above) due to a couple of forest fires we'd glimpsed the beginnings of yesterday (below)... ...when the wind shifted, an...
Summer Fun Day 63 - Paperclip Pals 27 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
The children did all kinds of great crafts at VBS, this week. My favorite was a paper clip bookmark, with yarn hair, tied in knots across the top of jumbo (3.5'') paperclips. I didn't get a chance t...
Summer Fun Day 62 - Creative Problem Solving or How to Make "Cow Spot" Patterned Ice Cream 26 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm
Our dear, 13 year old, friend (and house guest), K is crazy about cows, or at least anything covered in a cow spotted pattern. So, when she mentioned, that when she grows up she'd like to open an ice...
Summer Fun Day 61 - Grab-A Bubbles, Bubbles You Can Touch 25 Jul 2013 | 06:43 pm
I was telling the store clerk (in Montana it's normal to have long conversations with the clerk and other customers in grocery store check-out lines) about our bubble stations, and that if I could fin...
