CLEANING YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOUR KIDS ARE STILL GROWING IS LIKE SHOVELING THE WALK BEFORE IT'S STOPPED SNOWING. ~dayspring~
We decided to make air dry clay egyptian necklaces tonight. They turned out a little larger than expected but the girls had fun. I made a pdf file of the paper necklace and put it on hslaunch to share; top of the right sidebar. You can color it in, use air-dry clay, model magic or whatever you would like. I really think the model magic would be the way to go. But, I didn't have any on hand. We are going to paint them gold and add color to them. I have to go out tomorrow to get the paint.
Tom had the idea to sculpt a griffin. He's not done yet, but he is doing a great job.
Tonight I decided to make quick gluten free, dairy free, and soy free scones. I used the Arrowhead Mills Gluten Free Baking Mix and found a recipe in which I changed. These turned out pretty good. The Aldi's frozen blueberries are perfect and plump for this recipe. I used the Enjoy Life Choc. Chips. They are huge! Katie is on her second one. There is a little bit of a taste in them that I am not sure of. It may be from the box mix. But for a quick recipe, these are perfect. As long as Katie likes them that's great!
We got the sheets ready to rip...
Got out the tea bags...
Soaked the tea bags and sheet strips in boiling water...
I dried them in the dryer (this is the book we used for this craft) It will be listed on the left sidebar this week.
Tom sewing his ears on his cat mummy
Tom's cat mummy
My cat mummy
Ana's cat mummy (she doesn't like the face she drew)
Katie's cat mummy...she sewed her mummy's ears on by herself. Ana and I cheated; we used glue. ~smile~
"A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks" is giving away a Peter and the Wolf cd and lapbook. Here's the website:
http://www.ajourneythroughlearninglapbooks.com/2011/09/06/peter-the-wolf-cd-and-lapbook-giveaway/#comment-561
I found this online today. How to make your own air-dry clay. I think we may give it a try.
http://www.examiner.com/mixed-media-in-seattle/cold-porcelain-recipes-how-to-make-your-own-air-dry-modeling-clay
Should I put "everything" on this blog...the lapbooks, etc. Or, should I keep putting the lapbooks, etc. on my other blog http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com ? I would just write about other things on here. I really need to figure out how to get everything together.
I posted pictures of the girls new Story of the World 1 Ancient Times History Timelines and their first notebooking page on my Loving Life Lapbooks blog.
http://lovinglifelapbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/story-of-world-1-timeline-with.html
They love it!
We are just hanging around waiting for the storm to hit. We have the backyard cleaned up and all the boxes in the basement are up off the floor. We are just praying that our pump keeps working and we don't lose electricity.
We almost lost our bunny the night after we got him. He was accidentally hit by a bat. Yep. Only here could that happen. He was taken out of his cage (without permission), one of the girls' friends was taking him back to the cage when our daughter swung a big fat plastic bat. She came running in with Pancake and handed him to me saying, "Do something with him!" I was not expecting that so I laid him on the floor and he looked like he was dead. His head was tilting and his left eye was almost shut. We rubbed him, hugged him, gave him water, said some big prayers, and within a few hours he was hopping around the house. Even the dog let Pancake snuggle next to him.
He is an amazing little animal. He loves to look over your shoulder, he's not afraid of anything.
