From the category archives:

family_crafts

how to make fake snot.

by Michal October 20, 2008Family

With all of the sobbing that has been going on it’s up to me to break the silence and share with you an important Halloween recipe: Snot. It’s simple, fun, and with a bit of research and curiosity, it can be educational as well. Not really. I’m thinking of putting this snot into the pillowcases [...]

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homemade teacher gifts.

by Allison June 10, 2008Family

My daughter is out of school for the summer, and before I get to the fun summer stuff I have a great find for those of you with children still in school. When it came time to give teacher gifts to Precocious’ teachers a couple of weeks ago, I froze with performance anxiety and chickened [...]

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how to: recycle old crayons into new ones

by Allison May 15, 2008Family

When P was a toddler {and we were in our college poor days} we used to make these for birthday gifts. We always have a vast supply of stubby crayon odds and ends in our craft containers and this is a really fun project to use them all up. IKEA has some great ice trays [...]

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umbrella shaped sugar cookies

by Allison April 3, 2008Family

{feel free to insert humming of “umbrella, ella, ella” here}. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything crafty with P. She’s got waaaay too many extracurriculars going on in her life and hardly seems to be at home anymore. {sigh} But this craft is definitely up her alley, and I’m going to make sure [...]

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