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Seed Sprout Necklackes Grow With Your Heart
These seed necklaces provide just enough moisture and warmth, thanks to a little one’s heart, to sprout a seed. Once you have roots, and a couple of leaves, your seed is ready to transplant to your garden. Here’s how to make your own seed necklace: Start with a jeweler’s plastic bag — the small ones. Moisten a cotton ball with water and insert into bag. Add a seed of your choice. This one is a loofah gourd seed. Close plastic bag, and make a hole just big enough to push twine through. Run twine through hole, and adjust length and knot twine so that the seed packet falls right about…
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I once thought Lincoln Logs were natural toys
We were reluctantly roped into this adventure by an unrelenting 5-year-old, that spent a little too much time looking at the suspiciously hand-drawn (note that the author had no actual pictures) of 3-d sculptures made from sticks and moss in the book Nature’s Art Box. By the end of two hours, however, each one of us were privately engulfed in a world that revealed the challenges that architects and engineers must face daily, with a fleeting glimpse into the magical world of miniature, where toads, bugs and maybe fairies habitat our world right along beside us. “I wonder who just might live here?†Certainly not a frog, I was reminded;…
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White Christmas Ornaments
A recipe to make white Christmas ornaments that will last for decades.
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Making Valentine Boxes
Ideas for creative Valentine boxes, using recycled materials, including the Panera Bagel Box to be used for school parties, especially ideas for boy valentine boxes. Includes instructions for a Basketball Valentine Box.
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How to make a Halloween Costume in one night
Your secret weapon here, is the microwave. “Micro Papier Mache” lets you cheat, and make just about anything in just one night. All you need is the perfect mold. In this post, you’re going to have to use your imagination, a bit. I’m going to give you some basic how-tos, that you can translate into any costume you want; whether you want to be a comical adult version of a Princess, a Pirate, or an Elf, or, in this case, Pinocchio. Here’s my tutorial on how to make a Halloween Costume in the microwave. The microwave saves you time — you can make this the night before, easily, no sweat.…
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