By the time I finished making these squishy velcro balls, I was really, really good at it ! It is good to learn to make things by hand. We can become used to short-cuts and I am here to tell you that I learned patience while making these. …
Here it is. Our Summer Gathering again. Grandpa and I think about it for a long time before it actually happens. We want you to have fun with us, your cousins and your siblings. We start early in the spring to make it so. Here are many of the activities we …
(Family Gathering Activity Preview) Plastic containers from the dollar store, large colored buttons from JoAnn’s and a thrifted kitchen timer borrowed from the playroom stove. That’s it. These are easy for the little fingers of tiny people who no longer put buttons in their mouths. Six containers of six different colors …
( Family Gathering Activity Preview ) When I was a young mother, a fidget toy was anything you handed to your child to distract him and keep him quiet. In church it was a book or a piece of paper and a pencil. In the car it might have been something from your …
(Family Gathering Activity Preview) Some things can be overdone but I am here to say that I have “bought in” to the whole idea of sensory stuff. I have watched upset children calm down when their little fingers came in contact with something soft, squishy, bumpy, warm or textured. I was …
TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO MAKE IT PERSONAL The older I get the more fascinated I am with the efforts and accomplishments of my ancestors. Faced with difficulty and few of the finer things of life, the women managed to create beauty in small ways. I suspect that their small, personal, …
HOW WILL YOU EVER DECIDE ? This post contains the last group of puppets for our Summer Gathering. There are many puppets in this batch and they are medium to small in size. There is a Moose whose friend is a Walrus. and a Walrus with tusks just like …
( lady bug.alligator.wolf.turtle.iguana.dinosaur.meerkat.gibbon.fishies.pink snail ) The Little Turtle Vachel Lindsay There was a little turtle. He lived in a box. He swam in a puddle. He climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea. He snapped at a minnow and he snapped at me. He …
Dear Grandchildren: Thinking twice is always a good thing when you are around big, red, alligators. This one has been very nice to me. She even let me dress her in a sweater and fix her funny, greenish hair into curls. She is as long as the playroom table and …
Hey, Grandchildren: Here is another “this-from-that” puppet for our summer gathering. This-from-that means that a person makes something useful out of something else. This animal is now a puppet and with your help he will be able to walk and talk and wiggle and flop. Wow ! Won’t he love you …
