I always love recipes that simplify, and make our Christmas preparation easier. Well, this recipe is for a simple cookie dough that can be modified to make several different cookies. Ingredients:1 c. butter 1/4 c. chocolate chips (mini are best)1 c. icing sugar 1/3 c. dried cranberries & 2 Tbsp. walnut crumbs1 egg 1/3 c. red Christmas cherries chopped1 tsp. vanilla2 1/4 c. ... Read More »
Now I’m sure that most people have already carved their pumpkins on the weekend. For me, procrastinating paid off- instead of carving with four boys on indoors on a cold rainy day, we took our pumpkins outside and carved them in the beautiful sunshine today! And left the mess outside! Here’s a quick tip that we’ve been using for years to ... Read More »
This is a fun craft to do with children who are able to use scissors pretty well (ie. Grade 2 and up). What I do is tell the story first with my paper, then have the children re-tell the story with me while making the craft. Materials: Orange, black and green construction paper Scissors Glue Fold the paper in half, hold ... Read More »
I LOVE strawberries and strawberry jam. I always thought that making jam meant working for hours in the hot summer in a hot kitchen over a hot stove, doing the whole canning process (which I’ve never really done before). I thought that the no-cook varieties (ie. freezer jam) was cheating. But the more that I looked into it, and the ... Read More »
MR – Having spent a semester in Paris, I’m very partial to French foods, especially crepes. You can get sweet dessert crepes or savoury dinner crepes. You can buy them from a stand on the corner, and they are still amazing! My dad always used to make the best crepes (we called them Skinny Pancakes). We knew whenever it was ... Read More »
After we did these Coffee Filter Easter Eggs, I saw this craft a few weeks back and thought it would be an easy, fun activity. It looked simple enough that we just used the image as an inspiration for our own creations. I love doing stained glass with clear contact paper, because there’s no glue, and virtually no mess. We did these ... Read More »
I saw this pin a few weeks ago for making easter eggs with coffee filters, and I thought it was pretty cute. We’ve already made snowflakes and butterflies with coffee filters, but I thought we’d try these. I had a house full of boys for the day (aged 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1) and this craft was great for ... Read More »
This was a fun craft we did, along the same lines as the Nativity Stained Glass. I love doing the tissue paper stained glass on clear contact paper because you don’t get all that sticky mess from the white glue! We got the idea from this post at “I Can Teach My Child.” I had the boys cut strips of ... Read More »
We did this marble activity last year – I don’t even remember where I first saw it. For my 3-year old, it was an activity to identify lowercase letters. I wrote the lower case letters in the egg carton and put a marble inside. He would close it, shake it up, and wherever the marble landed, he would have to ... Read More »
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