Category Archives: Arts and Crafts

The plight of Floam & Immunizations

I was thinking about getting floam for my son, as he loves playdoh, but since reading about the not-so-wonderful experiences others like my new friend Angie has had, I don’t think I will be sinking my money into that pit. I was also pretty enthralled by her thoughts about Immunizations. We have been delaying his [...]

Brighter Vision: Friends Near and Far

I got another unit yesterday. Weird, because we just got the other one. Well, it came with a cd that reads the book to you. He already did that. He also made the small scrapbook and has been putting his artwork in it. I think we will begin to do that with his larger art [...]

I shouldn’t stare at other mothers’ blogs

I get too overwhelmed by the joy that is their child through their eyes. I lose all the affirmation that I am doing alright with my son. It’s like looking into a cracked mirror with the silver wearing off the back. There are holes in the reflection and it’s all distorted. Yes, distorted. I think [...]

He can count by 20s?

Yes in recent news, he can count by 20′s and it’s pretty shocking to me LOL He can also recognize/predict words by the sounds the letters make. This morning he was playing his new Sesame Street V-smile game and he was rhyming words pretty well. I am proud of his progress. He is also picking [...]

Snowmen are finally done

You have to see this. They came out great. We used: Egg carton felt beads white tempura paint glue toothpicks chair padding We had fun making them. His has eyebrows on the man because that’s what he wanted to do! It was also his idea to make a man and a woman snowman. You take [...]

Our Christmas projects

Okay so we did make the angels for the tree, only 2 of them, and they are made from a spoon and a rag. My son decided to make multi-cultural angels, though, so one of them has a black face. We didn’t have any other marker colors out, so I guess he thought that was [...]

Don’t jump in the shower!

That’s what he told my mother today when she said she had to go so she could jump in the shower. My son chimes in with a very stern look on his face “Don’t jump in the shower! You’ll get in trouble for being bad and hurt yourself!” When he was visiting his other grandparents, [...]

Yesterday’s fervor & Today’s task

My son had the wind of inspiration with him yesterday as he breezed through about six pages of his new workbook from Brighter Vision and helped me make stand up animal cutouts. He was still asking for more workbook pages when I got tired! His phonics skills are getting stronger. He only made a few [...]

His sense of artistry

This was his own invention. He loves to do things like this:

Brighter Vision and New Games

We did the scarecrow face from one of his new workbooks today. He also did a page with mazes and another with count and circle the number of animals. We played the animal bingo game together, talked about how each word was spelled and the differences between a few of the animals that looked similar [...]