I've been thinking a lot about how the similarities in the things God has made help to make the world beautiful.  Diversity is an impo...

If your party storage bin is anything like mine, it includes a few crepe paper rolls that have gotten..ahem...a bit out of hand. One gla...

If you've ever been captivated by a flowering tree in the spring or wondered how the cherry trees ended up in Washinton D.C. you shoul...

When I visited Europe as a child, I remember being struck by the Gothic stained glass windows, and particularly the rose windows found in ...

I tried this activity from Pink and Green Mama with preschoolers, and it was fun, but I think it would be a fabulous technique to try w...

It's a treat to be able to interview someone you admire who is an expert in a field you care about.  That's why, even though this ...

Did you know that painting with watercolors on sand dollars produces a really neat effect?  I didn't until the other day when my kids ...

Ever since I discovered the fun sticker and tape resist art technique that bloggers like Putti  Prapancha have featured, I've been gi...

The Sharpie Tie Dye method is not at all original to me.  I've seen it around Pinterest a lot, and as far as I can tell the first pers...

I figured Eric Carle's The Tiny Seed would capture the attention of the two-year-olds I would be teaching at last week's homescho...

A book we recently read together for our Five-in-a-Row preschool co-op, Storm in the Night , has lots of nighttime pictures in which t...

Well, I have to admit: My two-year-old couldn't do this activity at all.  (She can't blow through a straw yet, apparently) My ...

Here's a project that my four-year-old and two-year-old both participated in, and I think would have worked well if we had a wider ag...

I don't know what it is lately (maybe it's third trimester pregnancy), but messes around the house put me in such a grumpy mood th...

Since Thursdays are free days at the Blanton Museum of Art here in Austin we decided to take a visit.  To make it more fun for the girls,...

Check out these clever fall handprint ideas from around the web! 1. Turkeys from Share and Remember 2.  Candy Corn from The Educati...

Okra is one of the few crops that seems to be thriving in this part of the world these days.  (rotten Texas drought this summer).  We bough...

The girls and I spent some time this morning looking at fun mosaics from all over the world and time.  They especially liked these: I alwa...