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Melissa | May 22, 2010
Our city holds a Sidewalk Chalk Festival each year where local artists come out to show their amazing artistic skills with chalk and try to get your vote. This along with yummy local diner food and the Kona Ice truck made this a wonderful experience! There were two main categories to vote for: high school [...]
Melissa | August 6, 2009
Today was our first official day back to school. I feel more confident than ever this year with our schedule and chosen studies. I plan on posting our studies and schedule soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share a piece of our first day with you. After our beginning studies this morning, [...]
Melissa | July 13, 2008
We love blueberries! We love to eat them fresh and bake them in homemade blueberry muffins. And now, we love to paint with them too! Once again, I owe this idea to my daughter Hannah. She had taken some frozen blueberries and rinsed them off to eat for lunch one day. When she was [...]
Melissa | May 19, 2008
During our nature time today, my daughter set about collecting all sorts of nature items to make a woodland fairy house! She had the most marvelous time using her imagination on this project. I told her in order for it to be proper, she must use all natural materials, and it must have all the [...]
Melissa | April 19, 2008
This is definitely our most favorite nature craft we’ve done yet! The clay nature prints turned out beautifully! This project took us a couple of days to fully complete, but it was WELL worth it. My original inspiration for this craft came from The Artful Parent. We started by setting out on a [...]
Melissa | April 8, 2008
This week as part of our Green Hour Challenge, which I’ll be posting about tomorrow, we collected a basketfull of nature items. This included moss, twigs/branches, rocks, briars, and small leaves. I found an idea for using our collected items from our Good Earth Art book. However, I improvised and changed it a bit to work with what [...]
