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Tennessee: Banjo Granny
You ever run into one of those books that is just a perfect bedtime book? This is one of them. It’s so sweet and soothing, and the kids all loved it. Amazon.com Widgets Banjo Granny is about a...
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Indiana: The Floating House
You hear a lot about people going West in a Covered Wagon. You don’t really hear as much about them going West other ways. This book was a great example of another way. This family floated West on a...
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Bible: David and Jonathan craft
One of my favorite stories of friendship in the Bible is the story of David and Jonathan. Jonathan’s father, King Saul, started off treating David as a son, but as he became more jealous he chose to...
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Craft Wars with Kids
The kids and I have been obsessively watching Craft Wars this summer. They love to see what the contestants are going to make with the challenge materials, and they will tell the contestants what...
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make a shelf marker for the library
Back when I was a teacher, at my very first school we had a fabulous librarian. She’d been a librarian for several years, so she had all sorts of great ideas she’d instituted. One of those was a shelf...
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Peg Doll Nativity: making the figures (part 1)
Yesterday I showed you how we made our Bethlehem. Today, I’ll show you part of how we made our figures for the peg doll nativity. Supplies: wooden peg dolls (I buy mine at Casey’s Wood Supply),...
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Poppins Book Nook: Harry Potter peg dolls
I had these grand ideas for this month. I was going to design a whole unit for Harry Potter, and create a lesson for each of the classes Harry takes. I even got started with these lessons…………. with...
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How to make a Senet board game
As part of our Ancient Egypt study we made a Senet board game in our history co-op last week. That took so long, I didn’t end up doing any of the other acitvities I had planned, but all of the kids...
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Bible: Gideon activities for kids
Just like there’s not always a lot of Deborah activities for kids, there’s not really a lot of Gideon activities for kids, beyond the “make a trumpet” and blow it craft. Which didn’t really excite me,...
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Together Box Review
I’ve been seeing all of these craft box subscriptions pop up all over the place. I’ve been curious, but I’ve never quite actually been curious enough to buy one myself. After all I’ve got a very full...
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