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Building a Bird’s Nest : Outdoors in April

April 11, 2011 by 17 Comments

Henry and I have been talking about making a bird’s nest for a couple weeks now.
This week it finally got warm enough to spend the entire morning or afternoon (or both!) outdoors.

To make our bird’s nest,
Henry and I headed outside to gather our

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Cupcake Masterpieces by the Future Baker

April 5, 2011 by 12 Comments

I had some work to get done at the Bakery this morning,
Henry tagged along.
[That's something new for me. 
Henry tags along with Dad to work at the Bakery quite often.
But never with me.]

I wasn’t sure how it’d

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Blowing Balloons!

March 29, 2011 by 4 Comments

Fan + Balloon + a Preschooler = repeated fun!

All I got to show is this short 12 second video
of Henry dumping his balloon from his bucket.
He dumps it in front of the fan in our upstairs hallway.
The balloon blows down the hallway.
Henry

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Food Tracks & Layered Play Dough

March 28, 2011 by 21 Comments

Making tracks with trucks and tractors in Play Doh is nothing new in this house.

Instead of vehicles, today we tried food!
 
[play food]

Craters made from grapes!

Corn on the Cob made nice rows.
And a fork?

It makes for a

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Balloon Badminton

March 21, 2011 by 9 Comments

What can you do with a couple of balloons?[Ideas are welcome!]I blew up a couple balloons and the first thing we did was:play Balloon Badminton!

I put together two rackets with paper plates and Henry’s drumsticks. I just scotch taped them on. [We did

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Box Flap Bridges & an Experiment

March 15, 2011 by 19 Comments

I think I can now be certified as a 
civil engineer.
What?
Experience would be needed?

Experience:
ABC Mat Road
Bubble Pop Road

and the latest : 
Box Flap Bridges

I had a ton of box flaps that I cut off from a

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Bubble Pop Road & More

March 1, 2011 by 18 Comments

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I order a lot of my baby supplies (formula, baby food, diapers) online.
My latest shipment came with a ridiculous amount of packaging.

I ordered a stovetop’s worth – it came in 3 gigantic boxes (above) and had about 1

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Flour Free Play & Self Portraits

February 21, 2011 by 25 Comments

Flour Drawing : Free Play with Flour

I set out a jelly roll pan with a layer of flour spread along the bottom.I intended this to be practice for drawing/writing with his fingers. Henry made a circle and that

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