This craft goes along with day eleven of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. I forgot to post this yesterday! So sorry. We just made simple salt dough sheep to hang as ornaments on our Easter tree. Salt Dough Recipe 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 1/2 – 3/4 cup water Mix flour and salt […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Easter Memories
Fudge having fun with Easter eggs two years ago Growing up Easter was always a favorite holiday of mine. When I was little (under 6) my mother would throw Easter parties for my friends and cousins. I faintly remember running around the outside of our brick house looking for eggs. It was so much fun […]
An Easter Countdown: The Risen Lord
This craft goes along with day ten of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. To show how the tomb was empty on Easter morning we have done this craft every year since my oldest was very little. It has been so long since I’ve been using this that I can’t remember where I got the […]
Branding Time
A hundred or so calves face off against ‘real’ cowboys on horses and ranchers waiting to ear tag, immunize, castrate the bull calves, and brand. Sounds like fun, right? It is! Unless your one of the calves… We haven’t just been caught up in doing our Easter Countdown this past week. Branding was on Wednesday, […]
Snippets of Wisdom
There were so many good things to read in these week’s historical April 15, 1873 Women’s Exponent. I had a hard time deciding what to write on! So instead of trying to narrow it down I’m sharing some of my favorite ‘snippets of wisdom.’ The “influence of a smile” “There is nothing which makes the […]
An Easter Countdown: Calvary’s Cross
This activity goes along with day nine of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Can you believe we have never made hot cross buns before? We made this recipe (using raisins and dried cranberries). While the dough was rising we made stained glass windows – one of my children’s favorite art projects to do. Materials […]
An Easter Countdown: Betrayal and Trial of Jesus
This activity goes along with day eight of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. For our activity today we did another art study. I divided the children up into two groups. One group received The Flagellation of our Lord Jesus Christ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (above), the other group received Behold the Man by Antonio Ciseri […]
An Easter Countdown: The Atonement
This activity goes along with day seven of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Two simple object lessons were done today to show how Christ takes away our sins. The first was a replica of this one shown by Jocelyn with a white carnation and water dyed red. Although we could see pink tinges in […]
An Easter Countdown: He Instituted the Sacrament
This activity goes along with day six of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. The older ones (6 & up) did this worksheet as a review after our discussion today. I printed off this booklet and had my four-year old tell me the story using his own words while looking at each picture as a […]
An Easter Countdown: Jesus Taught the Truths of Eternity
This activity goes along with day five of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. For our activity today we focused on the portion of the Living Christ that states “and the potential for the sons and daughters of God in the life to come.” I held up an apple seed and asked my littlest ones […]
Simple Pleasures: Hummingbirds
As proof that artists find their canvases anywhere. Brownie took this long piece of cardboard destined for the trash . . . and on Sunday sketched and painted . . . this spring scene . . . of hummingbirds . . . and blossoms. It now hangs above my desk, brightening up this corner of […]
An Easter Countdown: The Miracles of Jesus
This activity goes along with day four of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Our children divided up into three teams – an older child paired with a younger one – and each team wrote down all the miracles performed by Jesus that they could remember. We then watched this video and I had them […]
Wordfull Wednesday Topic for April 20th
Easter Eggs in the Country by Victor Gabriel Gilbert Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays (Thanksgiving is the other). I have many fond memories growing up of fun Easter celebrations – both religious and secular. The next Wordfull Wednesday topic for April 20th is to write about an Easter memory you have […]
An Easter Countdown: Jesus Christ was Baptized
For day three of our Living Christ Easter Countdown we talked about John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. We discussed being baptized by immersion, and what it feels like to be clean. It lead to us singing: “When I am Baptized” (Children Songbook pg 103) 1. I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain […]
Sewing Basics: Learning About Your Sewing Machine
Sewing won the home making poll from last week so the next several weeks my home making posts will cover the lessons I teach my beginning sewers (ha! s-oh-er rather than s-ew-er). In our house my children are very spoiled. When they turn eight years old Grandma and Grandpa buy them their own sewing machine! […]
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