DIY
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The Weirdest Foods You Can Grow In Your Garden
What really fires our children’s imagination is the extraordinary. Whether this week’s fixation is monsters, aliens, magical powers, superheroes or mythical lands, it’s always the strange and the super that inspires them. If you’re struggling to get them excited about their vegetables, then use this knowledge to your advantage: here are some right truly magical, and sometimes monstrous, fruits and veggies that you can easily grow in your back garden. The process of growing produce in itself can inspire a sense of wonder in children. It also helps to get them more involved in the food they eat: tomatoes grown from seeds are inherently more interesting than those in…
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Day 11 :: Get Your Home Decluttered in 28 Days: Master Bedroom
How are you doing in our Home Challenge where we are working at de-cluttering and redecorated our homes in 28 days? You can jump in any day you want, and don’t worry if you skip a day or two. This isn’t a contest – just a communal effort on all our behalf. I have needed to get our place de-cluttered for some time now as we had/have too much stuff! I am not quite that bad where I need to be on that hoarders show (well, maybe you should see my garage first before you decide that), but it was a matter of things kept coming in…
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How To Make Fall Yarn Apples
How To Make Fall Yarn Apples This easy craft will yield a harvest of yarn apples in no time! Materials • Red and light green yarn, 3 feet for each apple • Brown and dark green pipe cleaners • Wire cutters (or good scissors to cut pipe cleaners) • Scissors • Cardboard Preparation: Cut pieces of cardboard 2 x 5 inches Bend each piece in half lengthwise, then open it again, so it is almost flat again. Instructions • Start wrapping the red yard around the cardboard. Try to go around 100 times, though 80 times will do. • Cut a brown pipe cleaner in half and…
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Day 10 :: Get Your Home Decluttered in 28 Days: Linen Closet
Oh joy! Decluttering the linen closet in our house was long overdue! Can you believe I am literally airing my dirty (well, the linens were clean but you get my drift) laundry on the site? I guess I want to let those of you know who might have a linen closet that looks a little (or lot) like mine that there is hope! Step by step we can get the house de-cluttered! Here are some steps I took and ones I read from the declutter masters on what to do when clearing out your linen closet. Here we go! Step One: Make Space. Clear off your bed…
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Easy Back-To-School Lunch Ideas
I have been hearing a lot of complaints from my daughter about her school lunch. And most days her lunch box comes home full. Yikes! She has been hitting the school cafeteria and her food choices are not quite as healthy as I would like them to be. So I went on a hunt for more recipes that I can easily do the night before (if I am that organized) or in the morning before she heads off to school (which is more likely). Below are some healthy recipes, eazy peezy ideas and even a few hot lunches as I have had this request too! Here’s to offering our…
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Cooking With Raddish
My kids like cooking. I often attempt to find jobs for them to pitch in with meal preparation, but I find myself in a rush to get the dinners made and forget to include them in the tasks that are suitable for them. I do try to find snacks or meals that they can play a role in, but searching for kid-friendly recipes that really give them the chance to get their hands in there can be time consuming. I was super excited when I stopped at the Raddish booth at the CHEA Homeschool Convention this past April. It was just what I had been looking for. I was…
