Crayon Craft for Tactile and Sensory Seeking Children
Ingrid @ March 18, 2012 # 2 Comments
My kids each went through a phase where they would peel and break crayons. When I was a new mother I was slightly appalled at this. I hated coloring with broken crayons as a kid. I found however, that my kids either didn’t care about coloring with broken crayons or they didn’t care about coloring [...]
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A Career As a Lego Artist
Ingrid @ July 4, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Here are some interesting clips for people who love to work with Lego. My kids were fascinated when we watched it. Nathan Sawaya gets $60,000 for some of his sculptures. He’s really talented. He sums it up with, “I see the world in little squares.” © copyright 2010 www.renegade-scholar.com A Career As a Lego Artist
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Colorings
Ingrid @ July 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
There has been a lot of coloring over here. Tremendo has started coloring and writing some letters too. The letters he’s written so far are M, L, and the first letter of his name. He really likes M and L because of Mario and Luigi. We’ve been working with Handwriting Without Tears‘ wood sticks. For [...]
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I’m Making It, But Broken
Ingrid @ January 15, 2009 # One Comment
These past couple of months Tremendo’s conversational skills have been emerging. I’m quite pleased to report some back talk. Me: “Put your shoes away.” Him: “No!” Me: “TV is all done.” Him: “Don’t touch the TV!” There was also this… He spent quite a long time working on this one because he didn’t figure how [...]
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Family Drawing Time
Ingrid @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to The Creative Family by Amanda Soule, I got some nice ideas for Family Drawing Time. Basically, Family Drawing Time is when everyone sits down and draws at the same time, in their own sketchbooks. I got 5 navy-blue, 5″ x 7″ sketchbooks from various Amazon.com and Half.com vendors. They averaged about $4.90 each [...]
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