Archive for June, 2009
Tiny - Cool Colored Rice: An all-ages project!! (Weekly Unplugged Project)
Our Weekly Unplugged Project post for this week’s theme of tiny is coloring rice (a grain of rice is tiny, right?).
Not very original, but I was going to take this a step farther with a colored rice project. However this simple first step was such a HUGE hit with my kids of all ages and [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Everything Else!, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts, sensorial, toddlers.
Comments: 16
Worm Bin Update - NO VACANCY
(WARNING: If you don’t like worms, then skip this post!)
It was a very thrilling day today - our 2 lb. bag of Red Wigglers finally arrived!!
The Fedex driver had probably never had a more excited welcome than he got this afternoon. As my 8 year-old daughter put it: “Now we have millions and millions of [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Everything Else!, Unplugged Project, educational/homeschool, environment, gardening, nature, nature, outdoor fun, science projects.
Comments: 3
TV and Infant Speech Delay
I have been a very minimalist blogger lately, popping in once a week to post the Linky for the Unplugged Project. I guess I have been taking a bit of a refreshing blog break. Time and inspiration permitting, I might be up for writing a bit more often than I have been.
So, here [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Everything Else!, TV, studies/statistics.
Comments: 1
Mechanical - Weekly Unplugged Project
Photo credit: mconnors from morguefile.com
The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project is mechanical.
I have been away and just got back yesterday so this week’s Linky is late and we haven’t done our project yet. I think we’ll get to it later in the week though (I’ll be sure to put my link in below so [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, arts and crafts.
Comments: 3
Slippery - Worm Bin (Weekly Unplugged Project)
We have just added a new weapon to our arsenal against the heavy clay soil of Northern Arizona: our very own worm bin! In case you wonder what I am talking about, worm poop (more politically correctly known as “worm castings”) makes wonderful compost for the garden.
I didn’t pick the theme slippery with the [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project, educational/homeschool, environment, gardening, nature, science projects.
Comments: 6
Slippery - Weekly Unplugged Project
The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project is slippery.
We have a project to do that loosely fits the slippery theme and we’ll probably get to it tomorrow, or maybe Wednesday. I’ll be sure to put my link in Mr. Linky here when I have the post up.
Meanwhile, if you did a slippery Unplugged Project [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2009 under Activity Ideas, Unplugged Project.
Comments: 3