I promised a reminder … here it is!!!!!
REMINDER: Please link to your Spiral Unplugged Project before tomorrow night: Sunday, February 28th. Links go here. On Monday, March 1st at some point I’ll close the Spiral Linky and post a new theme for the month of March.
We did another neat Spiral Unplugged Project today based on our first Spirograph fun. I’ll be sure to get the post up before I close the linky.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, then please read more here about the Monthly Unplugged Project.
The theme for this month’s Unplugged Project is spiral. All along I had been thinking Spirograph and dug out my old Spirograph sets (yes, I am a packrat!), but we haven’t had a chance to play with those yet.
Coincidentally, my husband gave each of the kids a gift bag full of Valentine’s Day goodies, including a very cute, small, heart-shaped Spirograph-type toy! They pulled those out this afternoon and had a blast with them. It was their first time playing with such a thing (although the results reminded the kids of our very fun string art project).
It is still a bit hard for my 4 year-old to manage on her own (holding frame still and keeping the gear tracking along the teeth), but she loved it and it seems like a great exercise in fine motor skills.
When I was a child, the classic Kenner Spirograph was as ubiquitous as Crayola Crayons or Play-Doh. Everyone had one! But nowadays, as far as I can tell, this is considered a “vintage toy” that can only be found at places like Ebay. Am I vintage too?? Feeling a little old here…
Anyhow, I have lots of not-so-vintage ideas of things to do with our Spirograph creations. Hopefully we’ll get to try them and post about it before the end of the month.
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Welcome to the new Monthly Unplugged Project!
February’s Unplugged Project theme is spiral. Remember, the theme will be up for a month now instead of just a week. I will close this linky on March 1st and also open up a new one for a new theme.
The “rules” are basically the same:
- If you do a spiral Unplugged Project, then please link to your project post, not just your blog. I am trying to build a library of project ideas, so we want people to always be able to find your project in the future.
- If you don’t do a spiral project, then please DO NOT LINK. I will remove any links that clearly do not fit the theme at all, no matter how nice your blog is. Sorry, nothing personal, but I just want to keep this organized.
- A link back to Unplug Your Kids in your project post would be greatly appreciated! :-)
- If you have the time, energy, and inspiration to come up with more than one project for spiral, then feel free to link to each spiral project separately in the linky.
- If you have no blog, then please leave a comment on this post with a description of what you did. The more ideas we get, the better!
The Unplugged Project is very flexible. The point is to be creative and have fun!
(I will have the buttons available later in the week.)
THE LINKY IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO JOINED IN!
It appears to be unanimous! Thanks so much for all the great comments and feedback. We’ll keep the Unplugged Project, but it will become monthly instead of weekly.
- On the first day of every month, I’ll post the theme.
- Reminders: I’ll put the theme prominently in the sidebar and I can probably also put on one of those countdown timers to let everyone know how many days are left. I’ll also write a reminder post when only one week is left.
- Anyone who wants to do more than one project per theme can link to each of their projects.
- On the last day of the month, I will close down that project’s linky.
- I will make some sidebar buttons available to anyone who wants to take one, however you certainly don’t have to.
NOTE ON LINKIES:
A few of you mentioned that you were confused as to how to link. For anyone who has never linked before and who has been trying to link to an old project theme, you will find that you can’t. That is because I have shut down all the old linkies since I can’t monitor them all continuously for spam. Links already there can be followed, but no new links can be posted.
When the new, open linky is there I think you will find it fairly obvious. You just enter your name, and the link to your post, not simply your blog, so people can always find your project. To link to a post, click on your post, that should open up your post as a page. Copy the address from the address bar in your browser and paste it in my linky. The address should usually be something like http://www.”Your blog”/”Your Post,” (or other words, dates and numbers).
Thanks again, and I hope to see you all February 1st for our next Unplugged Project theme!
I have been a bit burned out on the Weekly Unplugged Project lately. We just don’t seem to get to it every week and it has become more of a Blog Burden for me, then a Blog Benefit. Plus, public participation seems to be waning along with mine. Sigh… Time for a change.
I have heard from a few people who are still interested. I am still interested too, but now that my children are older I can no longer get to it every week and it MUST NOT become a chore. The point is for it to be fun. So, I have a new plan.
How about a Monthly Unplugged Project? I will announce a theme on the first day of the month, and close the Linky on the last day of the month. That will give everyone (including me) a month instead of a week to come up with a project, do it, write about it, and link to our posts (and/or leave our project in a comment). Those with more time and enthusiasm could do as many projects as they want for each theme.
Over the years I have also been contemplating creating “Unplugged Project Buttons” that people could download and which would link to the project. Button display would be entirely optional of course, but I have had some requests from people over the life of the project, so I guess interest is out there.
After about two years, I am finally getting to the buttons, and have even created a few! Once I figure out some of the technical issues, I’ll put them out for any interested readers to take.
How does it all sound?
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