Fall 2016

 Are you starting to get ready for the holidays?  For our family members and friends (other than kids), we like to make donations in their names.  We add an element that the kids made to make the gift...

Find the full tutorial for this seasonal twist on body tracing...

 Our daughter has been quite interested in fairies after our neighbour gave her a most beautiful fairy door, so we collected various items and made an afternoon of creating fairies and their small...

The costume adds an additional component to portrait drawing and could be fun both at home or in a school setting drawing each other in a partnership or setting it up as a centre.   Materials Easel...

The kids watched a documentary about Monarch butterflies on Netflix called "Flight of the Butterflies" which coincides with their southern migration.  They were fascinated with this process and the...

I can't say I ever used Flash Cards for their intended purpose, usually employing them as a visual word bank for students learning English while teaching in Toronto, converting them into games etc.  This is...

Our good friends gave us Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect so when we saw that a third book in the series Ada Twist, Scientist was coming out before one of the their birthdays we decided to...

With nature as an inspiration point, this activity up-cycles a telephone book! Materials Telephone book or newspaper (usually we decline the phone book, but we missed them this year and we found it on...