Summer is nearly here! I wanted to share something fun we’ve done to commemorate it’s beginning. You might want consider this for your family for Memorial Day, if you don’t already have plans. The backyard campout! Growing up my family used this activity as our traditional celebration of the last day of school and the […]
Camping Birthday Adventure
October 3, 2011 by 58 Comments
My son has had some pretty cool birthday parties in the past. While the robot, pirate and rocket parties were huge successes, I wanted this year to be a little different. Partly because the thought of a dozen 7-year-old boys wreaking havoc in my home wasn’t appealing, and partly because my husband begged me to simplify a […]
Smore Fun Classroom Treats
September 2, 2011 by 29 Comments
In the tradition of my non-traditional classroom treats, I’m sharing the smores I will be taking to my son’s class in about an hour in honor of his birthday. Like many other schools around the nation, our school has a ban on homemade food for class parties. We could launch into a discussion about whether […]
Kids’ Camping Craft
July 2, 2010 by 6 Comments
As you read this, I am probably in the mountains somewhere in the wilderness of Utah with my baby strapped to me entertaining a bunch of school-aged children that are somehow related to me. I am reposting one of the craft projects we did with the kids last time we had this family reunion, two […]
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