We got baby chicks last week.
Ten of them. They really aren’t much trouble to take care of. They just need warmth, clean food and water.
I figure the kids are learning some science and also about responsibility.
And, with any luck, we’ll have fresh eggs in about 5 months!
I wanted to have some reusable baggies we could use for picnics and my husband’s lunchbox. Of course, it is the green thing to do to reduce the amount of trash we put in our landfills. But, I will admit that my main motivation is economics. It seems sillly to keep buying baggies if I [...]
We keep a bag in our school room to put recyclable papers into. When I was putting everything away at the end of our school year, I noticed what a nice variety of colors of papers it had in it. I decided I’d try to make some homemade papers with some of them. I think [...]
This morning, the kids and I thinned the fruit on the fruit trees. The girls and I looked for big groups of fruit and pulled off the smallest ones, leaving only 2 per group. My 7yo isn’t quite tall enough to pick off the fruit, so he carried the bucket to collect the discarded fruit. [...]
This year for Mother’s Day, I made silhouettes of the children to give to the grandmothers. I bought 5×7 picture frames from Dollar Tree and painted them black. I also put a craft paint varnish on them.
I took profile pictures of each child, then made them the size I wanted using a graphics program. I [...]
The plants in our garden have really started to grow now that the weather is warming up. We have eaten radishes, spinach and asparagas from the garden. The peas and potatoes are shooting right up and so is the broccoli. Last night, we planted 4 types of tomatoes, 4 types of peppers, green beans, a [...]
