Doing crafts is one interesting way to spend time with children. As a homeschooling mother, the kids and I look forward to these activities where they get to experiment and work with paints, glue, scissors and different art materials.
Why, we even made our own Christmas decor last Christmas. We made paper stockings, personalized gift tags, and photos on the tree.
Below is one craft we made last year:
When using paints, it is important to have the children wear something to protect their clothes, like a big old shirt or an apron.
Cover the work area with paper so that the paint will not flow on the table and make a mess.
Go get those art materials now and spend quality time with your children 🙂
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about you at the intro.php file in the theme folder. just a little bit to introduce yourself and then
give a link to your about page.
If you upload your own profile.jpg into the theme's images folder, it would show up above.
The theme for this week is STEAMED.
I admit we don’t do a lot of steaming here (expect with sweet corn) and it was just last week that I have started to try doing so.
These were being sold cheap in the supermarket last week so I got me two big heads for only PhP35.00 each. I steamed these and just put a little bit of salt and pepper. Yum!
Every Saturday participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is FURRY.
Okra buds, my other entry is here.
I am featuring our (almost new) dog, Chichi, an American Pit Bull Terrier who came to our home three months ago. He is our only APBT now because Sparky (who is probably in heaven) died last month.
She is not really furry compared to toy dogs and other herding dogs because she is a short-haired breed. We prefer to have this kind than the long-haired ones that need grooming (these can be expensive) and shed unwanted hairs that can cause asthma.
Contrary to what others believe, pit bulls are friendly (except when they are together with other dogs and/or smaller animals and other APBT) and very playful.
Snacking turned differently when I re-learned how to bake stuff. We have not been buying the usual biscuits and cookies because the children (and hubby and I as well) have been eating home-baked goodies.
I baked every other day since a 9×9 baking pan of brownies or several batches of mini-loaves and muffins are gone before 48 hours.
Last Monday we had these in our lunchbox for our snacks:
More about it here
Eye-candy is the theme for Lasang Pinoy Sundays which became Lasang Pinoy Tuesday for me due to phone line problems. Hello PLDT, it has been 5 days already!
Anyway, during the past few weeks of the Christmas season, the influx of eye-candy food is varied and oh-so-tempting that anyone with sweet tooth would not resist getting a bite, or two, or maybe even more than that.
A dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts, colourful, sweet, flavourful and yes, tempting. It may not be a Filipino sweet treat but it captured the Filipino palate
Who would care for a piece of two of that colorful candy sprinkled one or the cookies and cream? What about the snowman over here?
I do!
And now I need to go get some weight loss supplements 😀
Every Saturday, participants post photos based on a theme. The theme for this Saturday is CHIPPED.
Things that chip easily are those made of glass, ceramic and wood. In my other entry, I featured a chipped (old) historical wall.
Below are two photos of a wooden bench. The first one shows a chipped portion on the arm rest. The second one shows how big and how long the wooden bench is.
Chipped arm rest. of course, its wood and it can be chipped easily but then again, if you see how the bench looks like, chipping is not easy to happen.
This is how long and how heavy (I don’t know how heavy exactly but it looks very heavy indeed) the whole bench looks like:
This is one of the many wooden benches in a place called Tiendesitas where Filipino goods can be bought. We love going to this place because the children get to see a lot of pets being groomed and dressed up. Weekends also mean dog shows 🙂
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