‘homeschool’ Information

...Lloyd & I used white glue and sparkles (thanks again Nonnie Keri!) on some and we used the wax technique again when dyeing the others - lots of fun! [Read more]

We finally planted our final tray of seeds this afternoon. Emeraude just loves playing in the dirt and is so curious about the entire process. We discussed differences in the sizes/types/colours of our seeds and tried to use what we learned from the last tray (sticking to one seed / square; not [Read more]

...recipe for the colouring solution. I melted parafin wax which Emeraude used a shishkabob stick to draw with on some eggs, we dipped a couple into it (just the ends) and also just drizzled the wax randomly on others. Lots of fun, they look great, just need to pick up some inexpensive baskets from [Read more]

Well, it’s been quite a bit of work but we are finally done! Yesterday Emeraude & I cut a ‘door’ into the pinata & filled it with the goodies bags we had made for her friends. We then taped the door shut and papier maché’d over that so it would be smooth for [Read more]

A couple weeks ago, Emeraude brought home a ‘dinosaur egg’ she had made at Nursery School (Her teacher,  Nickie is wonderful. Obviously called to hr work and constantly finding great, creative, imaginative crafts to do with the kids). The egg had instructions to ‘let dry for 5 [Read more]

...and if you live in a small town like us, where there isn't a specialty craft store, no problem, everything on the list can be bought at the grocery store/pharmacy [Read more]

...did not think of it as Emeraude had started singing and had me enthralled lol (she makes up her own songs about whatever is going on at the time and I really just sit back and enjoy the performance - I never know what tune she might come up with or what the lyrics will be like so she has me on [Read more]

Pet Plants – Springtime, Chinaberry.com.   too neat! I’m thinking maybe we could buy a carton of extra large eggs and make our own version of these (the ones they are selling come in ceramic eggs that look absolutely precious, and not terribly expensive but still out of our budget as I [Read more]

FROM MARTHA STEWART WEBSITE : http://www.marthastewart.com/article/egg-creatures Basic Egg Preparation    Blowing: Emptying eggs lets you save your creations. An adult should pierce egg at both ends with a utility knife, widening one hole a bit. Poke a straightened paper clip through wide hole; [Read more]

         Egg Creatures and more creative crafts projects, templates, tips, clip-art, patterns, and ideas on marthastewart.com It’s no secret that I love Martha Stewart but this is even cooler than her usual crafts and a must make for us before Easter… The only question is wether to [Read more]

I am feeling very good about my  recent progress towards having the Emeraude Exploring collection completed and published. Don’t let this give the wrong impression, you won’t be finding it at Chapters next week lol, but it is definitely moving forward in a very real way. This [Read more]

Second Story Press | A Toronto Publisher. The publishing house to which I am submitting our Emeraude Exploring collection… This is SO stressful as proposals are not my forte and I cannot wait until the part where we have been picked up by a publisher and are just working with deadlines for [Read more]

it’s much too late, I should be sleeping and am too tired to post so… Tomorrow is a big day, Emeraude has her dress rehearsal and so here is our morning in pictures, lol [Read more]

À matin j’espérais vraiment faire du ‘travaille d’école’ avec Emeraude et cela n’aurait pas pu mieux finir…  Nous avons travaillé dans un des livres que Grandmaman nous a trouvés sur ces voyages, pleins de couleur et d’autocollants – parfait pour Emeraude! Elle aime bien [Read more]

and then POW!! right out of the blue as Emeraude & I were making snack this morning the  balloon in the pinata pops! only problem is that we hadn’t yet gone high enough up the balloon so we put  a new one in and blew it up again until it filled out the shell of [Read more]