arts and crafts

Art Party

Why wait for someone’s birthday to throw a party? You may recall our 2014 Star Wars party (on May the Fourth, naturally) …

Last spring, the girls and I hosted a Star Wars party for their friends. We had just finished watching The Clone Wars …

As I’ve noted here before, we play a lot of board games in my family. Not so much the classic board games, …

The odds were 11 to 1. Actually, 11 to 2, since one of the parents stayed to help. Last Sunday on May …

Last week during the Winter Olympic opening ceremony, we never got around to making flags of the world out of Legos, but …

The nine-year-old turns into a ten-year-old this week. Double digits! While I was trying to wrap my brain around that, Hannah had …

A few years ago I learned about the practice of sketchnotes, which Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook, calls “purposeful doodling while …

As national treasure Bob Costas observed half a dozen times last night during the Olympics opening ceremonies, this was the fastest moving …

I figure I should blog about the last week and a half since it went by so fast, I’m not likely to …

My girls love their arts and crafts. I figured out pretty quickly that I can’t save everything they create, but I can …