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REALLY Easy Fall Votives

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This simple votive candle idea makes a nice little gift or a creative way to use some of the leaves you collect during an Autumn nature walk. You could also create a few to sit on your dinner table during your Thanksgiving Dinner to add a little something special to the setting.
Plus it’s a nice [...]

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Spider Crafts – Part 1

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With Halloween starting to creep up on us, I thought it was about time to start posting some Halloween crafts.  Spider crafts seemed like the natural place to start — especially since they are EVERYWHERE right now at my house.  I don’t mind doing the crafts, but I really don’t like the creepy little critters [...]

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Foam Rose Craft – Video

This foam rose craft project is probably best left to bigger kids, but it would be a really great craft idea for Girl Scouts. It would also work really well as a classroom craft or a Boy Scout craft if you’re group wanted to make gifts for Mother’s Day, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, etc.
The timing [...]

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Making Math Fun

As a lot of you already know, I began homeschooling my children this year. In fact, we actually started playing around with some things this summer (before the regular school year starts) to try to figure out exactly where the kids were at academically and emotionally.
It didn’t take very long to figure out where [...]

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