In elementary school, my favorite class was art. I fancied myself an artsy little kid, and outside of school, I loved to spend my time drawing. So in an art class (or a music class), I could feel success in a way that I couldn’t in, say, a math class. (I pretty much have to…
Arts and Crafts
Not Just for Kids
It’s in my nature as a preschool editor to pay a lot of attention to process art projects I see online. There are so many cool things to use when making process art! And what’s particularly amusing is that when I’m done pondering the benefits of a project for a preschooler, I usually think about…
Thank you, Ronald Reagan
I am neither a history buff nor a political pundit; however, I must give kudos to the United States president who designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice Cream Day. President Ronald Reagan called for all people of the United States to observe these two events with “appropriate ceremonies and…
Sign Here…
I wonder how your students would respond if you requested that they put their John Hancocks on their papers? I can hear them now. “Say whaaaat?” Today, January 23, is the birth date of John Hancock. Today is also National Handwriting Day in the United States. Coincidence? Not at all. Remember John Hancock was the…
A White Christmas?
This Friday, I am off to Michigan to spend Christmas with my parents. Growing up in Michigan, I feel that Christmas should look a certain way. It should involve snow—lots and lots of snow. Christmas in North Carolina, where I currently live, generally looks very brown and gray over the holidays. However, I’m clearly not…
Are You Decorating?
Yesterday, I managed to get my Thanksgiving Day decorations all clustered onto my dining room table in preparation for storing them. That’s as far as I’ve gotten in regards to Christmas decorating. I have some very impressive friends on Facebook who have their entire houses decorated already. I feel like such a slacker! If, like…
Scary? Not So Much!
Scarecrows creep me out. I love fall, so it’s a “good creepy” and not a “bad creepy.” But there’s just something about a scarecrow standing out in a field with its ragged clothes and blank face that gives me the shivers. My opinions are the product of way too many horror movies. Do you know…
Are You Feeling Fall?
When I have difficulty waking up in the morning, I will usually lay in bed and check out Facebook on my phone. It’s an enormous phone, and its piercing light generally wakes me up a little. Anyhoodle, this morning, one of the first status updates I noticed was a gripe about fall coming. “The earth…
Picnic Pests!
Chances are, if you had a picnic or a cookout for this past holiday weekend, you ended up experiencing some ants or other buggy guests. (They all seem to gang up on me whenever I’m outside. Bugs think I’m delicious.) To commemorate our uninvited picnic pests, I’ve made this sassy ant headband! I keep picturing…
Magical Muffin Tins
At some point in time in my personal Facebook history, I “liked” the Better Homes and Gardens page. So I’m occasionally taunted by ads that show gorgeous before-and-after photos of summer lake homes as well as delectable-looking recipes that contain a mouthwatering amount of cheese. (Oh cheese, how you tempt me…) Anyhoodle, this ad for…