We’re using felted wool sweaters to make stockings or mittens. One large sweater, felted, makes a single stocking or two pairs of kid-sized mittens – sometimes both! Look for as close to 100% wool – including mohair, alpaca, and merino – as you can find. To felt your sweater(s), wash it in HOT water with …
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Too much? Possibly, but we’re whipping through projects lately, so… Let’s sew something! Please bring your scrap felt + fabric this week for some sewing practice. These pictures look super feminine, which wasn’t my intention. But as Wilder has sewn a knife, I swear there are more gender-neutrally inspiring things that I can’t find pictures …
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The way some people collect things… It’s fun to share the things that inspire us! This week, we’re bringing our collections to present and share. These do not have to be fancy, or even grouped and labelled – just bring whatever you guys collect. For example, we have jars of found glass, pinned bugs, myriad …
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It’s going to be excellent weather for outdoor play this week – in the 50s! Bring costumes if your kids still want to play in them, and we can still do all of the Halloween games we’re interested in. But topic-wise, I’m moving outside! Let’s try our hand at telling time using the sky and …
It’s a party! Come with your Halloween best – ALL of you! – with, probably, a spare outfit for playing outdoors (or keeping warm indoors). There’ll be lots of snow. I’ll bring the traffic cones to block off the turnaround, so the kids can employ the full driveway to build forts for 10-30 minutes at …
Pumpkin-shaped inspiration! We’re going to paper mache some stuff. Please bring a form – something to mold – if you’d like to do bowls, or balloons if you’d prefer to pumpkin. We’ll need lots of newspaper as well, so bring whatever you have lying around that isn’t shiny. Some kid-prep links include this video about …
https://www.creativebug.com/lib/jeffcolibrary It’s a smorgasbord! We’ll start the day with Artist Trading Cards, little business-card-sized pieces of art. Not a lot of commitment, but they’re pretty fun to make. Bring some scissors, glue, and any old magazines we can cut up. Annie and I will bring a variety of pens and some pre-cut paper. If you …
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Switching to a different project this week in order to accommodate Dace’s absence – we’ll delay the window stars on her behalf. Let’s bring acrylic paints and brushes to share, along with some brushes. We can collect inspiring nature stuff and turn it into artwork with paint or sharpies. If you have cool sticks, rocks …
Sample star – and here’s a video tutorial We’re starting the day by setting up our charcoal grill to cook some rainbow food for our shared meal. Using the grill isn’t mandatory, but it should be fun! Annie is making GF blue cornbread, Dace will bring veggie chili, Christine will bring something sweet and orange, …
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA All the many ways to weave with different types of cord and materials. Let’s try our nature weaving skills first. We’ll use macrame cord to build a “loom” between trees where the kids can use sticks, grass, flowers and other found objects to weave with nature. We can leave this up at …
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