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Eye of the Dragon-Easy Projects for Little Ones

Jul11

This was one of our 4 year old projects, though it takes days, so we should have started it on Thursday when she was here all day. We started it on Friday, Saturday it had begun cracking out of his shell. And Saturday evening when I was taking care of baby, we saw the eye of the dragon. My granddaughter is fascinated with it and kept checking it constantly. First thing when she woke up, she had to check on the dragon’s egg and was so excited to see it had cracked. lol When I pick her up from school, I’ll have to drop by the house first to show her the dragon’s eye before I take her home.

She also did this suncatcher. The first one, just starting out, the 2nd when it was still wet, and the third one when it was dry. It’s really cute. We have 12 of them to do, so we can play with them once a week. It helps with coordination and she did it all by herself, though I took a q-tip to remove some of the paint off the black lines on the balloon. I might not have needed to, not sure.

But it was easy for a 4 year old to do.

We also created rice cake treats with cereal faces. The ones they showed in the magazine were bigger. These were a little too small. But she had fun, added peanut butter and then the decorations. They showed a mix of fruit and cereal, but ours just weren’t big enough.

I’m over halfway done on proofing Saving the White Cougar, and edits are coming in for You Had Me at Cougar, so for the next few days I’ll be concentrating on getting those done, then back to trying to figure out the Christmas stories!

It’s supposed to be 94 here, which, with heat index, will be about 104. So good day to stay home and work on the books!

Have a lovely day!

Terry

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Making an Easy Craft with a Preschooler

May7
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These flowers were super easy to make and they look really cute–unlike some crafts I do with my granddaughter. I usually don’t have any of the craft materials to do stuff like this, so I finally bought some of the mixed size pompoms to do projects with and then she’s wanted to do them every day she’s over here. It’s fun teaching them crafts when they’re simple, turn out cute, even for an amateur like me, and not too many materials.

These are the flowers my granddaughter and I made from: cupcake liners, the middle one cut down to size. They could be mini-cupcake liners, but we found a package, no price tag and I didn’t get it, but this worked even better. The others were plain white. This makes it colorful and cute and we could vary the colors. She made all the choices on the colors and helped me glue the pieces together. You were supposed to use a green paper straw, but we couldn’t find anything like that.

My granddaughter and I had a tea party, made more flowers, and planted more flower seeds. I didn’t have her for as long yesterday, so I was able to work on the story again. I printed out pages last night so I could work on it because after a while, I can’t see the mistakes from screen to screen after so many hours of working on the computer.

I’m hoping that I can get this done by NEXT week. lol. I don’t think it’s doable by this weekend.

I’m torn in the morning when it’s nice and cool out and it’s going to heat up–plant flower seeds and daylilies? Take a walk? Pull weeds? Write????? I need to keep my nose to the grindstone, but I always need to do that.

I’m going to make my tea, and I’ve already fed the dogs and taken them out several times, fed the birds, added water to the little fountain, pulled some weeds and I’m going to take a walk, and then plant some seeds. Maybe the daylilies. And I need to tackle a humongous weed that I was waiting for it to do something interesting, but I think it’s just a weed. I actually have to get the shovel to it. There’s no pulling it out. And I need to dig up one last hibiscus tree. I couldn’t pull it up by hand.

I tried to order the variety that can take harsh winters, but they didn’t live (mail order). The ones I planted this last time were tropical and they sell them all the time in the area. My neighbors die back and always return, but this last winter’s week-long ice storm did them in. But my rule is that if I plant something and it struggles to live and dies, even if I have it in a good area where everything lives, it’s not meant to be in my garden. And I buy a lot of perennial flowers so they come back every year, then I add more each year.

I’ve noticed a few 5 foot weeds that I missed seeing. Sometimes I think they’re a flowering plant and I leave them. At least they’re easy to pull out no matter how tall they get. But I have a few weed trees I need to get rid of too, and if I don’t pull those up when they’re little, there’s no pulling them out by hand. They hide among tall shrubs or like one was hiding  in a youpon holly tree. The holly trees are dense, so I didn’t see the weed tree until it was un-pullable. Notice: un-pullable is a made up author word.

Well, I’m off to write and edit. Have a fun day!!

Terry

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