by Ivory Soap | Oct 4, 2012 | Household, Kids' Stuff
I worked for ages trying to find out WHY all of the recipes online for water colors use a mixture of acid and base. It didn’t seem to make sense. But, when I tried the recipes with and without the fizzy reaction, the fizzies were far superior paints. Less...
by Ivory Soap | Sep 26, 2012 | Household, Kids' Stuff
You will need: mold plaster of paris water food coloring or tempera paint (we tried both…you choose) 1. Choose a mold. I think toilet paper tubes are too big. We use the skinny tube from the aluminum foil. Perfect size. 2. Better than the tubes themselves...
by Daisy | Dec 22, 2009 | Household, Kids' Stuff
I’ve been meaning to make a felt/flannel board for years and never got around to it. Nosing around I heard that glueing the fabric to the board is supposed to interfere with the static that helps the figures stick to the board. I’m not sure how true this...
by Daisy | Dec 7, 2008 | Household, Kids' Stuff
Five years ago, our kids were either unborn or largely immobile. We had a beautiful tree…..in an I-Grew-Up-Really-Close-To-Gatlinburg kinda way. Four years ago, we had no tree at all. Child 1 & 2 were too young to remember if we had a tree or not and we were...
