Showing posts with label life learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life learning. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Our adventure of the day took us to Wooden Toys and Crafts, a place where we could build, create and get messy!  We had not been before, but heard from a few of our dear friends that it was certainly a fabulous place, and one worth checking out.  So, we bundled up and headed out with this as the destination of our morning adventure.

Mr. Bob's workshop is full of toys that children can build and paint.  It's incredible how many projects there are to choose from!  There are things just to paint, or things to build and paint.  You can either work there or take the item home with you and create it later on.  We however, chose to work there.  After all, you can't pass up the chance to work in a workshop like that!  Once the girls had decided which projects they wanted to make Mr. Bob (as we called him) helped us get all set up. The girls quickly got to work:

The shelves contain baggies of each project they have available.  It's amazing how much there is to choose from, and a little overwhelming the first time you visit!
Each of these bins are filled with various parts.  Emma was in heaven as soon as she saw the vast amount of things in each of them!
Mr. Bob had explained to us how to assemble the spin tops we chose as our building project of the day. However, he must have quickly realized that this was the first time we'd worked with a hammer (or it was obvious that this mama has been out of woodshop class a very long time) and came over to provide some tips and guidance on how to teach littles to use hammers.
Checking the top out to make sure it works.  Great work, Em!
It took a little encouraging for Grace to use some force to hit the hammer hard enough to get the pieces to join, but once she did the goal was quickly achieved!
Painting the tops.
After the girls were done painting their spin tops, one at a time they came with me to choose a project to bring home to make for the others Christmas gift. It is the first year that the girls are choosing gifts for each other, and rather than take them to a store we felt it would be great if they made their gifts for each other.  Someday, I would love for our family to make each others Christmas gifts instead of purchasing them, but for now we'll simply start with the girls making gifts for each other.

What a wonderful way to spend a morning and a great way to introduce the girls to building and creating wooden toys!  There are certainly more trips to visit Mr. Bob and his wonderful workshop in our future!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Helping...





is super fun!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

We have a new computer in our house!  Our desktop died many months ago, and while I was pulling for us to become a total Mac family, the price of the Dell could simply could not be beat.  With a lovely new computer in the house now seemed like a really good time for Grace to improve her computer skills. 



She is off to a fantastic start!  

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Behold!  You are about to witness Miss Emma learning to trace a shape!
Notice the large diamond paper weight near Em.
Keep in mind that she is only two and a half. 
Look at her go!
There is nothing like a little time spent creating at the table with your gramma,  
You never know what they will master next.  

Look closely.  
Grace and Gramma had a wonderful time creating this masterpiece together. 

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

















While it was totally way more work than we had expected, the memories that were made and the information learned (by all of us) was beyond worth it.  Seeing my two littles get so excited about what we were doing was priceless.  They dug right in.  Got messy.  And grew in their skills and knowledge base.  So much was practiced. Questions asked.  Answers given.  New things tried.  And through it all the rhythm of our home, of our day, was a simple, peaceful one.  As if this is what we do every September first.  And perhaps it will be.