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THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.CRUNCHY AND CREAMY
Well, I am finally back on the DB posting wagon. I actually did the last month's challenge as a birthday cake for my husband, but I was underwhelmed by my results (fatigue, morning sickness genuinely not great cake?) and not motivated to post. This month, however, was delicious, easy, and IAUTUMN WREATH
Ever since the leaves began to turn and then fall, we've been collecting them with the senselessly acquisitive mindset of crows. Having accumulated a large paper bag full, we decided to display our loot in a festive manner and a cold rainy day seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it. IKEY LIME PIE
It began as a random craving brought on by an innocent bag of key limes on sale at the co-op. It turned into a three day baking odyssey that culminated in a pie which was, admittedly, tasty, but perhaps not worth that much effort. To start with, I didn't have graham wafers forthe crust,
NANAIMO BARS
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca. It's a sugar filled blast from my past. I'm going to hazard a guess that I am one AND THEN IT GOT COLD! Well, not really cold, but cold enough for frost, and so it is time for hats. The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids' balaclava. Joann's was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and gotourselves some
LAPTOP SLEEVE
So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shoutout
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.CRUNCHY AND CREAMY
Well, I am finally back on the DB posting wagon. I actually did the last month's challenge as a birthday cake for my husband, but I was underwhelmed by my results (fatigue, morning sickness genuinely not great cake?) and not motivated to post. This month, however, was delicious, easy, and IAUTUMN WREATH
Ever since the leaves began to turn and then fall, we've been collecting them with the senselessly acquisitive mindset of crows. Having accumulated a large paper bag full, we decided to display our loot in a festive manner and a cold rainy day seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it. IKEY LIME PIE
It began as a random craving brought on by an innocent bag of key limes on sale at the co-op. It turned into a three day baking odyssey that culminated in a pie which was, admittedly, tasty, but perhaps not worth that much effort. To start with, I didn't have graham wafers forthe crust,
NANAIMO BARS
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca. It's a sugar filled blast from my past. I'm going to hazard a guess that I am one AND THEN IT GOT COLD! Well, not really cold, but cold enough for frost, and so it is time for hats. The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids' balaclava. Joann's was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and gotourselves some
LAPTOP SLEEVE
So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shoutout
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
THE LAZY GARDENER
Sometimes life gets busy and things like dates for seed starts pass you by. This spring was one of those years but gardening with my kids is a priority for me so we chose some things like sugar snap peas that are tasty, quick to grow to maturity, easy to grow, and very forgivingof
VINTAGE APPLES
There was a time when there were an astounding number of apple cultivars. Now, as with most modern agriculture, we have whittled that down to a dozen or fewer that are commercially grown. Luckily for all of us, there are some holdouts, like Vintage Virginia Apples, which has over 200 different kinds of apples growing CIABATTA | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS Nice loaf – that is a good book. I bake ciabatta right on parchment paper on the oven rack. Just slide it in from a cutting board. Also, ciabatta tastes way better the second day for some reason BIRTHDAY ON A BUDGET Pinata. There are different ways to make a pinata, the most traditional involving a clay pot. I used a balloon as my paper mache base because the only place I have ever seen the special pots for sale was in Mexico. Paper mache couldn't be easier, and if you have a reasonable tolerance for mess, CHICKEN TRACTOR PLAN There's something about a lot of grass that always makes me feel like there should be something productive eating it. The owners of the house we're in encouraged us to build a chicken tractor so we did. I started off taking many copious photos for anyone who wants to build their own to look at, ROCK, PAPER, FLOWERS It has been a while, but we've been in transit, and blogging without a computer is tough! Grandma was deadheading pansies today, and we were inspired to make some stationery. Materials required: smooth rocks, flowers, and some nice paper. All you have to do is smash the petals with the rock on the paper. The DOUBLE APPLE BUNDT CAKE What started out as a simple cake recipe to make for dinner on a cold and rainy day turned into a bit of a cooking odyssey, due to one ingredient. We were following Dorie Greenspan's yummy sounding recipe from her book Baking: From My Home to Yours, and we got to the linethat said:
MONTESSORI | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS This week has been all about buttons. It started with the reading of a Frog and Toad story about losing a button. At the end of the story, all the buttons that they find get sewn on a jacket to decorate it, which the kids thought was a great idea.LAPTOP SLEEVE
So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shoutout
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.THE LAZY GARDENER
Sometimes life gets busy and things like dates for seed starts pass you by. This spring was one of those years but gardening with my kids is a priority for me so we chose some things like sugar snap peas that are tasty, quick to grow to maturity, easy to grow, and very forgivingof
HAPPINESS IS A WARM HAT It occurred to me, as winter drags on and the drifted snows persist, that I am the only person in the house without a hat. When I stumbled upon a yarn sale, I decided that a new hat was definitely in my future. I bought some "Inca Gold" , a beautiful silk/ merino blend(20/
NOT YOUR MAMA’S SILKSCREEN But rather, your dad's! Allow me to explain. This year, for father's day, we made silkscreened t-shirts for the resident dad using a process that is significantly different from any silkscreening I have ever done. I remember cutting out stencils and such, but this time, my sister introduced me to the mysteries of using a LOVE DAY | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS In some circles, St. Valentine got celebrated yesterday. At our house, it was "love day", complete with super sweet cupcakes and some home made cards and jewelry. The big people all got hearts cut out of felted wool and sewn on a safety pin. Our littlest sweetie was deemedtoo small for
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HIGH HEELS AND THE NORTH FACE They are calling for up to three feet of snow in the next couple of days and all my serious winter gear is in another country. Those thoughts were getting me down this morning until it occurred to me that I have yards of stretchy waterproof fabric and a sewing machine,which led me to
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A poem for my friend Jess. Snow soaked clouds flow over a rocky basin like cold honey from an overfilled mason jar, wave whipped willows luff in a spring swollen lake, driftwood stump a pirate ship for monkeys, ponderosas defying one last snowfall dress in spring’sfreshest
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.THE LAZY GARDENER
Sometimes life gets busy and things like dates for seed starts pass you by. This spring was one of those years but gardening with my kids is a priority for me so we chose some things like sugar snap peas that are tasty, quick to grow to maturity, easy to grow, and very forgivingof
HAPPINESS IS A WARM HAT It occurred to me, as winter drags on and the drifted snows persist, that I am the only person in the house without a hat. When I stumbled upon a yarn sale, I decided that a new hat was definitely in my future. I bought some "Inca Gold" , a beautiful silk/ merino blend(20/
NOT YOUR MAMA’S SILKSCREEN But rather, your dad's! Allow me to explain. This year, for father's day, we made silkscreened t-shirts for the resident dad using a process that is significantly different from any silkscreening I have ever done. I remember cutting out stencils and such, but this time, my sister introduced me to the mysteries of using a LOVE DAY | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS In some circles, St. Valentine got celebrated yesterday. At our house, it was "love day", complete with super sweet cupcakes and some home made cards and jewelry. The big people all got hearts cut out of felted wool and sewn on a safety pin. Our littlest sweetie was deemedtoo small for
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HIGH HEELS AND THE NORTH FACE They are calling for up to three feet of snow in the next couple of days and all my serious winter gear is in another country. Those thoughts were getting me down this morning until it occurred to me that I have yards of stretchy waterproof fabric and a sewing machine,which led me to
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A poem for my friend Jess. Snow soaked clouds flow over a rocky basin like cold honey from an overfilled mason jar, wave whipped willows luff in a spring swollen lake, driftwood stump a pirate ship for monkeys, ponderosas defying one last snowfall dress in spring’sfreshest
ABOUT | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS Welcome here! I am an educator and a mother who loves being creative and learning how to do new things. This blog is a record of my exploits; alone, at work, and with my kids. I love the sharing of ideas that goes on online, and this blog is my little contribution.THE LAZY GARDENER
Sometimes life gets busy and things like dates for seed starts pass you by. This spring was one of those years but gardening with my kids is a priority for me so we chose some things like sugar snap peas that are tasty, quick to grow to maturity, easy to grow, and very forgivingof
ROCK, PAPER, FLOWERS It has been a while, but we've been in transit, and blogging without a computer is tough! Grandma was deadheading pansies today, and we were inspired to make some stationery. Materials required: smooth rocks, flowers, and some nice paper. All you have to do is smash the petals with the rock on the paper. TheBRAIDS AND BREAD
Autumn has rolled around yet again, bringing with it school, crisp nights, beautiful colours, and cool days that inspire baking! One of our recent forays into the world of baking is the making of challah. We used Peter Reinhart's recipe. I am a fan of Peter and challah; theVINTAGE APPLES
There was a time when there were an astounding number of apple cultivars. Now, as with most modern agriculture, we have whittled that down to a dozen or fewer that are commercially grown. Luckily for all of us, there are some holdouts, like Vintage Virginia Apples, which has over 200 different kinds of apples growing LOVE DAY | THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS In some circles, St. Valentine got celebrated yesterday. At our house, it was "love day", complete with super sweet cupcakes and some home made cards and jewelry. The big people all got hearts cut out of felted wool and sewn on a safety pin. Our littlest sweetie was deemedtoo small for
BIRTHDAY ON A BUDGET Pinata. There are different ways to make a pinata, the most traditional involving a clay pot. I used a balloon as my paper mache base because the only place I have ever seen the special pots for sale was in Mexico. Paper mache couldn't be easier, and if you have a reasonable tolerance for mess,WINTER HAS COME
The calendar tells us that winter is will not be here for another month and a half, but we have been preparing for it for some weeks now, here in the village, and this week, the snow began to fall. Two weeks ago, we discussed the new season, and the children wove a newmat
CHICKEN TRACTOR PLAN There's something about a lot of grass that always makes me feel like there should be something productive eating it. The owners of the house we're in encouraged us to build a chicken tractor so we did. I started off taking many copious photos for anyone who wants to build their own to look at,LAPTOP SLEEVE
So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shoutout
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.CRUNCHY AND CREAMY
Well, I am finally back on the DB posting wagon. I actually did the last month's challenge as a birthday cake for my husband, but I was underwhelmed by my results (fatigue, morning sickness genuinely not great cake?) and not motivated to post. This month, however, was delicious, easy, and IKEY LIME PIE
It began as a random craving brought on by an innocent bag of key limes on sale at the co-op. It turned into a three day baking odyssey that culminated in a pie which was, admittedly, tasty, but perhaps not worth that much effort. To start with, I didn't have graham wafers forthe crust,
AUTUMN WREATH
Ever since the leaves began to turn and then fall, we've been collecting them with the senselessly acquisitive mindset of crows. Having accumulated a large paper bag full, we decided to display our loot in a festive manner and a cold rainy day seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it. INANAIMO BARS
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca. It's a sugar filled blast from my past. I'm going to hazard a guess that I am oneSLUG HUNTING
The garden space we inherited here is full of wonderful perennials, beautiful raised beds, and lots of slugs. There are lots of theories about how to prevent slug damage and/ or get rid of the slugs, but we're going to start off the old fashioned way; slug hunting. Turns out that this is a pretty AND THEN IT GOT COLD! Well, not really cold, but cold enough for frost, and so it is time for hats. The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids' balaclava. Joann's was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and gotourselves some
THIRTYDIRTYFINGERS
A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then thefinal bead.
GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visuallydistracting.
MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren't familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems and beads, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed FREE OTTOBRE PATTERN The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids’ balaclava. Joann’s was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and got ourselves some hats! I didn’t put the dragon “ruffle” on either, but we added ears to the little one.CRUNCHY AND CREAMY
Well, I am finally back on the DB posting wagon. I actually did the last month's challenge as a birthday cake for my husband, but I was underwhelmed by my results (fatigue, morning sickness genuinely not great cake?) and not motivated to post. This month, however, was delicious, easy, and IKEY LIME PIE
It began as a random craving brought on by an innocent bag of key limes on sale at the co-op. It turned into a three day baking odyssey that culminated in a pie which was, admittedly, tasty, but perhaps not worth that much effort. To start with, I didn't have graham wafers forthe crust,
AUTUMN WREATH
Ever since the leaves began to turn and then fall, we've been collecting them with the senselessly acquisitive mindset of crows. Having accumulated a large paper bag full, we decided to display our loot in a festive manner and a cold rainy day seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it. INANAIMO BARS
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca. It's a sugar filled blast from my past. I'm going to hazard a guess that I am oneSLUG HUNTING
The garden space we inherited here is full of wonderful perennials, beautiful raised beds, and lots of slugs. There are lots of theories about how to prevent slug damage and/ or get rid of the slugs, but we're going to start off the old fashioned way; slug hunting. Turns out that this is a pretty AND THEN IT GOT COLD! Well, not really cold, but cold enough for frost, and so it is time for hats. The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids' balaclava. Joann's was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and gotourselves some
DIY HOUSEHOLD STUFF
Posts about DIY Household stuff written by thirtydirtyfingers. I don’t know why I wasted any energy over changing the old subtitle, as this isn’t exactly a highly trafficked blog, but there it is.THE LAZY GARDENER
Sometimes life gets busy and things like dates for seed starts pass you by. This spring was one of those years but gardening with my kids is a priority for me so we chose some things like sugar snap peas that are tasty, quick to grow to maturity, easy to grow, and very forgivingof
CARVING PUMPKINS
I'm not sure what I think about the whole Hallowe'en package, but the pumpkin part is great! Here's a little photo essay of our exploits, along with a few tips to make the whole thing as much fun as it is meant to be! After you get your pumpkin home, the first step is to ROCK, PAPER, FLOWERS It has been a while, but we've been in transit, and blogging without a computer is tough! Grandma was deadheading pansies today, and we were inspired to make some stationery. Materials required: smooth rocks, flowers, and some nice paper. All you have to do is smash the petals with the rock on the paper. TheVINTAGE APPLES
There was a time when there were an astounding number of apple cultivars. Now, as with most modern agriculture, we have whittled that down to a dozen or fewer that are commercially grown. Luckily for all of us, there are some holdouts, like Vintage Virginia Apples, which has over 200 different kinds of apples growing AND THEN IT GOT COLD! Well, not really cold, but cold enough for frost, and so it is time for hats. The wonderfully talented folk at Ottobre design have some free patterns on their website. One is for a kids' balaclava. Joann's was having a sale on fleece, so we put two and two together and gotourselves some
DOUBLE APPLE BUNDT CAKE What started out as a simple cake recipe to make for dinner on a cold and rainy day turned into a bit of a cooking odyssey, due to one ingredient. We were following Dorie Greenspan's yummy sounding recipe from her book Baking: From My Home to Yours, and we got to the linethat said:
WINTER HAS COME
The calendar tells us that winter is will not be here for another month and a half, but we have been preparing for it for some weeks now, here in the village, and this week, the snow began to fall. Two weeks ago, we discussed the new season, and the children wove a newmat
CHICKEN TRACTOR PLAN There's something about a lot of grass that always makes me feel like there should be something productive eating it. The owners of the house we're in encouraged us to build a chicken tractor so we did. I started off taking many copious photos for anyone who wants to build their own to look at,LAPTOP SLEEVE
So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shoutout
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May 21, 2014 by thirtydirtyfingers So those interwebs are a mixed blessing, but they are certainly a boon to anyone who makes anything by hand because there are a lot of really talented generous folk out there who make cool stuff and then post tutorials. This post is a general homage to them by way of a big shout out thank you to Amy of amyalamode.com who graciously posted a very detailed and also flexible tutorial (http://www.amyalamode.com/blog/2010/04/04/laptop-sleeve-tutorial/) on how to make laptop sleeves. The outer layer of mine is a patchwork of cotton print scraps, the padding is from a felted old wool sweater, and the inner lining is some PUL that I had left over from making diapers. Kam snaps are from the same diaper making era. The PUL (polyurethane laminate on polyester knit) is waterproof, which doesn’t make the bag waterproof, but does give the computer a fighting chance againstaccidental spills.
The back is roughly the same. And a view of the inside and the snaps. It is exactly what I needed. Thanks again, Amy!Advertisements
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ROCK WALL TREASURES
November 13, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers The sun was out in force today, and the accumulated snow on the old rock wall at the top of the village was no match for it. We took a walk up and did some careful looking and touching. Scaly lichens and chenille mosses.Tiny ferns.
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Even a tiny wasp nest in a crevice. The more we looked, the more we found. We found one small chunk that had been knocked loose so we brought it back with us to start a moss garden. We also brought some soil from the road and a big flat rock, as we observed that that was how the rest of it seemed to be growing. All in all, a wonderful sunny expedition. Posted in Activities for Preschoolers,
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WINTER HAS COME
November 8, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers The calendar tells us that winter is will not be here for another month and a half, but we have been preparing for it for some weeks now, here in the village, and this week, the snow began to fall. Two weeks ago, we discussed the new season, and the children wove a new mat for their nature table, where they place treasures that they find outside. We went to the discarded clothing bins and the children chose items that reminded them of winter things like ice, snow, dead grass, and branches without leaves. Then we cut and tore long strips and the children took turns helping to weave them onto the warp. Old t-shirts, leftover yarn, and scraps of fabric, welcome to your new life as a beautiful weaving! Posted in Activities for Preschoolers,
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MONTESSORIUM
October 25, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers I am fairly certain that new technologies are anathema to many purist Montessori types. I am also pretty sure that Maria herself would probably have been less dogmatic about the whole thing. I have been using what I believe to be a great new tool and I wanted to share how I have incorporated this technology into my presentation sequence. I do not believe that this app replaces the tools I already have. I do believe that it is an engaging way for a child to practice and reinforce what they have already learned. I think that is fits nicely into a modern Montessori classroom because it fits the followingcriteria.
1) It is self correcting i.e. the child must get the letters correct or the program will not allow them to go on, although after three incorrect attempts at a letter, the app will help. 2) As closely as is possible in a virtual format, the app follows Montessori principles, such as the three period lesson, clean and attractive aesthetic presentation, no external rewards; just the satisfaction of getting the correct answer. 3) The designer has taken care to match traditional Montessori colours and fonts and so the look of the app is immediately familiar to a child who has already worked with the concrete manipulatives. The child I have been working with on this most recent presentation is four years old. She knows her letters, and has been working with sound pouches, a moveable alphabet, and has started practicing printing words that she has spelled with the moveable alphabet (we use felt letters). This week’s words were chosen by picking one word that seemed ” Hallowe’eny” and then brainstorming with friends to think of all the words that rhymed and seemed thematically linked. We then cut out felt shapes to represent each word, and she spelled them with her moveable alphabet, sounding out the individual letters as shewent.
From this practice, we moved on to the app on the iPad. I like using this device because the screen is big enough that the letters are big. I also believe that the direct cause and effect feel of a touch screen is much more developmentally appropriate for a preschool age child than a mouse. Also, in keeping with the idea that children should work in whatever position is physically comfortable for them, the children can work with an iPad at a table, in a chair, or lying on the floor. The company, Montessorium, has a number of apps which all look good. The one we are using in this sequence is the alphawriter which you cancheck out here:
http://montessorium.com/blog/alphawriter It has four parts. In the first, called simply “phonetics”, the child is presented with a screen which has a picture of an object, a moveable alphabet across the top, and grey rectangles below the picture; one for each letter in the word. The app clearly says the name of the object once, then repeats it slowly by sounding out each constituent letter. If the child touches the image, the name is repeated. If the child moves a letter, the app makes the sound of the letter. If the grey rectangles are touched, the app makes the sound of the letter that belongs in that spot. When the child moves all the correct letters into position, they are presented with a new object. I worked with the child, as you would with any new manipulative, showing what all the buttons did, demonstrating, and then watching as she tried it. She loves using it and was doing so proficiently by the second word. Two advantages it has over the real moveable alphabet is that the letters make their correct sound when tapped if the child is uncertain about the sound, and also, it won’t allow her to spell the word incorrectly. Because she had already used both the real letters and the virtual platform successfully with an adult, the child was comfortable practicing spelling alone, and was happily engaged while I worked with a younger child on a different activity. The app also has a kind of word sound “I spy” game, which has proved popular, a phonogram section which some of the older children are working with, and a creative storyboard section that allows the children to make a picture with the objects that they have been naming, and add words to it with a moveable alphabet. Of course, the story that the child probably has in their head is much more complicated than anything they will conceivably write at this stage, and so I think that after the child has finished and saved their story, it is good to have them dictate the longer narrative to the teacher and have that saved along with their work. For example, she chose not to add letters to this storyboard but had an elaborate story to go with the picture, and very much wanted to have her story with her picture so that she could keep it somewhere.Report this ad
“There was a nut tree by an ant drinking late night tea, and under the ant was the moon, waiting for sunlight to come so it could go home. Meanwhile, under the moon and the ant were lots of animals drinking late night tea, just like the ant, and they loved and loved to live there, but they did not like to live under the moon and the ant. They wanted to live on top of the moon and the ant. Meanwhile, fish lived under all the animals, except a goat who lived with the fish. One night the fish could not reach his tea. All the animals could not survive without food and water, so they dug a hole up to the top of the ground and then jumped above the moon and the ant and lived happily ever after. The end.” Thank you, Montessorium, for a great app! Posted in Activities for Preschoolers,
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October 21, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers This week has been all about buttons. It started with the reading of a Frog and Toad story about losing a button. At the end of the story, all the buttons that they find get sewn on a jacket to decorate it, which the kids thought was a great idea. So we went on a button hunt and found lots of great buttons. Then we sorted them. And we practiced counting with them. And then we decided to learn how to sew on a button so we made buttons out of felted sweater cloth and practiced sewing with a yarn needle. Then we decided to share our button fever with the elementary school students so we invited them to have a button tea with us, and we madecookies.
Finally, we searched through our little library and found lots of great stories about buttons. These two and a button rhyme were ourfavorites.
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GOLDEN BEAD SQUARE TUTORIAL October 12, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers I love the golden bead material and the kids are likewise drawn to it. I have seen a lot of people using plastic grids to make the squares, and I may yet resort to this for the big cube but for the squares, I wanted to try doing something with the wires that I was already using so that the construction of the square wouldn’t be visually distracting. The following is my attempt to share what I did. Apologies for the low quality pictures; my camera has gone AWOL and I’m using my ipad camera for everything. To make the 100 bead square you need 100 golden beads, twelve eye pins, and two pieces of thinner wire that are about a third again as long as your eye pins. Start by making 80 of the beads into ten bars and set these aside. It will make assembly easier if the ten bars aren’t super tight. A couple millimeters of play is ideal. Next, take three eye pins, and ten beads. Take one eye pin and slide one bead onto it. Then, thread a second eye pin onto the first. Follow with eight more beads on the original eye pin, then add the third eye pin to the first and then the final bead. You should have something that looks like this. Cut the end of the first eye pin about a bead length away from the last bead and use pliers to roll the end around so that it makes another eye. Try to leave a little play in the beads, maybe a couple of millimeters, so that you have space to do the next step. Cut two lengths of wire that are about a thirds again as long as the eye pins. Ideally they would be the same colour as the eye pins, but I had silver on hand so I used it. Take one thin wire and wrap it tightly around the original wire at the same place that the second eye pin intersects it. I wrapped it about three times and then tucked the little poky end in with the pliers. Bend the thin wire up and to the left slightly and repeat with the other thin wire at the place where the third eye pin joined the original. You should end up with something like this.Report this ad
Now grab one of the ten bead bars that you already made and lay it on top of the horizontal eye pins under the thin wire and as close to the first beads as you can manage (which isn’t really the case in the picture below. I think I was trying to show where all the wireswere).
The next step is wrapping the thin wire over the second bead bar and then wrapping it once around the eye pin that it is sitting on. Pull it tight and it will pull the bars close together. The horizontal eye pin should slip between the first and second bead. Repeat this step with the other seven pre assembled bead bars. Using another bead as measurement, cut the horizontal bead bars with about a bead and a half of length past the last bead bar that you have added. You may need to make it shorter.Report this ad
Use your pliers to make an eye loop at the end of each of the horizontal eye pins. Take your final eye pin, thread one bead on it and slide it through the loop you have just made. Then thread eight more beads onto the last eye pin. Slide the end of the eye pin through the second loop and put the final bead on it. Cut the eye pin and make a loop. Wrap the wires around the final eye pin as you did at the beginning, cut the excess, and tuck in the ends. Et voila!Posted in Crafts
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| Leave a Comment » MONTESSORI BEAD MATERIAL October 8, 2013 by thirtydirtyfingers Well I finally took the plunge and decided to make bead material. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Montessori, these beads are important to the math curriculum. I found these great wooden beads at Fire Mountain Gems andbeads
, thanks to Stephanie of ImagineOurLife for the tip. I bought the 6 mm wooden waxed beads and have been threading them onto the gold plated brass eye pins that they sell by the 100 pack. I got one package of each of the short bead stair colours, black, white, light grey, dark grey, and a lot of gold. I bought three packages of eye pins (21 gauge) but I will need to buy another pack to finish the 1000 golden bead cube. They give you two 16 inch strands per package, which works out to about 130 beads. The whole thing, including shipping, cost me about $103. I have enough to make at least: seven complete sets of the short bead stair the short chains for each colour (my son wants photo and bead arranging credit for this one.) bead squares for all colours up to and including 6 three black and white bead stairs three negative grey bead stairsReport this ad
all the golden decimal material (45 ten bead bars, 9 single beads, 9 one hundred bead squares, and 1 thousand bead cube) and a bunch of random extra beads of various colours. So not everything that exists in Montessori bead world but a pretty decent start. I like that they are wooden, and the paint is non toxic. They are waxed, and so they are shiny once you start handling them. They are not all exactly the same size, but I like the slight variation. If you are adamant that the square be a real square, though, these are notthe beads for you.
The eye pins made my life much easier. They are stiff enough to hold the bars straight. I used the 3 inch ones and saved the pieces I cut off to make the shorter bars and to make jump rings for the chains. I also used them to stabilize the squares and the cubes. I know that a lot of people have had good success using plastic grids for that, but I don’t love how they look. I will do another tutorial post of how to make the 100 squares without the grids. We aren’t completely done yet, but my seven year old has been really helpful with making the eye loops with jewelry pliers on the bead bars once they are done, and the little ones have been having a good time counting the beads onto the eye pins for me. I was sort of dreading this project but it is actually going quite quickly.Posted in Crafts
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