Bathing my Pyrenees and Several other Steps to Insanity
It always starts innocently enough. Eli was slowly pouring milk into his bowl (the red plastic one, per his request) to cool his tomato...
Rage and Third Grade Monkey Bars
"These are Third Grade monkey bars." Quinn had climbed the three-step ladder and stretched her arms to demonstrate the bars were just...
Kindergarten Eve
These days, the Pink Door House is brimming with All The Questions... Mommy, what do porcupines eat? How many stomachs do cows have? Then...
Forget Cancer
Four days to Forget Cancer. A year ago, I wrote those words in this post about a long weekend spent at Priest Lake. It's still true. It's...
Hatching Bug Eggs
We did it! Three weeks of bug centered activities. If you recall, we started here...a bug nightmare resulting in a (pretty ambitious)...
Baby Bumblebee Song and Movement
Some ideas are so good, you have to copy them just the way they are. This is one of those ideas. Squishy, smooshy baby bumblebees made...
Is it a Bug? Practicing Simple Sorting Skills
This simple sorting activity was a low-maintenance addition to "Bug Camp"...our week(ish) of bug-focused learning and play. I combined...
Bug Finders and Mountain Climbers
The day before we drove to Spokane, I sat down with the girls to make our "Bug Finder Binoculars". Jason cut to size a leftover gift wrap...
Play Dough Bugs
This activity kicked off our unofficial Pink Door House Summer Bug Camp. Hopefully after a few weeks of projects, songs, and games about...
Bug Camp
Ah, summer....Flats of raspberries and boxes of fuzzy, juicy peaches from the Farmers' Market. Backyard water parks constructed of wading...
