crayon resist easter eggs

 

Today we dyed Easter eggs using Glob's Natural Easter Egg Coloring Kit.  The kit comes with 3 colors (yellow, purple and blue), 3 compostable mixing cups and 3 small bamboo brushes.  The dyes are made from herbs and plants, in this case, annatto, radish and cabbage.  The dyes can be mixed to make other colors as well.  We drew with a white crayon on the eggs before dyeing them, a technique called crayon resist (which happened to be one of the suggestions in the kit).  Another example of crayon resist can be found here.  Many thanks to Glob for sending us an Easter Egg kit to try out!

valentines for all ages

Our Valentines this year are simple: little treats in glassine bags sealed with red hearts and a Valentine's message on the back.  The bags are from the former online store Nice Package, the heart stickers are from Shop Sweet Lulu and the round labels are from Paper Source, in their peacock color.  I typed our Valentine's messages using Paper Source's free template and ran the labels through our printer.  We gave away three different treats: Little Flower Candy Company sea salt caramels for our friends, assorted stickers for Avery's friends (mostly preschool-aged) and Whole Foods animal cookies for Nate's friends (mostly toddler-aged).  What's great is that you can put anything small and cute in these glassine bags, like these little Japanese erasers.  Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

stars and planets

I came downstairs one afternoon to find Avery and her dad working on this one: gluing glow in the dark stars and adhering dot stickers (which later looked a lot like planets to me) to black paper.  Later, Avery made some scribbles with a white crayon.  We used this picture to talk about seeing stars in the dark sky at night.