by Julie | Oct 6, 2009
The biggest failure from the Summer Jar was making a cardboard stool from Foldschool.com. Or, I guess it depends on how you look at it. The final result was a failure, but the process had some good points. This ended up being a project that didn’t have much to...
by Julie | Jul 30, 2009
Another summer jar activity: make multicolored crayon blocks out of runty crayon remnants. I saw it in Scholastic magazine. You all should do this today; it took no time at all and the kids thought it was magic. First take all your little stupid crayon bits, and put...
by Julie | Jul 17, 2009
We’re still mourning the sale of our 1980 VW Vanagon Westfalia (almost a year ago). It was a sad day but it only had four seat belts, and the thought of, I don’t know, saving it for 20 years for some other use, or bolting Zuzu’s seat to the floor,...
by Julie | Jul 14, 2009
Last week the Summer Jar told us to make cards and mail them. I had some premade blank cards from the days when I fancied myself a cardmaker, so we drew on those. The most fun part was deciding who to send our cards to (excuse me: to whom we should send our cards)....
