June 5, 2009
For Rio’s fifth birthday I made her a gift: a fabric pencil case that rolls up. It has little pockets for scissors and a ruler and a glue stick and sharpener, and holds about two dozen colored pencils (and a few regular #2s). I worked very hard on this, getting sewing lessons from a friend [...]
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May 30, 2009
I ran across this page of interesting alphabets the other day. It’s not exactly for kids. One of the alphabets was made by clothespinning flesh into letter shapes. I personally do not want to put that idea in my five-year-old’s head. But a lot of the alphabets are charming, and very kid friendly. There are [...]
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