Jess Erskine just posted a delightful “Crunchy Bunny” Halloween story. Here’s the first half of it. You can read the rest of this 18 page comic on Facebook or at CrunchyBunny.com!
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In the tradition of Mad-Libs, here’s a great site that will give you hours and hours of family fun.
In this classic phrasal template word game, one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the often comical or nonsensical story aloud. There are over 2000 user-created children’s stories on Word Blanks, including favorite nursery rhymes, children’s stories, theme songs and original stories.
Most of these are perfectly fine for all ages, but a very few can get a little “kid gross”, so you may wish to preview the stories before playing them.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
If you have a stash of LEGOs in your home, here’s a terrific little project that kids of all ages will be absolutely fascinated by, courtesy of Frugal Fun for Boys & Girls:
Grab the LEGO® bucket, because this is such a fun building project! Make an endless cube, also called an infinity cube, out of LEGO® bricks. This cube transforms shape over and over without an end. It’s such a neat toy to build, and it’s fun to play with!
CLICK HERE to go to the instructions, parts list and video!
TheHappyHousewife.com has a great collection of almost 100 hands-on projects, crafts and experiments especially for homeschoolers, on all sorts of interesting topics, including:
Turkey Feather Science
Testing for Starch
Milk Fireworks
The Physics of the Trapeze
Fun Ways to Improve Writing Skills
Buoyancy Experiments
…and dozens more.
CLICK HERE Take a look and browse through the collection yourself!
Another of Jess Erskine’s cartoons from CrunchyBunny.com
From Jess Erskine’s new cartoon blog! We’ll be sharing a few of these here, but go to CrunchyBunny.com for them all!
“A touch of cold in the Autumn night –
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.”
-T. E. Hulme, 1908
From the HowDoesShe? blog comes these way fun printables that do wonders to promote some fun family discussion around the table: “Here are questions that encourage family talk! We believe in families and we know the power of getting to know each other better. So what we’ve created for you are 30 questions that you put in a jar. It doesn’t need to be a fancy jar. Each night at dinner time pull out one question and read it to the family. Some are silly and some are serious. Get to know each other better and smile as you create memories with your loved ones!”
These are delightful, and great fun! We had a similar “store bought” thing like this that we used for years around our table and it never failed to provoke some interesting discussions — even if it was just to laugh at the sometimes crazy questions. Print out these PDF masters, cut ’em up and put ’em in a nice jar on your table and you are guaranteed to have some memorable supper discussion times with your kids over the months to come. There are FIVE sets of 30 questions on this blog, so there are 150+ in all. Just follow the links to all five sets. Collect ’em all.
CLICK HERE to go to the website. Links to all five sets of printable questions are on this page.
Children’s book author Lou Treleaven has a unique crafts site that offers dozens of downloadable, printable “cootie catcher” paper toys of all sorts. It really stretches the boundaries of this traditional children’s paper toy.
There are fairy tale cootie catchers, treasure hunt cootie catchers and lots more. But what we especially like are the examples of educational cootie catchers that review different subjects, such as Spanish, geometry, art terms, forms of water, vocabulary terms and more. What a novel way to review basic facts or lessons!
If you’ve never shown your kids how to make and play with a cootie catcher, you definitely need to print out and make a few of these. There is also a template that you can use to create your own cootie catcher just for fun, or even to use for reviewing your own lessons, should you be so inclined. 🙂
CLICK HERE to go to the website!
