Stenciled T-Shirts

My girls love doing t-shirt crafts, so when I see a cute, easy idea, we give it a try! These stenciled t-shirts were really easy.  The girls and I searched for printable templates online to use–that was probably the hardest part of the whole project!  It was tricky to find designs that were simple enough [...]

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2012 Pinewood Derby Cars

There is an easy way of doing things, and there is a difficult way of doing things.  And then there is the Prairie Family way of doing things:  the hardest way possible!  This is a general principle in our house, and nothing proves it to be more true than when we make our annual set [...]

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Cupcake Hats

My girls LOVE–and I do mean LOVE–cute hats.  In fact, the cuter and/or sillier they are, the more they like them!  Several months ago, we saw a picture of a cupcake hat, and, of course, Cosette and Kara seriously wanted to add them to their collection.  I looked online for patterns and found several different [...]

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A Beka Academy 5th Grade Mammal Poster

One of the first projects for A Beka Academy 5th Grade is the mammal science poster.  Brock did his on guinea pigs, and John did his on bob cats.  Cosette wanted to do hers on dogs, but I told her that “dogs” is too broad of a topic and encouraged her to pick a particular [...]

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2011 Summer Youth Program Classes

Wow, our June was FULL!  It just went by so fast–I can’t believe that it is already July 1!  In only a little over a month, it will be time to go back to school.  Seems kind of crazy!  Anyway, I am several posts behind on all that the Prairie Family has been doing, but [...]

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2011 Cub Scout (and AHG!) Day Camp

    Yesterday was an exhausting, but fun Day Camp for our local Cub Scouts.  Since Dan and I were helping with the camp, our AHG Trailblazers were also able to attend the camp, and they had a wonderful time. We are thankful for the organizers who allowed the girls to be full participants in [...]

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Summer Plans

Although the weather has been exceptionally cool lately and it doesn’t seem true, we only have about 1 1/2 more days of school left before summer vacation.  Kara and Luke will actually be finished tomorrow. Cosette, Brock, and John will have a few exams that carry over into Friday. It doesn’t seem possible that it [...]

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Rev It Up! VBS Crafts

In a few weeks, our church is going to be having our regular summer Vacation Bible School.  This year we are using the Rev it Up curriculum from Regular Baptist Press, and I think it’s going to be a good VBS!  We invited a young, enthusiastic missionary to work with the kids this summer, and [...]

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Clay Pots and Swords

Luke’s Bear Scout group is blessed to have an art teacher as one of their leaders.  She’s a sweet lady too!  This teacher has to be one of the most creative people I have ever met, and she loves sharing her creativity with kids.  As an end-of-the-year activity, she wanted to do some clay pottery [...]

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Loom Knitting Projects Finished!

The girls have finished making their hats using loom knitting.  They were making this as part of the American Heritage Girls Textile Arts merit badge.  This really is a good project for girls–very easy to have success!  There are many things that can be made using the looms, and both of the girls are already [...]

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