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DIY Natural Plant-Based Dyes
One of our very favorite weeks with The Playful Pioneers curriculum (based on the Little House series!) is when we create our own plant based dyes! The timing this year was perfect as we had a garden full of veggies to try out. I decided to put together a little picture-based “how to” and I hope you get a chance to give this a try. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and our wheels are turning as we decide what else we could use to dye cloth. I ordered these cotton…
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Making Chia Seed Jam with Kids
One of the highlights of Summer for us is berry picking. Whether it’s blueberries and strawberries from our garden, wild strawberries from our yard or blackberries and raspberries that we find along our local nature trail…we love them all. In previous years, we would make a few jars of jam but with the high amount of sugar involved, we ended up abandoning that habit. This year, when we were picking our rhubarb in the garden, our youngest asked if it was possible to make jam with rhubarb. After a few…
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Our visit to the Anne of Green Gables Museum ( & Matthew’s Carriage Rides)
We arrived at the 110-acre grounds holding the Anne of Green Gables Museum on a foggy summer morning. The museum itself is actually the original home built by John and Annie Campbell, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s aunt and uncle, and a home she described as “the wonder castle of my childhood”. Built in 1872 and maintained to this day, it stands on a small hill eagerly inviting all to enter and explore its contents. It was in this home that L.M. Montgomery felt most inspired and wrote several of her world…
