Crayons are a household staple, whether you have kiddos or not. Pretty much every American I know, grew up coloring with crayons as some point in their lives. I grew up with a plethora of art supplies, including the big box of Crayola crayons. You know what I am talking about…Macaroni & Cheese, Cerulean blue, […]
Category Archives: Hippy Homeschool
Gettin’ Sticky With It - 5 Homemade Glue & Paste Recipes (Gluten-Free & Vegan recipes included) - Natural Hippy Homeschool Series
Glue is the fiber that binds our crafts together. It holds the paper together in our collages, and binds our pages together in our homemade books. Glue is what holds the googly eyes onto the fearsome monsters and feathers onto our beautiful birds. Glue is one of the most important ingredients to any homeschool classroom, […]
DIY Natural Herbal Ink & Feather Pen - Natural Hippy Homeschool Series
I am not sure why, but somehow I always thought that ink-making was a thing of the past. I grew up with pens that just worked automatically and never really knew where or how ink was made. I am not even sure that I cared about ink and it’s history, until I took it upon […]
Homemade Clay & Beeswax Holiday Ornaments
One of my favorite holiday traditions that my mom and I would do together every year, was to make handmade and hand painted ornaments. Every year we would go to the local craft stores and get all of our supplies, then we would make an afternoon of it together, molding and shaping, painting, and glittering our […]
DIY All-Natural Kid’s Paint That Is Even Better Than My Last Recipe
I really do love to paint. My mother was an aspiring artist in her off time (along with being a writer…where’s her blog? I  think she should totally follow my lead and start her own blog!) and she always did fantastically fun craft projects with us, when we were kids. I am a right brained […]
Homemade Holiday Scented Play Dough For The Little Ones In Your Life
I love playing with play dough. I have always been one of those artsy types of people; as a child, anything that my mom would suggest, that had to do with crafting, I was on board. There is a lot of talk though, about sensory play and how it can enhance the learning experience for […]
Make Your Own Non-Toxic Oven Clay
When Silas was about 4 or 5 months old, his first Father’s Day rolled around and I wanted to do something special for Andy. (This was spring of 2010) After a lot of contemplation on what I could do that would be an awesome keepsake forever, I thought about all of the times that my […]
Make Your Own Watercolor Paints That Are NON-TOXIC
I had intended for this post to come out last Sunday, but these paints took MUCH longer than I had anticipated to dry. I was so excited to try these out, I kept checking every day to see if they were done. Silas saw them drying on the counter top and was just about as […]
EASILY Make Your Own Non-Toxic Finger Paints At Home
After buying a whole array of finger paints from Hobby Lobby, for Silas, and setting them all up, I realized there was this stench coming from them. It was a terrible chemical smell! The bottles say non-toxic but they most certainly don’t smell like they’re non-toxic. This situation made me to realize that I could […]