Comments on: interview: amanda soule

By: fine motor skills in babies

fine motor skills in babies — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:08:52 +0000

fine motor skills in babies…

You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!…

By: Teresa in NC

Teresa in NC — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:16:40 +0000

I think one of the best things we have done to inspire creativity is to not buy many things that have batteries. Lots of open ended toys and plenty of paper, pencils, crayons, and other mediums to let the kids explore!

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:22:33 +0000

We have a huge liquid amber tree in our yard and it has taught my children (and myself) so much about the seasons with its everchanging wardrobe. From the beautiful autum colours to the dropping of its leaves to the spring chartreuse buds that intoxicate the bees that make the whole tree buzz with spring life, to the explosion of the new leaves, we never cease to wonder at its delights and the awareness of the flora and fauna that surrounds us - Amanda has embraced these wonders in her blog and I look forward to seeing what is happening in their world on the other side of this most beautiful planet we all abide on.
xx

By: Karisma

Karisma — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:35:13 +0000

Creativity in our household is vast! Or three girls have been painting, drawing, sculpting from the time they were babies. Now they are teens they are also enjoying the finer crafts of sewing and embroidery! We have been lucky enough to homeschool our younger two, both boys, they have the freedom to explore their own creativity on a daily basis! With such an artistic bunch we by no means manage to keep our house in a state of calm or clean! Paint and string, glue and mud alike all traipse through on a daily basis! The baby of the family at 9 just loves to create with dirt, leaves, sticks and even build habitats for insects!

By: Robyn Piotrowski

Robyn Piotrowski — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:35:53 +0000

My 6 year old asks every day if we can make a project. So we keep all the supplies out and easily available. fFr his birthday we took his drawing of a nice pirate captain and on the inside of the card he wrote on a treasure map “Aaaargh, You are a Treasure Matey.APretty much all pary decor will we made my artist clan. Fun!

By: Inês

Inês — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:08:54 +0000

Hy,

I,m from Portugal and the mother of two wonderful boys. Since we live just the 3 of us, we call ourselfs the three mosqueters, and do pretty much everything together.
Right now we are working on a project which consists of “re arranging” a book about mothers. We are personalizing it and it will be the Mother’s day present for my mother, their grandmother. We hoppe she will have as much fun readind and exploring it’s surprises, as we are creating it.

Regards from Portugal,
Inês

By: sue brown

sue brown — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:02:29 +0000

We try to do something creative with the kids everyday. Sometimes it can be so hard to get motivated and I know this book would definately help me out. We love to get messy and let the kids creativity and imagination shine through. I’m not sure if I have made the time cut off as I’m in Australia but I really hope I have.
xxxxSue

By: suzy

suzy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:19:44 +0000

I’ve been reading Amanda’s blog for over 3 years now - since before Adelaide was born! My own little one is not a year old yet, so we haven’t branched out into crafty activities, but we do lots of singing together, looking at seasonal picture books and playing with found objects. I’m looking forward to beginning more creative and imaginative play activities as he gets older.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:28:37 +0000

children are naturally inclined to creat things….all day long, my kids are pick, and ing up rocks, leafs, sticks, tape, paper, pens, all sorts of things, and inspect them, turn them over and begin making things out of them.

Their favorite place is their craft/art table and they never cease to amaze me with the things they come up with - the secret seems to be to let them run with it.

I am very excited about this new book and can’t wait to read it. Amanda’s parenting style and the way she integrates crafts and art into daily life’s events really speaks to me.

Thnank you for introducing her book here as well!!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:47:56 +0000

We had just enough snow melt to uncover our picnic table and a small bit of dry ground so we had an Earth Day Tea - face paint party today outside. We made face paint from adding food color to white clown paint and then made textured face paint or more like putty by adding face cream, cornstarch and water with some food color. All the 4 - 8 year olds in our neighborhood were painting all over their faces, arms and legs and dancing around on the melting snow on this sunny 40 degree day. Provide a small amount of supplies and just sit back to see what a couple of kids will come up with! Oh Creativity is so natural to them.

Does 9:50 pm in Alaska still count as Tuesday where you are ? How do time zones work in blog land?