Back to School!

August 10, 2022

Happy Back to School!

"Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls."

Matthew 11:29

Easy No-Cook Play Dough

This recipe came from Australia's Best Recipes.

Ingredients:

2 cups plain flour

1 cup salt

1 tbs oil

1 cup cold water

food coloring

Directions:

1) Combine flour and salt.

2) Add water and oil.

3) Knead well.

4) Cut into four parts.

5) Place one dough portion on counter.

6) Make a small well in the middle.

7) Add a couple of drops of food coloring.

8) Knead until color is mixed throughout.

9) Repeat with other three parts.

Come Hear Me Speak!

I'll be outside of Atlanta at Jodeco Road United Methodist Church on September 17, 2022.

Souvenir Shadow Box

I love souvenir buttons, but mine were getting damaged on my backpack. So, I decided to put them in a shadow box with this anonymous quote:

It doesn't matter where you are going. It's who you have beside you.

Materials:

souvenir pins

shadow box

stencils

quote

thumb tacks

colored paper

hot glue

optional: acrylic paint

Instructions:

1) Remove foam padding from box and attach pins. (I needed to add a dab of hot glue to the back of my heavy metal pins)

2) Download quote here.

3) Print on card stock.

4) Color with markers.

5) Turn quote over and trace oval on back side.

6) Cut out oval.

7) Trace a slightly larger oval on matching colored paper.

8) Cut out.

9) Glue both ovals together.

10) Pin quote to foam backing with thumb tacks.

11) Reassemble box.

12) Optional: Paint compasses and flowers on corners.

13) Display and enjoy all the travel memories.

What I'm Reading

I adore Langston Hughes. I'm using these books with homeschool this month. Subscribe to my blog six5mom.com and keep an eye out for enrichment activities based on the Harlem Renaissance.

Poem of the Month

Where Do All the Teachers Go? by Peter Dixon

Where do all the teachers go

When it’s four o’clock?

Do they live in houses

And do they wash their socks?

Do they wear pyjamas

And do they watch TV?

And do they pick their noses

The same as you and me?

Do they live with other people?

Have they mum and dads?

And were they ever children?

And were they ever bad?

Did they ever, never spell right?

Did they ever make mistakes?

Were they punished in the corner

If they stole the chocolate flakes?

Did they ever lose their hymn books?

Did they ever leave their greens?

Did they scribble on the desk tops?

Did they wear old dirty jeans?

I’ll follow one back home today

I’ll find out what they do

Then I’ll put it in a poem

That they can read to you

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