Read Across America, Bear Puppets To briefly recap our Read Across America fun, first we made the Erin Puppet and Shalock the Lion, to go along with the book, Shalock and the Cloud of Bad Dreams. Then we celebrated a classic with Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. The final installment of […] Read more…
Crochet Patterns
Unicorn Headband, FREE Crochet Pattern
Unicorn Headband Last month we celebrated our youngest child’s 5th birthday. The 5th birthday has always been such a big year for our kids! However, Charlotte’s birthday is almost always disrupted by basketball or illness. This year has been especially crazy, with what is happening right now, with the coronavirus. Her party was cancelled for […] Read more…
Wolf Puppet, Read Across America CAL, Part 4
Read Across America CAL, Part 4 In Part 3 of our Read Across America Crochet-a-Long, I shared my Little Red Riding Hood Puppet pattern. I talked a bit about the history of the fairy tale that has been passed down generation to generation for centuries. So I will not bore you by retelling it all […] Read more…
Red Riding Hood Puppet, Read Across America CAL, Part 3
Read Across America CAL, Part 3 Last week, we kicked of National Read Across America month with Shalock and the Cloud of Bad Dreams, by C.F. Lawrenson. It was so fun to share that story with you, and the details about how it came to be! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, […] Read more…
Shalock the Lion Puppet, Read Across America CAL Part 2
Shalock the Lion Hearted Today, we continue in our Read Across America celebration with Shalock the Lion Puppet, from Shalock and the Cloud of Bad dreams. You can use this puppet for any lion you wish to make! I tried to make him in the likeness of this Shalock, from this book, for a very […] Read more…
Erin Puppet, Read Across America CAL Part 1
Happy March!! March is National Read Across America Month, in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, which is was March 2nd. It began in 1997, though I don’t recall participating at the school I attended until about 1998 or 1999, when I was a high school student athlete. They requested that some of the high school […] Read more…