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  • Yellow Autumn Leaves
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    Autumn Leaves: Wordless Wednesday

    Image Credits Orange Autumn Leaves © 2012 Heather Johnson Red Autumn Leaves on a Small Maple Tree © 2012 Heather Johnson Falling Red Autumn Leaves from a Maple Tree © 2012 Heather Johnson Bright Red Autumn Leaves © 2013 Heather Johnson Yellow Autumn Leaves © 2013 Heather Johnson Red Autumn Burning Bush Leaves © 2013 […] More

  • Handprint Pumpkin Fall Salt Dough Ornaments
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    Handprint Pumpkin Fall Salt Dough Ornaments

    Halloween is just days away. Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A few weeks ago, my daughter and I got busy making a pumpkin-themed craft to celebrate the autumn season. For our first Mother’s Day together, my daughter and I made purple salt dough ornaments that I now have hung in the hallway leading to […] More

  • Trick or Treat Halloween Footprint Craft
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    Trick or Treat Halloween Footprint Craft

    My daughter and I love making handprint and footprint crafts together. Whenever she sees me put the little bottles of paint out on the counter, she gets super excited about making a new craft. For Halloween this year, she and I have already made a spider and black cat handprint craft and an owl handprint-footprint […] More

  • Halloween Owl Handprint-Footprint Craft
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    Halloween Owl Handprint-Footprint Craft

    Making handprint and footprint crafts for each holiday is a great activity to share with young children. My daughter and I are having a blast making print paint pictures in celebration of Halloween. Last week I shared the spider and black cat handprint craft that she and I made together. For a second Halloween handprint […] More

  • Halloween Spider and Black Cat Handprint Craft
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    Halloween Spider and Black Cat Handprint Craft

    My daughter and I love making handprints together for the holidays throughout the year. For Halloween this year, she and I made an adorable spider and black cat handprint craft. My daughter loves watching me rub the paint on her hand and then pressing her handprint onto the paper. (She also loves washing the paint […] More

  • 'Ollie's Halloween' Book Review
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    ‘Ollie’s Halloween’ Book Review

    During our toddler summer reading program a few months ago, my daughter and I discovered the charming Gossie & Friends book series. Because my daughter loves ducks, she immediately took to the series. Yes, Gossie and her friends are goslings, not ducks, but my daughter uses the word duck for all birds similar to ducks […] More

  • 'Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin' Book Review
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    ‘Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin’ Book Review

    If you wanted to find a pumpkin, where would you look? In a log? In a leaf pile? In an apple tree? No! In a pumpkin patch! When Duck and Goose see Thistle with a pumpkin, the lovable characters want a pumpkin too. After discovering the Duck & Goose books last summer, my daughter and […] More

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