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Amazing Mazes Download 16 Jul 2013 | 09:28 am
Kids bored over the school holidays? Try these: Magic Plesiosaur Maze Click on maze for high quality image size. Helicoprion Maze Click on maze for high quality image size. Primitive Shark Maze C...
Nonnie's Gourmet Butternut Pumpkin Soup 7 Jun 2013 | 09:48 am
After a frenetic summer, although my use of my energy in gardening is not very efficient yet - I have managed to store away a few huge beautiful butternut pumpkins grown from seed in my garden for use...
DAS clay 19 May 2013 | 09:43 am
My plesiosaur Various creations Troy Dale (7) Savannah Dale (18) Even little kids can paint a shape from a mold (this is from a dragonfly cookie mould that Luke (5) pushed the clay into himself, a...
Sun Mother Wakes the World - an Australian Creation story. (Children's picture book.) 28 Apr 2013 | 05:36 pm
ADAPTED BY Diane Wolkstein PICTURES BY Bronwyn Bancroft Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Synopsis The Sun Mother is awakened and comes down to the Earth. The earth is still...
My tomato learning this year 19 Apr 2013 | 11:27 am
January Starting out fresh this year - lots of hay and baby tomato plants of a variety of jam tomatoes. The dream is to grow enough to make my own pasta sauce - enough for my family's needs one day...
Bouncing Bird Cat Toy 19 Apr 2013 | 11:18 am
When I saw this kids craft activity, I knew my daughter Troy would love it. You weave wool around and around elastics tied around a bouncy ball. (We used cloth covered elastic similar to thin hair ...
Climate Change cartoon by Joel Pett 11 Apr 2013 | 04:22 am
This Joel Pett cartoon for USA Today appeared just before the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009. I first saw it in 2013 passed around on Facebook - and I thought it was brilliant! It voic...
Night Watering 14 Mar 2013 | 04:10 pm
There are few things I find more fun than throwing buckets of water on thirsty plants in the middle of the night. Yes, my neighbours surely think I'm weird (but I think that's a given anyways). Here...
The Last Leaf (story by O. Henry) 11 Mar 2013 | 03:01 pm
Painting by Gladys Folkers When I was young, I saw a short film of O. Henry's story, The Last Leaf. The film wouldn't have won an Academy Award, but to a child, the obvious characters so roughly dra...
Nanook of the North (first documentary) 11 Mar 2013 | 02:04 pm
If anything would make me respect people and humankind, it would be this - not our ridiculous tall buildings.