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adventureinabox

Artist & blogger from Canada. Creating educational games, paper crafts, shadow puppets and other toys. I love my family, books and dark chocolate.

FREE PRINTABLE PAPER DOLLS! We got our paper dolls

FREE PRINTABLE PAPER DOLLS! We got our paper dolls ready for winter - with clothes that are both warm and festive. They are also free. You can get the designs on the blog.
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For young children, I recommend using magnetic tape with paper dolls - and possibly even laminating them. Then they will be easy to use and last a long time!
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Busted out our Christmas books for the advent! Our

Busted out our Christmas books for the advent! Our collection has currently exceeded 25 books, so we’ll have to take our pick... or maybe read a few at a time.
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My favourites include Findus and the Christmas Tomte (from the Norwegian series of books about an old man and his cat, that we always loved), Christmas in Noisy Village (which is really an extract from one of my most favourite children’s books ever, The Children of Noisy Village), and Let It Snow (because it proclaims that handmade gifts are the best).
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What are your favourite books to read with children this time of a year?
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Do you like board games? Print and make Christmas

Do you like board games? Print and make Christmas Guess Who, a game of festive deduction! Now available on the blog. It features twenty characters from winter holiday celebrations around the world, and you can enjoy it as a two-player game, a classroom game, or a party game.⠀
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In an educational context, Christmas Guess Who Game takes something everyone loves – holidays – and uses this theme as a starting point for teaching about geography and cultural diversity. After all, the closer it is to winter vacations, the more challenging it becomes to get any schoolwork done. While playing this game, children can use maps and learn about geography, make comparisons of folklore and traditions from around the world and employ syllogistic logic while playing the game. Yet it’s all about the holidays!⠀
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Not concerned with the educational aspect so much? Try it as a fun Christmas-themed board game at a family gathering! There is a lot of holiday trivia included, and it’s hard not to laugh when you discover such peculiar characters as Krampus, the Austrian gift-bringer with a whip, or the Catalan log Tió de Nadal that is known to poop presents…⠀
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Here is a fun educational activity for Halloween.

Here is a fun educational activity for Halloween. Make a life-size paper skeleton for kids with life-size printable bones!

Skeletons are fascinating! Especially when you are seven or eight… First of all, many kids at that age have some insatiable curiosity about how their bodies work. Second, skeletons in particular are a source of great interest in kids. At least, my son definitely thinks that they’re the most worthwhile of our body systems. They’re kind of spooky, just enough to spike his interest! But at the same time, they’re very real. You see, as far as most of the other organs go, he has to believe they’re there. But he can definitely feel the bones inside his body, which makes studying the skeleton a very personal experience.

Here is my son with his skeleton buddy! If you want to make a skeleton too, search for it on the blog or message me!

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Several of my homeschooling friends mentioned how

Several of my homeschooling friends mentioned how much they like Tuesday Poetry Teatime.

It happened to be Tuesday. The kids baked muffins with their dad and requested candles. The coincidence seemed too much to pass on, so before those muffins disappeared, I got out some of our poetry books.

We didn’t quite get to tea - or juice! - but muffins were good, and poems were even better. This was our family’s favourite for today. It is from the collection Poems to Learn by Heart edited by Caroline Kennedy and illustrated by Jon J. Muth.

The idea of Tuesday Poetry Teatime comes from the #bravewriterlifestyle. It’s supposed to provide a nice break from the fast-paced demands of modern life, with adults and children gathering together once a week to eat desserts and sip delicious drinks, while reading poetry together.

It was an enchanting experience. Maybe next time we can prepare drinks - lemonade or hot chocolate - as well!

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This is what our homeschooling looked like today.

This is what our homeschooling looked like today. Drawing seeds and vegetables... for a space gnome.

My son found a letter that his dad wrote to him a couple of years ago from this imaginary character they both liked at the time. In the letter, there was a story about how the character, who lived on a different planet, grew a big orange plant from a small seed, that was brought to him by the cosmic winds. “He didn’t know it was a pumpkin!” My son lamented. “I wonder if he knew what to do with it afterwards?” He knew that it was a game, but decided that it would be fun to follow up with it two years later. So we spent the afternoon collecting vegetables that were still left in our garden, cutting them and taking seeds out of them. In order for the space gnome to know exactly what to expect from each seed, my son drew the plant progression for him. (I joined because I like nature journaling and never get to do it and it was just more fun that way.) He finished up by writing a letter for his imaginary friend, and is now swinging a rocket from a juice box to send the letter and the seeds up in the sky.

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Have you ever sobbed over a textbook? And, no, I d

Have you ever sobbed over a textbook? And, no, I don’t mean tears of frustration and exhaustion, but over how great and how sad the world is.
Well, I admit I hadn’t. Not until I read Clan Apis about the life of honey bees with my six-year-old this week. It’s not quite a normal textbook, of course. For a start, it’s a graphic novel, but very educational, explicit and unflinching in every detail, whether it’s the stages of the bee metamorphosis or the role that male bees play in a hive. But it’s also very funny, amazingly touching, and just great!
While being very realistic about the details of bee life, the author Jay Hosler gave charming personalities to the characters, so we couldn’t help but fall in love with the spunky bee Nyuki or her sensible older sister Dvorah. When I say we, I mean our whole family, from my six-year-old son to my late-thirties husband.
P.S. As I’ve learnt from @erin_vincent35, it is a World Honey bee day! After reading this graphic novel, I feel it almost as a personal celebration. #worldhoneybeeday #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #graphicnovelart #comicbooks #comicbookartwork #kidlit #kidlitart #readingtime #currentlyreading #kbnmoms #homeschoolmom #homeschoolblog #homeschoolmum #homeschoolers #secularhomeschooling #secularhomeschooler #readabook #readreadread #jayhosler

FAIRY SHADOW PUPPETS Make fairy shadows flutter al

FAIRY SHADOW PUPPETS
Make fairy shadows flutter all over the playroom with this new open-ended shadow puppet set!

While working on the fairy shadow puppets, I liked to imagine how fairies would organize their daily routines. What kind of houses would they live in? What would they use for furniture? Would kind of relationship would they have with other small creatures?

That’s how we got a pumpkin house, a ground cherry lantern and a snail in the set! There is also a charming fairy snail herder. :-) Now, what kind of stories would you and your children make with fairies?

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WOODEN ROBOTS WITH METAL SCRAPS Last week, we all

WOODEN ROBOTS WITH METAL SCRAPS

Last week, we all made these whimsical steampunk wooden robots – from wood, screws and metal scraps!

Woodworking is a very satisfying hobby, both for boys and girls. If they know the basics of woodworking, they can make all kinds of practical and fun projects. But before proceeding to these wonderful projects, one needs to start somewhere – with learning how to hammer, drill, and screw. That’s where these wooden robots come in handy! Children can have fun making them and practice hammering, drilling and screwing at the same time.
More about making these robots on the blog!

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When I think about “crafts to make in the summer

When I think about “crafts to make in the summer”, I always think back to when we made these watermelon ships and put them into our backyard pool. Up until very recently, my son would also always remember them whenever we had a watermelon. He seems to be forgetting them now, so that may be a sign we should have another go at it. Conveniently, we’ve got two watermelons right now.
When you eat watermelons, do you feel like there is so much left, and maybe something can be done with it?

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