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24 Community Highlights: Beneski Museum to MASS MoCA. Hansel & Gretel to Stone Soup.

Beneski Museum to MASS MoCA. Storytelling to Marionettes. Hansel & Gretel to Stone Soup. Classical Music to Chemistry… These are just a few of the learning highlights we’re featuring this week! Get out into your community and learn while you play! And be sure to check our list of supporting book titles to supplement the learning on the different topics highlighted each week. Purchase them for your family library, or check them out… Read More

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DIY: Christmas Spider Holiday Cards

For our local Kids-Made Holiday Bazaar, Persephone (age 5) drew Christmas Spiders for her holiday cards to be sold during the event. Here she gives to a video tutorial on how to draw the Christmas Spider:

Category: Craft Ideas, Holidays, Howto, Sienna, Video Tags: Christmas, Christmas Spider, DIY Holiday Cards, Handmade Holiday Cards, Kids-Made, Santa Claus

The Christmas Spider & the Legend of Tinsel

COBWEB CHRISTMAS By Sienna Wildfield For the Kids-Made Holiday Bazaar my 5yo daughter made holiday cards using the Christmas Spider as her motif. Why the Christmas Spider? Well, last year she decided that the Christmas Spider would be coming to our house instead of Santa Claus. She explained that the Christmas Spider was Santa’s southern counterpart who gave out presents when Santa was busy. The Christmas Spider wears a hat like Santa,… Read More