Yikes, it’s December already! As I looked at my calendar last night to plan my monthly to-do list, I thought a Kidoinfo list highlighting some relevant archived articles would be helpful as readers plan their month. Find craft projects, local events, and books to read, along with tips and ideas to make your holidays a [...]
You know that we at Kidoinfo love making things with our kids. Just as much, we love supporting local artists with our gift-buying dollars. Rhode Island and Massachusetts are rich in opportunities to admire and buy locally-made items, often directly from their makers. Here’s this year’s Kidoinfo list of recommendations for buying handmade holiday gifts: [...]
By Erin Barrette Goodman Reading Amanda Blake Soule’s beautiful book, The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections, feels like sipping tea with a (very creative and inspiring) friend. How to savor the seasons, explore nature, garden, create meals, and add small touches to deeply meaningful celebrations (including birthday parties, and half-birthday-parties [...]
I applaud all who take the “Handmade Pledge” and proudly display the button—the pledge to buy only handmade things this holiday season. I make the pledge with some exceptions. Although I am an avid fan of buying handmade and make many gifts myself, I cannot say I will shun all mass-produced products completely. We are [...]
This year I am taking a simpler approach. Since I am a fan of beautiful and exotic paper and am always looking for a project that involves patterned paper, I am going to make envelopes from origami paper for each day and hang them from a string. If you want to make it even simpler, pre-made envelopes would work just fine. I plan to fill twenty five envelopes with a different word (e.g., snowflake, fancy, candle). Since my boys love stories, I think we can take turns using the “word of the day” in a sentence at breakfast or in a bedtime story—maybe on Christmas our family challenge will be to use all twenty-five words in a story. This way we do not have to remember (or stress if we forget) to make the cookies, eat the chocolate, or build a snowman (especially when there’s no snow on the ground).
Please add 2009 Community giving events here. During the holiday season, I am reminded how important community is (which to me includes friends, family, neighbors, businesses, and schools, just to name a few). Although community giving can happen any time of year, the holidays provide an opportunity or a reminder for us think a little [...]
Every year since our sons were born, we hang a new photo of each of them on a wall in our house; I love to look back and see how much they have grown and changed. The boys recently turned seven and this year’s wall photos were taken by Krzystyna Caldarone of Krzystyna Harber Photography. [...]
Having made my living for a number of years designing, making and selling my own line of handmade products and as the former co-director of the Providence Craft Show, I believe in buying “handmade” and shopping direct from the artists when possible. September is becoming a great time of year to buy art in the [...]
My kids love to take their art supplies wherever they go (as do I)—in the car, on vacation, or even to the park. Keeping all the markers and pencils together is important (and having them visible is helpful). This colorful canvas case handmade by Kreatelier, a Providence-based company, is both practical and stylish. It is [...]
Home Work: Lessons from Work at Home Parents. This series of Kidoinfo Interviews with parents is about how they manage to squeeze in work time at home (whether working for someone else or running their own business) while juggling kids, homelife, and childcare (or lack thereof). My boys and I used some of Stephanie DosReis’ [...]
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