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	<title>Skip To My Lou &#187; crafts</title>
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	<description>Craft, Create, Celebrate!</description>
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		<title>Egg Carton Caterpillars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kate and Bella have been crafty!  Their craft is perfect way to use up those egg cartons and also a great activity to go along with the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar(and some others at the end of this post).

We gathered our supplies.

After I cut the egg carton in half lengthwise, they painted and painted.
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today is National Make Your Bed Day&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...so we are celebrating with custom pillowcases and made beds (well some of us are -- remember I also have teen boys)!

To make our custom pillowcase we used Crayola Fabric Markers (I found them at Michael's Arts &#38; Crafts and used a coupon) and a plain white pillowcase.

These markers are great! Bella literally spent hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make a notepad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple little project to turn that awesome Mom's Got A Latte Do Today List into a magnetic notepad that would make a cute gift!  You can actually buy a special glue for making notepads called padding compound. I was not able to find it anywhere locally so I tried silicone sealant (found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crochet Mosaics</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/08/17/crochet-mosaics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a heavy piece of cardboard, some scraps of yard, a crochet hook and glue provided some fun today!
I crocheted some chains in different lengths (actually the girls told me what color and how long).  If they were older it would have been fun to have them crochet their own chains.

They put glue on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Playdough</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/08/26/homemade-playdough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love playdough!
 
 
Burning up daylight around here with pink play-dough.  This activity kept these two, two year olds busy for much longer than two minutes.  Actually they enjoyed themselves for a very long time.

Homemade Play-dough
Mix together in bowl:
2  1/2 cups flour
1 Tablespoon alum (found in the spice section)
In a saucepan on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggy Book and Craft-a-thon Day 3</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/08/18/bloggy-book-and-craft-a-thon-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauren and Derek of the Curiosity Shoppe are guest posting today to help promote the Read to Feed Project! Everything you will find at their shop in San Fransisco is special. They have taken great care to fill their shop with items and ideas that will delight, amuse and inspire.  You will also find them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Doughnuts</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/06/05/making-doughnuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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Today we were busy baking and making. With Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller as our inspiration we filled our tummies with yummy doughnuts.

We used 101 Cookbook's recipe for baked doughnuts. They were (yes we ate the whole 1 1/2 dozen YIKES) delicious.  I would like to believe they were healthy since they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marbleizing Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/05/25/marbelizing-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 16:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make this fun and easy marbleized paper you will need: 1/2 tsp alum (helps paint adhere to the paper), 2 cups liquid starch, liquid acrylic paints, a long wooden skewer , a 9 X 13 pan and white copy paper cut to fit the inside your pan. You can change up the size of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch time!</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/05/08/lunch-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of friends and I share a tradition of taking our kids' teachers lunch during teacher appreciation week.  We tally up the amount of lunches we need, notify our teachers and then gather in the morning to assemble the lunches.  One friend makes delicious chicken salad, another brings croissants for the sandwiches, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy May Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/05/01/happy-may-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cindylouh</dc:creator>
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We used children's straw purses from the dollar store as our baskets for our May Day flowers today
I hope your day was happy!
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