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The Castle Keeper Girls Host A Holiday Party
The Castle Keeper girls wanted to have a Holiday Party and I said, “Sure… but you girls have to do all the planning. I’ll find the place to have it and you all do the rest.” I really loved the camaraderie the girls showed by each one taking on an aspect of the party and planning it. They worked really well as a team. Rebekah made the invitations and kept on top of all the RSVP’s. Trisha set the atmosphere with beautiful Christmas music she curated. She also organized and made a great many of the desserts. Serenity (on the right) planned the menu and made some of the food…
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Bubbles & Bows
The Castle Keepers and Defenders met yesterday for their final meeting for the 2013/2014 year. The girls made hair bow holders (painting picture frames)and hair bows. There were some very beautiful ones! Here’s one of them up close. The girls wearing our club colors and t-shirts we designed. While the girls were busy making hair bows, the Castle Defenders and I were outside doing a few things ourselves. First on the agenda was to make sun tea. Then we blew some bubbles. 🙂 …and then we did a few experiments from http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/super-soap-bubble-solution/. After blowing a bubble on the lid, the kids would insert different objects into the bubble like…
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To Arms! To Arms! Defend the Castle!
For this months Castle Defenders, I asked what is a knight without a sword. So while our Castle Keeper girls were learning how to make journal covers, our boys were learning sword making skills. My husband taught the class and started off telling them a few stories. and then it was time to make their swords! This link has a good tutorial – How to Make a Boffer (Foam Sword). Then the rest of the day they fought and fought and in between chased chickens. 🙂 My older boys even got in on the action and took on all of them. And they all went home tired but happy “Castle…
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Scrapbooking Recipes & Teaching Boys How to Shine Shoes
Did you think there were only a few ways to enjoy popcorn? Cheese? Caramel? Plain? We found out in December with the challenge issued to our Castle Keeper girls, the variety of ways you can season and flavor popcorn. Serenity made a delicious Pumpkin Pie Spice Caramel Popcorn with White Chocolate. and Audrey made Marshmallow Caramel Popcorn. There were a great variety made and all the girls brought a sample to the next meeting for everyone to try. 14 different kinds. Unfortunately, I was unable to make the meeting because of a cough. A kind of cough I have never had before. But I’m sure you don’t care to…
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Gone to Hunting Camp
It’s that time of year. The elk hunt is upon us and we’re off camping and enjoying those fire starters that Justus made at our Castle Defenders class. He burned one before we left just to see how it would do. It was pretty amazing! It burned for over 8 minutes!! I liked how they worked so much that me and Audrey made some more just for us. I’m looking forward to a good hot fire.
