Homemade Toy TownWritten by Deborah Shelton
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4. Tin Foil: Create lakes and rivers with flat pieces of tin foil. 5. Cardboard Boxes: Make buildings such as schools, banks and churches from small cardboard boxes. 6. Magazine Cut-Outs: Glue pictures from magazines onto small cardboard boxes to represent type of buildings in town. For example, glue a picture of a store or school onto a box. 7. Thread Spools: Set these in a park area, to use as tables. 8. Cotton Balls: Turn your town into a winter wonderland with fluffy puffs of cotton. 9. Popsicle Sticks: Great materials for building fences and bridges. 10. Kitchen Scale: Bring into play a small kitchen scale to use as a weigh station for cars.
Deborah Shelton is a mother, a freelance writer, and author of the brand new book, "The Five Minute Parent: Fun & Fast Activities for You and Your Little Ones." Visit Deborah's website for more fun ideas and book ordering information: http://www.fiveminuteparent.com
| | My Mother, the PersonWritten by Heidi B. Lapin
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A few years later, Mom and I began working out our kinks. We both realize now, that we both had our own demons as individual people. It was 2 hormonally changing females who both got short end of The Stick of Life, together, against world. What's lesson we both learned in time? Those two words I just said...Together. Together we are mother and daughter, sometimes against world still, but not against one another. I know now that my mom was more than MY MOM, she was a woman, a wife, an ex-wife, a working woman, a daughter, a sister, and more. At age 32, I still believe world revolves around me, but now I know that it's not my mother's life-purpose to keep that world moving. I think now I have earned her respect as her daughter, and as a person. I know she sure earned mine. If she wasn't my mom, I would be so lucky just to know her.
A 9 time published author of poetry, a long-time practicing witch, and day career of a 14 year manager of a veterinary hospital, I am hoping to publish my own first non-fiction book of writings and poetry in the near future. I have been writing and creating my own "greeting cards" since approximately age of 7 and still continue to date.
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