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Relish, Pickle, Replenish: It’s Cucumber Day
2 August, 2012 Last year’s Adventures in Canning were incredibly successful. The Chai Tea Jelly, Strawberry Jam, Lemon Balm & Lemon Verbena Jelly and Spiced Blueberry Port Jam we canned last...
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Summer Activism 101: The Kids Investigate the Mega Quarry
Tuesday’s installment for our Summer of Funner Film Festival happened to be another Wes Anderson movie, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. The kids were particularly interested in the amount of underground...
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Glam Cans 2012: Kid-Designed Canning Labels DIY
2-5 August, 2012 On Thursday, we canned double batches of our newly jazzed up recipes for Bread & Butter Pickles and Sweet & Tangy Pickle Relish. As we were waiting for our veggies to brine...
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The Kids Make Street Eats (with Beer!): Pilsner Pretzels & Hops and Robbers...
August 8, 2012 Just because you can’t walk into the liquor store and purchase a case of beer at the age of 7 or 9 (and for good reason!) doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy foods that are cooked with it, or,...
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Mad Scientist Day 2012: Ten “Sweet” Experiments
August 9, 2012 If Bea had Soap Making on the top of her Summer of Funner 2012 wish-list, the one thing that Tobes wanted to do was to “smash Skittles” [the kids absolutely love Skittles] and “make...
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The Imaginary Beasts of Riverdale Farm
August 13, 2012 Last year, we traveled to Riverdale Farm to sketch the farm animals, not knowing if the city and its mayor would pull financial support from the farm or if it would remain open to the...
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A Movable Mural
This weekend, we finished Our Big Summer Project – Our Outdoor Mural! Here’s how we got from point B to point Z, with a DIY recap at the very bottom of the page. Generating the Final Design Come up...
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Peach Day! Amaretto Peach Jam, Brown Sugar Vanilla Jam, and Giant Peach Butter
It’s good to make friends with your local farmers! On Tuesday, I was able to get out to the East York outdoor market to pick up a few freestone peaches. When I told one of the local farmers that the...
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Summer of Funner 2012 Film Festival
Since this edition of the Summer of Funner is coming to a close, we thought we’d use our final post to list the movies that we saw and ”reviewed” this summer. The theme of this Summer’s Movies was...
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The Lunchbox Season is Back
Join us over at www.thelunchboxseason.com for all of our school year adventures! And check out our first post: Our Best Chewy Granola Bars: A Flexible Recipe _________________________ Quick Links for...
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Pink Lemonade Jelly
The kids are at zoo camp this week, so I snuck in a little canning in their absence… They’ve been enjoying this pink jelly on their toast. It’s also pretty tasty on a little arrowroot biscuit! PINK...
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Exploring Toronto’s Neighbourhoods II: Yonge & Eglinton and Sorel Etrog
The kids’ first Toronto Tuesdays outing with Papa took them uptown to Yonge & Eglinton. They headed up Yonge past the Yonge-Eglinton Centre to the Postal Station K at the corner of Broadway, a...
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Summer Books: Sketching The Faerie Queene [Book I, Cantos i-iii]
Within five minutes, we had read about a knight, a lady, a dragon, a dwarf, a vomiting half-female half-serpent monster, and her combustible spawn….This week, we’re reading the first book of Spenser’s...
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Painted Targets for Balls, Beanbags, Rockets & Water Balloons
Last night, the kids and Papa created some fun “targets” for T’s birthday party. First, the kids used markers to sketch monsters and aliens on various sized boxes we collected from local shops. Then,...
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Colour, Cut, & Build This Robot! [Free Printable]
For Toby’s Birthday Bash, Blaise created this awesome Colour, Cut, and Build-Your-Own Robot. He based his design on a lovely set of cardboard robots we received as a gift. He drew the image and then...
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Easy Outdoor Birthday Bash
Toby had a Birthday Bash on Thursday. Since the weather was good, we decided to “keep it simple,” or, as simple as you can with a large group of 8-10 year olds, by playing minute-to-win-it-style...
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Birthday Surprise: Chocolate Milk Piñata Cake
I made this cake for Toby’s 8th Birthday today! He requested a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and Rolos on top. Little does he know that when he slices into it tonight, a whole treasure trove...
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Summer Books: Comparing Performances of Macbeth
It’s Shakespeare week. And, really, It couldn’t have come at a better time…for any of us. As you may know, we tackled the lovely Winter’s Tale last Christmas by illustrating our favourite scenes and...
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“Ping Pong” and Paper Airplanes
Some days you just need to take it easy! Just the other day, we set the kids loose in the backyard, and they ended up knocking two items off of our Summer of Funner Bucket List in one fell swoop....
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The Peaches Cookbook, A Love Story [and Caramelized Peach Frozen Yogurt]
This is more of a love letter than a traditional post … One of the best pieces of prose I’ve read in a long time has got to be Kelly Alexander’s Introduction to her new cookbook, Peaches: A Savor the...
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