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How to Get Acrylic Paint Out of Jeans Even After Its Dried

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A step-by-step tutorial on how to get paint out of jeans with pictures and video! Here's how to remove acrylic paint from jeans even if it's dried paint! I love that my daughter Lisa is a little artist, just like I was as a kid. It makes me so happy to see her love to draw, color, paint, and create. But, as a homemaker, I don't always ...

The Simplest Way How to Remove Acrylic Paint from Carpet

Oh no! Need to know how to remove acrylic paint from carpet? Here are the best tips and ideas to help you remove acrylic paint from carpet. I don't know where we got these acrylic paints from, or how, in like the first month of us being in our new rental home, they ended up on the carpet, but so it was - purple acrylic paint on our carpet in ...

How to do Preschool Painting Time Without the Mess

Looking for mess-free paints for your preschooler? Then keep reading! Big thanks to my sponsors Crayola Color Wonder and the Mom It Forward Influencer Network for showing me how to do it! My four-year-old son loves to color and draw and paint, especially when his big sisters color, draw, or paint. I, on the other hand, don't always love the ...

Letter P Activities for Preschool

The letter P is such a great letter to teach a preschool lesson on! So many words start with P! I had so many great theme ideas, but ended up (loosely) choosing P is for Plants for my children's group preschool lesson plan. Unfortunately, my great ideas for making our own little green houses or otherwise "planting" a seed didn't happen due to my ...

Letter M Activities for Preschool: M is for Music Lesson

On Monday we had our group, homeschool preschool and I was in charge of teaching again. I had the letter M and decided to do M is for Music! I minored in music in college (I played the French horn from the 5th grade through my senior year of college) and my husband was once a vocal performance major (at IU and has a beautiful singing voice). ...

Preschool Activities for the Letter I – Inch, Ice, Igloos

It was my turn to teach our homeschool preschool group this week. We had two weeks off due to fall break, and started it back up Monday. We did it at my house this week, and one of the kids wasn't able to come due to sickness. My preschool lesson was all about the letter I and the number 9. My lesson focused on teaching about how I is for Ice, ...

E is for Egg Preschool Lesson

It was again my turn to teach my daughters' homeschool preschool group. I was assigned the letter E and the number 5. While E is for Elephant was an option, I thought an E if for Egg Preschool lesson would be way more fun and hands on! *Disclosure: My Affiliate Links are used below* The Number 5 - Preschool Lesson I was in charge of teaching ...

Homeschool Preschool – Introducing the Alphabet and Numbers 1-10 to preschoolers

Today was my girls' first day of preschool! They were SO excited about it! They got their backpacks out and we put a book and some pencils and paper in them, along with some snack, and they were ready to go! We are doing a group homeschool-type preschool (or joy school?). We meet once a week for two hours at someone's home and one of us ...

Homemade DIY Toddler Fairy Wings

For my girls' third birthday, they were given sparkly fairy wings. Unfortunately the wire and nylon didn't hold up to well my rough three year olds and were soon broken, with holes in the nylon wings, and wire poking out. So, shortly after their third birthday, their fairy wings were in the trash. So, about a month ago, my daughters were ...