Magnetic Fairy Fabric Dollhouse

Hey there! Child of the Nature Isle is back again! After 7 months away from blogging  – too many long stories as to why -  I am here to share again. Expect random updates, less text and more pictures from here on. My site still needs some updating after all my thumbnail pics disappeared and getting these back up is a slow manual process so bear with the chaos. Anyway, the first thing I want to catch up on is the fairy...

The Birthday Camera and the Homemade Felt Case.

I have always thought it nice to make birthdays last more than just one day so when I couldn’t get Keeyah’s birthday present shipped to Dominica in time, I thought it a good opportunity to extend her celebration. I had also been making her a fairy house too, which she did get on her actual birthday (sneak previews of which I’ve been posting on my Facebook page in lieu of doing the full write up on here...

Creating Joy! Felt Counting Fish and Other Fun

  Welcome to the July 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Family Creations This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared crafts, recipes, and philosophies of creativity. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants. ***   I’ve been on a creative feast lately. As I...

Magnetic Dress up Dolls

Following up immediately on the success of the felt dress up dolls I made for my daughter recently, I decided to print some paper dolls for her to have another dress up doll game. The website Making Friends has some fabulous and free printable dolls and they have a great section on multicultural dolls which I thought would be great fun to start off with. In order to make the paper dolls sturdier and add a new dimension to the...

Mother Nature Makes me a Better Mother

Welcome to the July Mindful Mama Carnival: Mindfulness and Nature This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Carnival hosted by Becoming Crunchy and TouchstoneZ. This month our participants have shared their experiences of mindfulness and the natural world. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants. ***   I’ve had a long-time love affair with the natural world. I...

Wordless Wednesday – Liberation Homemade Pla...

Solo Parenting and Felt Dress up Dolls

It’s been a very quiet blog time. I’ve been solo parenting for the past month whilst Organic-Dad is in China on a training program. In the contest of whether I should neglect the blog or my children the answer is evident. While I’ve crafted posts almost every day in my head, I’ve been learning and creating many other things instead or writing them down. In this post I’m reflecting on my joy of parenting before...

Dominica’s New Homeschooling Group

There is now a Homeschooling Group in Dominica! There are only a few of us homeschoolers on this tiny island and yet we seem so spread out. So we now have a Dominica Homeschooling page on Facebook to communicate and start organizing collective events. Here are a few pictures from our first yoga class (which  like most of the events we’ll have, is open to all families even if you are not homeschooling). The yoga classes...

Celebrating and Sharing the Possibilities of Perfe...

Welcome to the June 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Embracing Your Birth Experience This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about at least one part of their birth experience that they can hold up and cherish. ***   It always gives me much joy when I think about my two birth experiences and the...

Wordless Wednesday: Digger Delight!

I’ve written before about how my children are fond/obsessed with Earth moving machinery. We’ve created digger books, digger birthday cake and a construction vehicle play corner. Being immersed in the world of diggers, (the generic name but trust me we know all the variations and specific terms), we see them everywhere we go and ‘spot the digger’ is our number one car-ride game. Just before my Mum left...