Homeschool: Where The Style Is

One of the perks to homeschooling is that it doesn't matter what anybody wears. Mom can go around in her PJs all day and still teach algebra and read great books. The kids can wear the same clothes they wore for the past three days and nobody complains. Not that either of these things would happen at my house, of course, but in theory, it could.

Behold my youngest on a recent school day:
The ordinary shirt and shorts were complimented by zany Spiderman socks, a beaded necklace, and a homemade Indian headdress.

Later the look morphed into this:

Yes, that's a homemade loin cloth, folks. It's easy to make! All you need is a pair of underwear that mom doesn't mind if you cut and tape. Add some fabric pieces, adorned with markered Indian pictographs. Just use some duct tape along the waist band to hold the fabric in place. Next, slice the underwear up the sides so that people can get a convenient peek at your nether regions. Voila! Your loin cloth is complete.

Creative Kids #1: Save a pair of pants

My kids do so many cool, creative things that I've decided to start a little series about it. Today I'm featuring my daughter's pants. They had a little yellow marker stain on the leg, and I was leaning toward just getting rid of them, when she asked if it was ok if she used marker on them to see if she could work the stain into a design. Sure! Why not?

Out came the sharpies and this is what she came up with. (pretend you don't notice the *other* stain there on the leg....ok?)

She did this all by herself, and it came out absolutely adorable. And now she has fun, funky cropped pants to wear!