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Fun Printable Easter Egg Game
I found this printable game for springtime, to play with your plastic eggs & we have had a lot of fun with it!
DIY Babylegs!
I have a pair of rainbow stripe babylegs that I LOVE that I bought when Talia was a baby, and now Katrina wears them. I love babylegs, but I don't always feel that I can afford them (I drool over them though, I think they're adorable!!)
Anyway, I have seen some tutorials online for making your own "babylegs" out of knee socks. It is SUPER easy. And when I saw knee socks for $1.25 at our dollar store, I picked out a cute pink argyle pair to try it out!
Anyway, I have seen some tutorials online for making your own "babylegs" out of knee socks. It is SUPER easy. And when I saw knee socks for $1.25 at our dollar store, I picked out a cute pink argyle pair to try it out!
It took me like 5 minutes- probably less.
How to Do It:
1. cut off the feet, above the ankles
2. turn the legs inside out
3. sew a little hem
4. turn them right side out
5. there's no 5. You're done!
You better believe I'll be picking up a few more pairs next time I'm at the dollar store!
Here are a couple of tutorials with options & step by step photos (also, I'm sure you could google it & find more).
Hand Stitch (I used a machine for mine, but basically followed this tutorial)
With Cuffs (I didn't want to bother with cuffs, but the option is there!)
Month in Review - March 2010
Welcome April! :)
In March I made a couple of changes to the blog:
- a new background
- a new dropdown menu at the top of the blog (this took a lot of coding, so if you're checking it out & find any links that don't work right, please let me know!)
- a handy little tabbed feature at the bottom of the blog that will hopefully make navigating a little easier and the blog less cluttered.
Check it out! :)
1. A Mess of Balloons Birthday Party
2. Table Setting Placemat
3. DIY Babylegs (this post is coming tomorrow)
4. Angel Hair for Kids
5. Alphabet Movement Cards
6. Word Cards
7. Virtual Paper Doll Bunny
8. Easter Egg Reading Hunt
9. Mixing Colours and Melting Ice Cubes
10. An Organized Toy System (Guest Post by Jenn at A Joyous Journey)
11. Rainbow Cupcakes (oops, this won't be posted until April- I'll add the link then ;)
12. 5 Minute Chocolate Cake
In March I made a couple of changes to the blog:
- a new background
- a new dropdown menu at the top of the blog (this took a lot of coding, so if you're checking it out & find any links that don't work right, please let me know!)
- a handy little tabbed feature at the bottom of the blog that will hopefully make navigating a little easier and the blog less cluttered.
Check it out! :)
1. A Mess of Balloons Birthday Party
2. Table Setting Placemat
3. DIY Babylegs (this post is coming tomorrow)
4. Angel Hair for Kids
5. Alphabet Movement Cards
6. Word Cards
7. Virtual Paper Doll Bunny
8. Easter Egg Reading Hunt
9. Mixing Colours and Melting Ice Cubes
10. An Organized Toy System (Guest Post by Jenn at A Joyous Journey)
11. Rainbow Cupcakes (oops, this won't be posted until April- I'll add the link then ;)
12. 5 Minute Chocolate Cake
Easter Egg Reading Hunt
I got the idea for an Easter Egg Reading Hunt from Chasing Cheerios. Yesterday I finally put it into action. I added rules to ours because I knew Talia would get bored if I didn't ;)
So, she found an egg, and had to read the word before she could look for the next one (and to keep her interested I told her there was a surprise after she found all the eggs). It didn't take much- she was excitedly searching for eggs & laughing at where she would find them.
At the end she got a yellow peep marshmallow. She looked at me after I placed it in her hand and said, seriously, "Mommy. This is junkfood!" (as though she were disappointed in me)... what's the world coming to??
So, she found an egg, and had to read the word before she could look for the next one (and to keep her interested I told her there was a surprise after she found all the eggs). It didn't take much- she was excitedly searching for eggs & laughing at where she would find them.
At the end she got a yellow peep marshmallow. She looked at me after I placed it in her hand and said, seriously, "Mommy. This is junkfood!" (as though she were disappointed in me)... what's the world coming to??
General Conference Ideas
In my church, we have a General Conference twice a year. It's coming up this weekend, so we'll be listening online and attending our church building for the different sessions over the weekend.
It's a great opportunity to hear our church leaders speak, but it's a bit tricky to keep young kids interested during it!
I did some searching online & found some great, free resources for keeping kids entertained/busy/interested during conference.
First, a General Conference Notebook right from the church website. It has pictures of each of church leaders and spots to write about what they spoke about. It also has questions to answer. (This is a bit advanced for my kids)
They also have some online Conference Games that your kids can play in preparation for conference.
Check out Sugar Doodle for a cute General Conference Packet that you can print. She's also got colouring pages and other activities for ages from Junior Primary up to Youth.
There's another General Conference Activity Packet from a blogger who calls her blog, Magnify or Simplify. There are a ton of great and different activities in this one!
If you've found other resources, please share them in the comments!
It's a great opportunity to hear our church leaders speak, but it's a bit tricky to keep young kids interested during it!
I did some searching online & found some great, free resources for keeping kids entertained/busy/interested during conference.
First, a General Conference Notebook right from the church website. It has pictures of each of church leaders and spots to write about what they spoke about. It also has questions to answer. (This is a bit advanced for my kids)
They also have some online Conference Games that your kids can play in preparation for conference.
Check out Sugar Doodle for a cute General Conference Packet that you can print. She's also got colouring pages and other activities for ages from Junior Primary up to Youth.
There's another General Conference Activity Packet from a blogger who calls her blog, Magnify or Simplify. There are a ton of great and different activities in this one!
If you've found other resources, please share them in the comments!
Absent
I've not posted as much as usual lately because we've been pretty busy around here this weekend. The posts are coming though :)
In the meantime, you may notice that some images are not showing up on the blog. As far as I can determine, this is a Blogger/Picasa issue (according to the Blogger Status Page, "Our image backend is experiencing problems which may affect the display and/or uploading of photos. We are working to resolve this and will update this post when we have more information").
In the meantime, you may notice that some images are not showing up on the blog. As far as I can determine, this is a Blogger/Picasa issue (according to the Blogger Status Page, "Our image backend is experiencing problems which may affect the display and/or uploading of photos. We are working to resolve this and will update this post when we have more information").
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