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Handmade Christmas Cards- Folded Trees

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Handmade Christmas Cards Made with Folded Christmas Trees

    While looking for craft featuring pipes for my 11th Day of Christmas post, I came across directions for a folded Jewish shofar. Just before following  the last step of the directions the folded paper creation looked like it could be an pleated or folded Christmas tree.  Why not make a set of handmade Christmas cards with Continue Reading

Homemade Instruments for Kids – Flute

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  Last week I shared a four calling birds craft  as a part of the 12 Days of Christmas series I am participating in with a number of kid bloggers. This week I was given day 11. That is 11 pipers piping and we made cardboard flute to represent it. We have fun making homemade instruments for kids using everyday items. Wait! There aren’t  flutes Continue Reading

Christmas Cookie Recipes-Chocolate Covered Cookie Balls

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Christmas Cookie Recipes-Chocolate Covered Cookie Balls

  We wanted to make JDaniel’s teacher something for Christmas. The Christmas cookie recipes for cookie balls seemed like a perfect gift after looking high and low for one. Why? I wanted a cookie that would fit in the egg carton holiday gift box we made. Cookie balls can be any size of rounded ball that you want them to be. That made them perfect Continue Reading

Egg Cartons – Great Holiday Gift Boxes

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Egg Cartons- Great Holiday Gift Boxes With Holly

We love creating with egg cartons. We have made fun egg carton skeletons and  egg carton catapults. We have even used egg cartons to create a Christmas tree. I decide that they would be a great holiday gift box for cookies we made for JDaniel's teacher at school. Egg cartons are great at keeping eggs safe. We knew they would keep the cookie balls Continue Reading

Art Projects For Kids- Four Calling Birds Craft and Coloring Page

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Art Projects for Kids Four Calling Birds

  Counting down to Christmas is a whole lot of fun! We have been working on counting down with memory boxes and blessings. Here is yet another way we have been working with counting and Christmas is to count the 12 Days of Christmas. We are exploring the 12 days of Christmas with several other bloggers. Each of us has selected a couple of the days Continue Reading

Reading Comprehension- This Mouse Needs a House

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Reading Comprehension- This Mouse Needs a House

This is a sponsored post with affiliate links. This House Needs A Mouse by C. Jeffrey Nunnally is a perfect tale for retelling and sequencing. Before I tell you about the reading comprehension activities we did with this book let me tell you about the book. This House Needs A Mouse shares the tale of a mouse who needed a home. He didn’t want a Continue Reading

Christmas Gifts -Memory Countdown Boxes and Giveaway

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Christmas Gifts -Memory Countdown Boxes

  I wish I could claim this idea for memory countdown boxes in Christmas gifts as my own, but I can't. My sister Shell asked my other sister Kate and I to join her in creating memory boxes for my mom. The idea is that she will have numbered Christmas gifts that she can open in the days leading up to Christmas. When she opens each box, she Continue Reading

Time For My Family To Give Thanks

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Time for My Family To Give Thanks

  It is a tradition in many families to go around the Thanksgiving table share the things that each person is thankful for. I would like for you to imagine a dining room table groaning with food. Sitting around that table are my husband, my son, my mom and I. Each of us has many things to we need to give thanks for. Rather than create a video Continue Reading

Cootie Catcher Learning Games With Blank Template

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Cootie Catcher Learning Games With Blank Template

Yesterday I shared with you a cool math game that used a paper cootie catcher for the word problems. (Cootie catchers and fortune tellers are the same things.) I know some have already pointed it out. While you can think of dozens of games you could create on your own, here are some ideas for fortune tellers that I have found on the internet. I Continue Reading

Are We There Yet? – Travel Countdown For Kids

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If you have been on a car trip with kids, you have probably heard that dreaded question "Are we there yet?" asked. My son tends to ask it multiple times during a trip. Rather than respond by asking the same question "Are we there yet? back to him, I created a travel countdown. It features those dreaded words I said kids ask "Are we there yet?" I Continue Reading

Cool Math Games- Word Problem Fortune Teller

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Cool Math Games- Word Problem Fortune Teller

Cool math games take challenging concepts like word problems and present them in fun ways . They get children excited about working on them math and learning. We have been working on math word problems featuring addition and subtraction for homework at my house  lately. Some of been easy and others more challenging for us. Why not break the word Continue Reading

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