You may remember from my post on Homeschooling Goals that one of our goals this year for Miss Magoo is to learn to tell time. We have flashcards and workbooks that help her learn about telling time, but one thing I really wanted to make was a Time Telling Clock. I remember as a kid, …
The Verse of the Week Chalkboard helps families memorize scripture together! I think that memorizing scripture is such an important aspect of the education we can give our children– and ourselves! In Psalm 119:11, it says, “I have hidden Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” When we set scripture …
One of my greatest goals in growing my children’s personalities is that they become truly generous individuals. I know that there are some children who are born with generous hearts and are just truly generous kids, but most of the rest of us are born pretty selfish, and have to be taught generosity. Obviously, my …
I am a firm believer in teaching preschoolers about money. Even before they fully grasp the concept of money’s worth, I think it’s important to be laying the foundation of how money works. Because of this, I’ve given my children chores to do that earn money, since they were probably 2 and 3 years old. …
Fun, free printable coloring pages and instructions for how to turn them into place mats! It seems as soon as Thanksgiving is over my children’s attention shift to what they want for Christmas. (Actually, my oldest has been thinking about it for at least a week or two!) Of course, it doesn’t help that all …
A hand print wreath with fall colors that is a great craft to kids to make to remind them to be thankful throughout the month of November. The kids and I always do some sort of “Thankful” or “Thanksgiving” project every year. We started with Thanksgiving trees many years ago and we used hand …
If you have kids, you instantly know what I’m talking about when I mention the 5pm blues, pre-dinner drama or the “witching hour.” I have not met a mom yet that didn’t experience this. That’s the time of day, when everything and I mean EVERYTHING can go horribly wrong! The time of day when even …
School is almost over!! Maybe your lucky and yours is already over but we have today and tomorrow and then we are done. School was a little different for my kids this year as we moved in the middle of the year and instead of putting them into another school with so little of the …
Last minute simple Mother’s Day gift idea for kids to make, these Button & Pipe Cleaner Caterpillars make a cute gift. I’ve been wanting to share this kid’s craft with you for soon and and am just finally getting the chance. I wanted to share this easy craft before Mother’s Day as it would be …
Spring is in the air! Or at least we are all hoping it is, right? Here in Texas we have been fortunate to already have had some spring weather. Though as I’m writing this is has turned chilly again. With spring, comes exploring the great outdoors with the kids again. We love going to …
Get your kids in the Olympic spirit with this fun Olympic Torch children’s craft! The Olympics start tonight!! I’m so excited, as are my kids. My son is bummed he can’t watch hours and hours of it everyday like he did with the last summer Olympics. He absolutely loved watching water polo. It didn’t matter …
We had so much fun making our Thanksgiving Placemats, that I knew I wanted to make some more. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, now seemed like a good time! This one starts with a printable as the base too. In fact, you could just use the printable placemat and be done, especially …