Dinosaur Party

The invite (my own design), 

the line on the upper right is a place for him to write his friends' name.  

I had to delay the party for a week, because of Christmas break and before Christmas break I really didn't have time to prepare and get ready, plus I thought I'd be a nice person and not give parents only a few days notice. 

My 6 year old with his cake, before all his friends arrived. 

The cake. It was supposed to be shaped like a dinosaur, like something you would see on Cake Boss, but someone (she who shall remain nameless) dropped 1/2 a pan of cake batter into the oven as she was putting the cake pan in. What a mess! It took about an hour to clean up, the night before the party. Maybe that'll never happen again!

The kids at the party making some drawings, using stencils of dinosaurs. 

Game Time: putting together a dinosaur skeleton! 

I got the download from this website: T-Rex Skeleton 

Trying to match the pieces to the picture. 

Here he is at the party, with his dinosaur hat on! Gotta love The Dollar Tree for the hat! 

The boys had a little bit to much fun talking about the dinosaur poop on the cake- 

this was all started by dad. Then the lemonade turned into dinosaur pee. 

You never can get boys off bodily function topic, can you? 

Another game- tie a string to a balloon, and then loop the balloon around one ankle. Now try to pop each other's balloons. It was crazy and the girl of the group even one the first round! 

A friend and the birthday boy take a break from running around the gym. 

These kids are adorable! 

All 6 kids together. 

I ordered some dinosaur decals from Oriental Trading Company. 

Dad said to the kids "what? Is there something wrong with my ear?" 

The kids wore Dinosaur Feet, made from foam sheets. Get the template here. 

I also added 'dinosaur toenails'.

For Directional Signs, I used this. 

Dino Party This Way

My son wanted the dinosaur happy! 

The next thing to work on is the Thank You cards. 

Please let me know if you use any of my things for your Dino Party! 

A fun time was had by all at our party! 

Letter E is for Elephant

Our letter of this week is Letter E, and I scoured the internet looking for other great mommy-blogs who have made letter E packs and activities for their kids. I just love 1+1+1=1, don't you?
But I couldn't find what I needed, or it all related to Easter, which is fine, but why do I always have to have my child study these letters when it's nowhere near Easter-time?
So I made my own.

Elephant


Elephant 2
My son has to know how to write the letter 'e' because it's in his name. At the end, and granted he only knows the first 2 letters of his long name (it's 11 letters long), but we are getting there.

Our other object we are studying is 'eggs' for this week. I love the ideas that Mom to 2 Posh Little Divas has over on her blog to do with Easter eggs. Who says I can't pull them out to use them as a learning tool? Great ideas!

We played a game with the letters, matching them and finding the big letter and the small letter. Some of the eggs were the same colors and made it easy, but a few of them were mixed, which made it hard for him to figure out. I also made him find the letters on the ABC Chart. We took turns, but I was still able to help him learn the letters by helping me find mine on the chart. I put the eggs in an empty Tide Pods container and kept it with all of our homeschooling supplies and games. We'll play this game again!

Here's a photo of my son at a wedding we went to this weekend! He's so handsome!

Transformation

Our church has been having these 'themes' that we go through each quarter. Last quarter was Hope, this quarter it's Transformation.

Boy, make it really hard for the decorating team to decorate the nursery! What can you decorate with that up to 4 years old that has to do with Transformation?

Romans 12:2 says this: Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I'm not sure if that's our theme verse, but I thought it fit, so I made this for the nursery- it's a start. I made it blue because the carpet in there is blue. Feel free to download it, if you can use it!


Transformation

Butterflies? Plenty of places online tell me how to make Nylon butterflies. But I'm sure I don't have extra money for that. Or patience. Time, I do have.

Bugs-n-Blooms has some adorable butterflies in all different sizes, and colors. If I was thinking about having another child- which I'm not- and IF it was going to be a girl- I think I'd make a butterfly room. Absolutely love!


I am thinking about making some sort of paper craft  like this one from Project Nursery, it's a do-it-yourself project. Although I might need some help from Lisa, the craft lady who goes to our church and owns a local scrapbooking store as well!

Grab My Button

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I've been wanting to do this for sometime, now. So here it is! My very own grab button. Grab it and put it on your blog!

First Freebie

If you subscribe to my blog I will give you the link to this printable I made the other day.

I'm starting pre-school with my 3 1/2 year old this year, so I'm making file folders like mad. So much so I thought about investing in a laminate machine. Then I realized I can have anything I want laminated from my local AEA (Area Education Association) for just $.50/foot! File folders work really well on their big machines, and I'm not running to the store all the time to buy lamination supplies (which would probably make us broke!).

I went last Friday and dropped off a whole folder of stuff for the gal to laminate, and by the time I got back from running my errands it was done! All I had to do was cut, cut, cut! I've made 4 file folders- 2 regular and 2 tot lap books. My son loves using the dry erase marker on them and then erasing it! I've made Robots, Word World, Thomas and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom folders.

I found my great lap books and file folder downloads over at http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/
The other blog I'm using is: http://totallytots.blogspot.com/ . Starting with these two blogs has given me a lot of content and free downloads as well. Now I'm trying to keep them organized on my computer until I need to print them out. Hubby is going to be upset if I tell him we'll need to order ink cartridges for the printer every month- at $200 a round (we buy 2 sets of everything). It's just not something we can afford to do once a month, or even every other month!

This weeks' letter has been R... Robots, Rainbows, we even made this Rainstick from Enchated Learning. My son couldn't stop adding beans in ours, so it's a little too full!

Next week the letter is S... so I'm printing out file folders to make.... like Shapes, Seasons, Stars, and maybe even making a file folder based off the book of Stone Soup!

Which is why, if you email me at: sarah979c(at)gmail(dot)com and tell me you subscribe to my blog, I will send you the link to this download.

p.s. I have another free download for tomorrow- I made it last week- it's a simple Summer Banner!

Free Food Printable

For my first freebie, I'd like to offer you a free food printable. In our home we have a freezer in our basement that stores other food until we are ready to use it. Such as hamburger from the mother-in-laws cows, or bacon from her pigs (yummy!), we also visit the local bread store and buy bread cheaper than at the grocery store, and we freeze it. Sometimes hubby's work sends home a ham or turkey for the holidays. Thus the need of the freezer.

 Back of my basement door

With Bread missing

 

Bread on the front of my basement door

My problem came when we don't always remember to bring up the ever-important bread for sandwich making. Thus these cards are my solution. I've affixed them to the back of my basement door with sticky-tack,  so hubby or I can move one or two from the back of the door to the front of the door, so we can remember to go to the basement and get that item. This is only if we don't go right that minute or if hubby wants to tell me he wants pizza for dinner and I'm not awake yet.

These could also be used for your kids as a matching game of food that you might regularly serve at your table. Younger kids can match the pictures, and older kids would have to read the words and spell them too.  Each square is 3 x 3, so its easy for small hands, as well as manly hands to handle.

So here's the links, 2 pages to download- enjoy!

DownstairsFood

DownstairsFood2 

If you do download, please comment so I know you are getting good use out of them! 

Happy Eating and Happy Easter!