Baby Moses Color by Number

Printables for Kids has a new printable available. It is a color by number picture of Moses floating down the river. This would be great to use for Sunday School, VBS, or a filler item for when you have nursery and church lets out a bit later than normal (it happens!).

Enjoy!

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Free Hermie Games and Coloring Pages

Some of you may be fans of the children's dvd series Hermie & Friends by Max Lucado. My kids have a few of the dvds. I like the videos because they're clean, entertaining, and provide a positive message for children. I confess that I usually purchase our dvds when they are $5 at Lifeway and Family Christian.





This year, Lifeway is celebrating Hermie with "The Year of the Worm". Each month, they're featuring a Hermie & Friends dvd at 50% off the regular price. This month, it’s Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp, a fun and hilarious tale on friendship God’s way. Right now, the dvd is on sale for $7.49.

A lesson in personal hygiene? No way! This is the animated story of Hermie and his friends at Camp Bug-A-Boo. All is well until Stanley the Stinkbug arrives and, boy does he stink! Follow along in this lesson about friendship to help your kids understand that God makes each of us unique and for a purpose.

Lifeway also has free Hermie games and coloring pages on their site. Be sure to bookmark the site. I know you'll need lots of things to keep your children busy this summer. These would also be great for children's church, VBS, or a birthday party.

Enjoy!

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Printable Bunny Activities

Skip to My Lou has the cutest craft ideas and some of them are for kids. Cindy has just posted a bunny treat bag topper. Some other cute ideas include a bunny egg holder and a bunny napkin ring. Simple and easy!

Enjoy!

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Fun with Noggin and Nick Jr.

These past few days, it has been so cold that we haven't been able to play outside. This leaves my little one a bit more energetic and me trying to find things to keep him occupied. Thank goodness for Nick Jr and Noggin.

I've told you before all about Nick Jr. and Noggin, but let me remind you that you can find puzzles and games, videos, printables, crafts ideas, seasonal activities, and so much more! I mean, really, Nick Jr has 176 Dora printables! And you can't help but to sing along with Laurie Berkner's song, "Boots". "In my boots, in my boots, I dance around in my boots. B-o-o-t-s. Boots!" Have fun with great characters such as Toot & Puddle, The Backyardigans, Little Bill, Diego, Pinky Dinky Doo, and more.

These sites are so great for little ones.

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Learn to Read at Starfall

I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you to my newest favorite website, Starfall! I'm so excited about this website. It is one of the best I have found for helping students to read.

Here a just a few categories on Starfall and a review of them. This will give you an idea of what the website has to offer.

• ABCs - Click on a letter and the upper and lowercase letter come out with music. It tells you the names of the letters and then you click on the letters and you can hear the sound the letter makes. Next click on the arrow and/or blue letters and you'll hear and see words that start with the letter and the sound is reinforced. And if that wasn't enough, after the words, there is a game with the letters. The ABC section also shows you how to make the letters in sign language. Click on the vowels and you go to a classroom setting with a teacher who teaches a song with the vowel sound. "Listen to the short a sound. The a in cat the a in rat makes a short a sound." There are also ABC printouts which are great for teachers, homeschoolers, or moms.



• Learn to Read - Play a game with words families, sight words, vowels sounds, watch a movie about the order of the alphabet, read an interactive book, and then print out the books to keep! (My daughter's kindergarten teacher prints these out and sends them home for evening reading.)

I trust that you will enjoy this website as much as I have.

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Printable Snowman Activity

Printables 4 Kids has a snowman that you can color, cut, and build. Enjoy!

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Fun-Filled Friday: Fun with Weather

I've been looking through my boxes of teaching things. This week, I came across a weather doll that I've had for a while. I found the pattern in a book, made a copy of the pattern, colored the pieces with colored pencil, laminated the page, and cut out the pieces.


Here are some paper doll patterns I found for you all:

• Danielle's Place has a cute weather bear and a snowman doll.


• The Berenstain Bears have printable dress-up dolls. Just click on the character you'd like to see and then click "next". This will take you to several pages of wardrobe choices that you can print.


• At PBS, you can make your own Calliou and Rosie paper dolls.


• Bry Backmanor has snowpeople paper dolls.


• Utah Education has a lesson plan and doll patterns (they're not very cute though).
  

Other weather links:

• Calliou game - Look at the weather outside and help Calliou get dressed.
  
• Prekinders has some weather fingerplays.
  
• Cloud dreamer - design your own cloud and see how it looks up in the sky.
  
• Weather tools - Drag each clothing item into the correct box for cold, hot, or wet weather.
  
• Snowflake matching game
  
• What's the Weather? - Dress the bear for the weather.
  
• Weather theme lessons for kindergarten and preschool.
  
• Kindergarten weather lesson plans

Do you have any weather related ideas to share?

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Fun-Filled Friday: Nick Jr Printables

Wow! Check this out! Nick Jr. has hundreds of printables on their site. Today we printed off some Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! sheets for the kids. Here are the links that I found today. Have a great weekend!

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (16)

The Backyardigans (48)

Blue's Clues (60)

Dora the Explorer (160)

Go, Diego, Go! (35)

Max & Ruby (15)

Ni Hao, Kai-lan (10)

Wonder Pets! (18)

Yo Gabba Gabba (21)

Franklin (6)

Little Bear (6)

Jack's Big Music Show (3)

Little Bill (13)

Lazy Town (28)

Oswald (2)

Miss Spider (17)

Pinky Dinky Doo (3)

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Bingo Dauber Coloring Printables

Kids enjoy playing with stampers. Here are some links I found today using bingo daubers. If you want to try something different, then try using pom poms or stickers. Have fun!

Seasons:

• Fall


• Winter


• Spring


• Summer

Holidays:

• Halloween


• Thanksgiving


• Christmas


• Valentine's Day - includes angel, heart, flower, and butterfly


• St. Patrick's Day


• Easter


• 4th of July


• Remembrance Day

Animals:

• Bats


• Bears


• Cats


• Frogs


• Penguins


• Sharks


• Snakes


• Spiders

Other:

• Bible

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Jan Brett's Word Family Charts

Jan Brett has word family charts on her site that you can print off. Aren't they cute? The charts have the 37 most frequently used word family patterns. From these patterns, a child can master 500 primary words. Click here to see the large collection of printable phonograms.

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