i love planners! i have a weakness for them. but i have also become something of a thrifty/frugal person. so while i see all these yearly planners in the stores, ones that i used to buy, i think to myself that i could probably make one myself and have it be just as cute while costing almost nothing. ...
printables
santa napkin rings :: free printable template
these napkin rings bring back so many childhood memories of christmas at my parent's house! we used to have these every year on our christmas dinner & breakfast tables. as a kid, i was able to help make them (except the hot glue gun part) and thought they were so much fun! to keep up the ...
how to make a cookie sheet christmas countdown
my son asks me a hundred times a day, "how many more days until christmas?!" i tell him that it's getting closer, but that it's not even december yet. so now "when will it be december?!" also gets asked many times a day. it appears we need a countdown to december. needless to say, i am so ...
how to: be the best prepared music leader
a few months after starting this blog i was called to be the primary music leader in my ward. so since then i've posted several things i've done for music time with the hope that there would be another music leader out there who might happen across my blog and find an idea or two that they could ...
fhe kit: an attitude of gratitude (thanksgiving)
phew! this post just got finished in time for family home evening this week! are you going to be doing your fhe on the topic of thanksgiving, blessings, or gratitude? if so, this one will be easy, fast, and so fun for you to put together. but don't feel like thanksgiving is the only time to pull out ...
where’s the note? / primary music time activity idea
when we were preparing for our primary presentation, i brought in a paper music note for the children to play hide-and-seek with, and it proved they knew the words to all the songs as well as i thought they did. and it also proved that they knew how to sing loud! while bubblegum ben is fabulous ...
the success of our families
it's been a long few months leading up to this presidential election - and what a nail-biting night last night was! no matter your party, whether you won or lost, whether right now you are happy or disappointed, let us not forget the one place where we can do the most good: our own homes. “But ...
way to go! you did it!
i used to love halloween as a kid - going around to neighbors houses and getting a ton of candy! we used to get whole pillowcases full! what i didn't like was the inevitable tummy ache a few days later after eating all of my candy in one shot. it happened year after year, and yet i kept doing it! ...
halloween treat bags
my son is going to be giving treats to his classmates for halloween for the first time this year. preschoolers are so cute - they get excited about everything! (including his teacher's halloween treat!) i've had these mini brown paper bags kicking around for a long time so i thought we'd use them up ...
make your own: kids dry-erase activity book
a few months ago i bought a school-type workbook for my oldest child but was hesitant to pull it out because i wanted to be able to use the pages over and over again and not to have the book just scribbled in and then thrown away. i thought about scanning each page and then printing out multiples if ...