O.k. I have been wanting to create these for years and I finally got around to creating 5. I am working on the rest of the 19 right now, so that you can have a total of 24 individual BINGO cards for Conference. I love these because they are FULL COLOR and they are me! Enjoy everyone!! Leave some comments if you enjoy these, or as other people say on their blogs, leave some LOVE!!!!
Here’s a sample of one of the cards! Isn’t it beautiful?!?!?!
It’s that time of year again when we are all frantically planning and helping with Halloween activities at school. I was put in charge of a food activity for my 1st grader’s class. I wanted to do something semi-healthy since they get so much junk when they go trick-or-treating and at all of the Halloween parties they go to. As I thought about it, I remembered my oldest kids making witches brew at a party when they were little. I remember it being a lot of fun. This is what I came up with for this year. For Witches Brew you will need the following: M&M’s, gold fish, chocolate chips, popcorn, Fritos, raisins, candy corns, & pretzels. Click on the link to get the poem that goes with it. While reading the poem add the ingredients to a cauldron and pretend to stir it. When you are finished with the poem give each child some witches brew in a snack baggie. This would be a fun activity to do at a party or just with your family on Halloween. Enjoy!
A fun idea for Family Home Evening tonight would be to play our Build A Monster game while emphasizing the importance of Halloween Safety. We discovered this monster last on on a really cute website. Divide into teams or play as a family. Once the monster is built the treat can be the refreshments for FHE that night. Talk about the list of Trick-or-Treat Safety with your family during the lesson. The list is given below:
Use makeup or face paint instead of masks
Always trick or treat with a grown up
Walk on sidewalks
Look both ways before crossing the street
If you go in the dark, wear reflective tape and carry flashlights
Plan costumes so you won’t trip over them
Have a grown-up check your treats before you eat them
Go to houses of people you know
Go to houses with lights on
Remember to say “Thank you!”
After going over these key safety points let your family know that you are going to build Frankenstein. If they successfully build him you get to eat refreshments. Ask each family member if they can give you a safety tip you talked about in the lesson. For every safety tip, put a piece of monster up. He’s a pretty cute Frankenstein, with heart boxer shorts and everything!
Another great idea is to use this for a party game and play it like Pin the tail on the donkey. Instead you are building a monster while blind folded.
Have a great Halloween this weekend and remember to be safe!!
As Halloween gets closer, so does our ward’s annual Trunk and Treat. My kids loves this event and even my oldest asked what I was going to decorate the trunk like this year. Sigh! I have no idea, was my response. Sometimes it seems that it can be really hard to think of an idea. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this YEARS ago, or why I didn’t take pictures at past events to keep as ideas for years to come. I actually googled it this year and came up with TONS of sites that have great pictures and ideas on fun ways to decorate your trunks. So in my ahah moment I share some of the fun sites with you. I love having less stress as it comes knowing I have everything ready and can’t wait for the night instead of dreading it.
http://trunkortreat.homestead.com/
http://www.tipjunkie.com/2009/09/trunk-or-treat-decorate-your-car.html
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My mom plans a day where she takes the kids to pick out pumpkins at the local pumpkin patch. Then she takes them back to her house and lets them paint them. She doesn’t worry one bit about the mess. She is great that way! The kids love painting their pumpkins. We have had bats, ghosts, witches, football players and all kinds of pumpkins. My mom also takes us to the corn maze. The kids love getting together with their cousins and going down the HUGE slide. They also enjoy finding their way through the corn maze. There is a lot of screaming and laughing as we make our way through.
I just love fall and Halloween and all the fun traditions that come with it. We are lucky to have such great grandmas. They are so much fun and they are making memories for our kids that will last a lifetime.
Since today is an organizing tip. I wanted to share one of my favorites with you. I LOVE our Holiday Organizer. Not only does it come with fantastic pages to help you organize your holidays better, there is a place for everything you have related to your holidays. Not including your decorations of course. But there is a place to help you organize your decorations as well in our Holiday Organizer. I am talking about all those Bingo games, Tom the Turkeys, Halloween Scavenger Hunts, Valentine’s Love Notes, St. Patrick’s day Neighborhood Lucky Leprechaun game, and the list goes on with our products. Then if you have additional stuff besides that, you have a lot to keep track of. I found a way to utilize our Holiday Organizer even better by keeping everything together. Doesn’t that sound familiar? After dividing my organizer into two binders, January through June and July through December, I have taken ordinary photo holders, page protectors and page pockets and turned them into my storage of holiday ideas and games. I then placed each of my holiday games and ideas in front of the cooresponding month folder for that particular holiday. It’s the perfect way to keep everything organized and keep it handy in one place. I love being able to go to that month and see all my fun games and ideas without having to search endlessly for where I put them last. Even they can get lost or even forgotten in a tote full of decorations. To give you a better idea, I took some pictures of how I put mine together. However, make it work for you and your personality. Feel free to comment about what has worked for you or you are always welcome to ask questions in the comment section and we will answer them for you.
