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We even made printable to hand out with just a coffee gift card.
Get your free printable here.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Free Blanket Gift Printable
We made these super cute gifts for our teachers this year. The main gift consists of a simple $2.50 fleece throw from Wal-Mart. You can make it even more special be adding a handmade card or ornament (see how we made ours here) and a coffee gift card.
We even made printable to hand out with just a coffee gift card.
Get your free printable here.
We even made printable to hand out with just a coffee gift card.
Get your free printable here.
Monday, December 4, 2017
DIY Good Deed Tracker for the Holidays
Every holiday season it's always a good reminder to do good for others. This year, I felt like the kids were old enough to really understand the idea of service. During our North Pole Breakfast, I added a "Good Deeds Bucket."
I found this super cute printable full of good deeds here and cut them out and put them in a cute Santa bucket from the Dollar Tree along with some blank cards so we can add some new good deeds or "catch them" doing good deeds and praise them when we see them happening.
I found a cute Buffalo Plaid alphabet banner here and made a "Good Deeds" banner for us to pin up all of the good deeds we do this season.
I've created a simple PDF with the banner so you can easily print it out without having to resize or save multiple letters. Print it out here.
I found this super cute printable full of good deeds here and cut them out and put them in a cute Santa bucket from the Dollar Tree along with some blank cards so we can add some new good deeds or "catch them" doing good deeds and praise them when we see them happening.
I found a cute Buffalo Plaid alphabet banner here and made a "Good Deeds" banner for us to pin up all of the good deeds we do this season.
I've created a simple PDF with the banner so you can easily print it out without having to resize or save multiple letters. Print it out here.
Saturday, December 2, 2017
December Daily : North Pole Breakfast : Christmas Decorating
We don't do the Elf of the Shelf (because I don't need anymore cray in my life), but we have adopted the North Pole Breakfast tradition.
Every year, before we put up our tree, we have North Pole Breakfast or Breakfast-for-dinner (depending on when December 1st falls on a weekday or a weekend.) Each kid get their Christmas Pajamas so they have them to wear all month. This year they also got a matching ornament, a candy cane, and some stickers and reindeer ears (all from the Dollar Tree).
We made some super simple Snowmen pancakes (with powder sugar and whip cream snow, a jelly bean nose, and candy cane arms). Car was very adamant about everyone eating the "healthy food" before they ate the candy... But nothing about North Pole Breakfast is healthy food. Haha.
We also added some Good Deed cards to our North Pole Breakfast. This way the kids can grab a Good Deed from the bucket throughout the month and we can hang them up as we complete them. I found the way cute free printable here. I also like to make a big deal about awarding the kids a Good Deed card when we "catch them in the act" of being a good helper without being asked.
After breakfast-for-dinner, they all put on their matching buffalo plaid pajamas (thank you, Target store pick-up!) and we got out alllllll the Christmas decorations. Last year we were in the tiny townhouse so Christmas was very much understated. This year; however, is our first Christmas in the new house and we finally get to discover all of the things we've had packed in storage while we moved.
I used to be a "fancy tree" person, but since the kids have started preschool, it is so so fun to go thorough all of the cute little ornaments they have made for us each year. We make sure to have their name and year on the back of each one. And when they (inevitably) come home with more Christmas crafts throughout December, we just add them up on the tree to admire!
We had so much fun (after a bit of a rocky start trying to find different things...) and I hope the kids always have fun memories of the Christmas season.
Watch the fun here. (We also have added some way fun DIY projects so be sure to check out our channel here.)
Every Christmas we also always create a December Daily photo book. They are so fun to flip through every Christmas and to document the fun things we do each holiday. I put them together in my Project Life App and print them at the end of the month with Shutterfly. Easy Peasy. I take a lot of photos with my "Big Camera" but I make sure to take a photo of the preview to pop in my temporary album as a place holder until I get all the good pictures downloaded on my phone. This helps me keep on track with planning and documenting the pages without having to wait for them to get downloaded. And then I can swap them out for the real-deal easily and all at once.
Every year, before we put up our tree, we have North Pole Breakfast or Breakfast-for-dinner (depending on when December 1st falls on a weekday or a weekend.) Each kid get their Christmas Pajamas so they have them to wear all month. This year they also got a matching ornament, a candy cane, and some stickers and reindeer ears (all from the Dollar Tree).
We made some super simple Snowmen pancakes (with powder sugar and whip cream snow, a jelly bean nose, and candy cane arms). Car was very adamant about everyone eating the "healthy food" before they ate the candy... But nothing about North Pole Breakfast is healthy food. Haha.
We also added some Good Deed cards to our North Pole Breakfast. This way the kids can grab a Good Deed from the bucket throughout the month and we can hang them up as we complete them. I found the way cute free printable here. I also like to make a big deal about awarding the kids a Good Deed card when we "catch them in the act" of being a good helper without being asked.
After breakfast-for-dinner, they all put on their matching buffalo plaid pajamas (thank you, Target store pick-up!) and we got out alllllll the Christmas decorations. Last year we were in the tiny townhouse so Christmas was very much understated. This year; however, is our first Christmas in the new house and we finally get to discover all of the things we've had packed in storage while we moved.
I used to be a "fancy tree" person, but since the kids have started preschool, it is so so fun to go thorough all of the cute little ornaments they have made for us each year. We make sure to have their name and year on the back of each one. And when they (inevitably) come home with more Christmas crafts throughout December, we just add them up on the tree to admire!
We had so much fun (after a bit of a rocky start trying to find different things...) and I hope the kids always have fun memories of the Christmas season.
Watch the fun here. (We also have added some way fun DIY projects so be sure to check out our channel here.)
Every Christmas we also always create a December Daily photo book. They are so fun to flip through every Christmas and to document the fun things we do each holiday. I put them together in my Project Life App and print them at the end of the month with Shutterfly. Easy Peasy. I take a lot of photos with my "Big Camera" but I make sure to take a photo of the preview to pop in my temporary album as a place holder until I get all the good pictures downloaded on my phone. This helps me keep on track with planning and documenting the pages without having to wait for them to get downloaded. And then I can swap them out for the real-deal easily and all at once.
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| Before (with back of the camera shots) |
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| After (to be printed in our Shutterfly book) |