Repurpose Pants to Purses

When I was a little girl, my mom used to make bags for us out of old jeans. When she came to visit, she saw all of the jeans that my kids could no longer wear and came up with the brilliant idea of turning a few of them them into purses. So, rather than a big bag made from adult sized jeans, she made little purses out of kid sized jeans. My daughter helped out and here are a few of the purses that they made!

I know that this next purse is not made from jeans, but my mom made this super cute purse from a pair of my daughter’s old shorts! It turned out SOOOOO cute! I am convinced that it could be sold in a store somewhere!!!

Anyhow, to make the purses, all she did was cut the jeans off in the crotch area and stitch the bottom closed. Use the leg of the jeans/shorts to cut a handle for the purse and stitch it on. You can add a closure or velcro to the top if you want the purse to close. You can jazz up the bag a bit by adding ribbon in the belt loops!

Words to Remember {MFW Kindergarten Printables}

As much as I love the hands-on activities and crafts in our My Father’s World Kindergarten Curriculum, I was not very good about doing the words to remember badges with my daughter. So, I came up with something a little different for the boys.

I created copywork/art pages for each of the lessons based on the words to remember. The words to remember are at the very top of the page. The lines at the bottom of the page are for copying the words to remember. The blank space in the middle of the page is for the boys to “creatively” depict the words to remember.

For example, for Lesson 1: Ss Sun, the words to remember are:

Jesus is the light of the world.

So, my plan is for the boys to trace their hands on construction paper and make a sun (similar to the one that my daughter made in this post) to glue onto the page. You could do something like that or it could be as simple as drawing or painting a sun on the page.

Like I did with the MFW Adventures printables, I decided to put all the downloads in one post rather than spreading them out. Hopefully that will make it easier having everything all in one place! Below are a few samples of the printable pages:

UPDATED: You can now download all of the Words to Remember printables from my new MFW Kindergarten Supplemental Printables page.

A Science Experiment of His Own…

One of my 3 year olds decided that he wanted to do a science experiment of his own. While the rest of us were upstairs, somehow JI snuck off downstairs and went in the candy drawer (aka the drawer that houses all of the sweets that I somehow end up with that I DON’T want the kids to eat). Realizing that he was gone, I called him back upstairs. Only later did I notice what my little scientist had done!

  

He put water in a cup, ripped open a bag of hard candy, opened up a few candies and dropped them into the cup of water. I am convinced that he wanted to try his hand at color mixing since I didn’t let him do the color wheel activity with the older kids.  LOL

Be sure to head over to Adventures in Mommydom for more Science Sunday links! I promise you will find some actual mommy-organized science activities…as opposed to my son’s covert experiment!  :-)

Expedition Earth Winner

Wow, 669 giveaway entries!!! Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway to win Erica’s world geography curriculum, Expedition Earth. We now have a winner!!!

Congratulations to commenter #42, Kami from Nurturing the Tender Years.

To everyone else, be sure to head over and purchase Expedition Earth. You will NOT be disappointed! For two more chances to WIN the Expedition Earth curriculum, head over to Spell Outloud. Maureen’s giveaway ends September 1st. 

Bible Verse & Copywork Printables (from MFW Adventures)

The kids and I really enjoyed having the Bible verse printables for our lessons corresponding to our My Father’s World 1st grade curriculum. So, I decided to do the same for the memory verses to go along with Adventures in My Father’s World.

However, this time I have all of the verses in just one post rather than spread out in individual posts. So, you can just click on the image(s) that you want and it will take you to 4shared so that you can download and print it. (If you do not have a 4shared account, you will need to sign up for one in order to access the downloads. Signing up is free.)

Please visit my printables page and review the terms of use! Thanks and enjoy!!!

Once Upon a Book {April-June 2010}

For those of you who don't know, I contribute to the Once Upon a Book feature over on Totally Tots. Basically, I choose a book(s) based on the Totally Tots theme of the month and come up with fun ideas focused on the book and the current theme.
The posts contain:

• a book summary
• a related Bible verse
• ideas for crafts, math, science, art, games, snacks, songs, fingerplays, dramatic play, fine motor skills etc.

Here are the books I chose for April through June 2010. You can click on the book images to go to the post showing what I did with my tots for each of the books.

  

 

To see all of my Totally Tots posts, click here!
Jenn