Holiday cards and Potatoes

Yippee, it cyber Monday. I'm making Holiday cards today. I missed the boat and haven't finished setting up my Etsy store. Who would of thought that the life of a stay at home homeschooling mom of 4 wouldn't lend itself to much free time for crafts and hobbies.

this snowman image is only for personal use and can not be used for custom cards sorry for the inconvenience
(if your looking for custom cards email me)

Yesterday however, I did manage to get a fun activity done up for my preschooler. I downloaded a Mr. Potato Head printable. I pulled it into psp and digitally colored it (yeah I like to let my young ones color but sometimes the ocd in me needs something to look a certain way) I had to "draw" my own potato but that was ok with a lot of cutting to get it down to size. I then laminated all the pieces and attached Velcro so my little one could build her own Mr. Potato Head while we do school work. I of course ran out of Velcro so its an unfinished project but she enjoyed playing with what was done. I am thinking when my new file folders arrive I will set it up to be a file folder game or a busy bag and maybe use good old Mr. Potato Head for some lessons on the 5 senses.

On another note, I also added a new Printables section to the blog. I have just a few up right now but will be adding more as I make them. Check them out I'd love to hear what you think of them.

How about a giveaway :)

I had a great post planned for today but alas, I got wrapped up in Thanksgiving. However I did sit down and make this wonderful little activity for my 3 year old. Fellow Homeschooling mama's know that sometimes you just HAVE to have busywork for your toddler while you work with the older kids. One of my 3 year olds favorite things is to play with Bingo Daubers. Now lost of great printables exist for this and I think we have done them all twice or more. So I decided to do one with her name. She is going to flip Monday when she sees this. So I thought hmmmm.. maybe I can make a personalized one for one of my few blog readers.



So lets keep it easy 1 entry per action
1-Tweet this post
2- Share this on facebook
3- Grab my button and place it on your blog
4- Comment on this giveaway and simply say "enter me"
Now I assume I can do no more than 5 letters on a page, but I can make 2-3 pages and you can cut/glue them or I can do one large letter per page to spell the name however you want to do it.
Here is a glimpse at the one I made for my "Cady"

just make sure you comment what you have done so I can get your entries :) Good luck :)

*giveaway will end 12/2 EST*