And I REALLY LOVE when I find things for a bargain.
But then of course…..
(since it’s such a great deal)
I purchase more then I need.
(Really….you’d think I ran a Zoo over here)
I’m implusive like that.
Bad for me….but Good for You, because this week I’ll be participating in the Curriculum Clean Out!
The Curriculum Clean Out is a Blog Carnival for everyone else out there like me who has extra Homeschool stuff lying around, stuff that:
“We will someday, possibly down the road, in the next seven years, put to good use.”
In reality it sits in the back shelf of a closet never to be seen again.
(But we’re somehow comforted by the fact that IF we ever DID learn about Mollusks native to Europe we have just the right creatures tucked away)
I’m kidding…..There are no LIVING creatures in my closets….
Anymore.
But anyway, I thought I was the only one with an overabundance of Homeschooling materials that are perfectly useable, but just didn’t fit our Family Teaching style.
Apparently there are others out there with the same exact problems blessings as me:
Too much Homschool Stuff.
(Enter: Curriculum Clean Out) props to Jolanthe
And we all have clean closets again.
(Sort of…..You know that is, if we don’t WIN anything from someone else’s closet)
But moving along to what I have to give this year:
This is a fantastic art set for your children, (Teacher Choice Award 2009) and it includes everything you need to make two adorable hardcover pop up books! There are stickers, markers, pre-folded and sticky tabbed pop-up shapes. There are also a few pages of instructions for how to assemble the different pop-up’s!
There is one Large Book, and one Smaller Book, and the recommended age level is 5+. Sissy (7) easily handled this project on her own, but Bubba (4) worked on his book with Mom…..and they turned out adorable! Here is my little guys book he (we) made about his Dad:
Totally Cute Right?
Okay, so here’s how you can win this art set for your little kiddos:
HOW TO ENTER:
1). (mandatory) Leave a comment below
letting me know about a fun craft your kids did this summer.
ADDITIONAL ENTRIES (optional):
2). Follow my Blogs RSS Feed (leave an extra comment letting me know)
3). Follow me on Twitter (leave an extra comment letting me know)
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AUG 28th!
Good Luck! And don’t forget to enter all the other Curriculum Clean Out Giveaways linked here!
And if you really want to get serious, check out this new website where you can share your curriculum ALL YEAR LONG!
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A friend told me about this – So, glad she did!
This week I made paper plate shakers with my 2-year-old granddaughter. She enjoyed putting on stickers and then dancing with the shakers. My kindergarten class enjoys making lapbooks. They would really like adding some pop-ups.
craft? eek! we didn’t do much crafting this summer…although, we did “make” a tent..does that count??
What a fun idea. We made home made slime this summer and it was gross and so much fun. I love your blog. I can’t wait to come back and explore. Have a great week!
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I am just getting into the whole lap booking craze, but this pop-up book looks like fun for my 4th and 1st graders.
Our craft this year, was sock dresses for naked Barbies. They’re easy, fun and you can be very creative and most of all you cloth those naked Barbies. You basically find a sock and either cut a whole in the toe and sides, or you can put them upside down for a tube sock, sock dress. I basically gave them the idea and my girls went to town. My favorite look was the one with a lace top and they put two arm wholes on both sides, under the lace, and voila (of course, you know those Barbie’s they look good in anything :))
Love the items you post – would love to try pop-up books.
We made a bunch of playdough this summer and the kids love playing with it! My kids would love to make pop up books!
This looks like so much fun! Thanks for the give away. My son is almost three, and we’ve just started writing down some of his stories together in a journal, so he is making his way up to this. A craft we did this week was a make your own board game – just a simple road made out of do-a-dot stamps, and a few foam stickers strategically placed, with things like “you got stung by a bee, go back one circle” or “the spider helps you ahead two spots,” etc. I think we’ll have to make more homemade board games in our future, because it was a hit.
I would love to win! We did many crafts over the summer, one of my favorite was when my kids got into my “extra” wood pieces box (various little wood items from Michaels) and I got out the hot glue and they showed me how they wanted to fit their pieces together and I glued them. Then we got out the paint and they went to town painting their crazy creations. It was really fun!
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We made “metamorphic rock sandwiches”. Very cool illustration!!!
With a lot of help, my son made a cross stitch bookmark for Grandma this summer. He loves to watch me and sometimes help me with my cross stitch. We also cut out a lot of dinosaurs, volcanos, and trees for his dinosaur lapbooks this last summer.
We are still fairly new to lapbooking. I don’t know how to make a pop up so, this giveaway would be educational not only to my son but, also me. I just found your site but, I plan on adding it to my favorites list!
We’re just starting out into the homeschooling realm. My nearly five year old would love this! He’s quite the little artist. I just recently started following you. It’s been so helpful!
My kids would love this.
Thanks for the giveaway
we painted bird houses as we learned about the birds in our back yard, then we made pinecne peanut butter bird feeders. We did learn that the ones we hung lower on tree the deer enjoyed also:-)
Man, I am the same way! Too much homeschool stuff! But this is a gem- my daughter and I make books together and so never fear- it would get used!
My kids did some painting this summer. We took all the supplies outside on a nice sunny day and they painted as long as they wanted to. We kept the supplies outside for a couple of weeks and any time they wanted to paint, they could pick up right where they left off. Thay also used sidewalk chalk quite a bit. :)
We did a lot of painting and mini sculptures:)
I would Love to win this!
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My son and I did a lot of home made cards to send to people this summer. We had a blast. I know he would love this.
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They made popsicle stick boxes! Heaven knows it was hot enough for them to collect the sticks. :)
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We did some classics- like peanut butter play doh and painting on giant sheets of paper (to be used as xmas wrapping paper) and tried a few new things like I taught my 7 yr old how to spray paint and he transformed several frames, the soap bottle, a recycled box that will be a pen holder xmas gift.
We also had a couple of flops- i wanted the kids to make some thank you cards to keep on hand and had them glue those tiny melty beads on them thinking they would look neat and mosaic-y. ugh! trash! And we made the peanut butter play doh with nutella and dry milk (that was me trying to up the nutritional content just a smidge)- the kids did not like it.
Wow! That’s a great idea! I have been looking for new and interesting ways to get my boys to write!
The most amazing project we did this summer was creating the human bubble machine! some pulleys and a hula hoop and a pool full of home made bubble solution. you pull the bubble around you! The boys had a BLAST!
WOW – lots of comments! I would love this as well. My daughter has had so much fun creating little books this summer. This would be perfect for her!
I would love this for my little ones…
We didn’t do a ton of crafting, but my son and I did a clay hand building class together it was so much fun!
My girls are always “making” books. They just made one for their aunt using a spiral bound notebook. They would love this! Thanks for hosting a giveaway!
learned the story about Jesus healing the blind man putting mud mixed with spittle on the blind man’s eyes – so we made our own mud AND ATE IT!! OK…not quite “mud” but made dark chocolate pudding which made a very realistic “mud” – it even smelled nice!!!;-) The children loved it!
A fun craft we did this summer was paint a wooden Christmas tree for us to use at Christmas time. I have had it a couple of years and never got around to doing it, so I thought we would do it early this year.
We’ve done several projects this summer, but recently we painted about the blessings…my daughter painted the swingset and the family!
We made desk pencil holders and a few more things.
We worked on the ABC Bible verses and made a mini “lapbook” for each letter. We just finished letter z this week. YAY!
We have done tons of crafts- but I think the favorite was tie dying yesterday :) Thanks for the giveaway!
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This would be a great activity for the kids, they love to read & make up their own stories. Thanks for entering me!
We made beaded necklaces and bracelets to give to friends for their birthdays! We are just beginning our homeschooling journey… entering year 2 and we love making lapbooks!
We made a bird paper bag puppet. Lots of drama involved!
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My son is a big Star Wars nut, so we bought a wooden mannequin doll and he painted it gold and then drew on it to make it look like C3P0. =)
This is AWESOME! Last year my 3 year old class made a Lent Lapbook. This year we are going to work on an Advent Lapbook. These POP UP Books are GREAT!
we gathered pine cones and made a little nativity to send as presents for christmas. so much fun for the kids and i to work outside clearing the floor of the forest and being resourceful at the same time!
We made nature collages after collecting the goodies from a walk around the neighborhood.
this seems to be an awesome book. We did several crafts over the summer last year but our favorite has been the paper mache earth model.
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