Mr. Potato Head Quiet Book Page

I just got this awesome laminator in the mail yesterday. I love it! I've already laminated about 5 pages and the machine is doing great. Everything looks great and I can't wait to do more with it! This quiet book is going to come along quickly now.

I made a Mr. Potato Head quiet book page using the printable found on this website. You need to download the zip file and when you open it you'll see the 2 pages used for the potato head.

I put the printed head in a page protector. Then I cut and attached the sticky magnets using this magnetic strip. I chose to use magnets instead of velcro because I didn't want it to make too much noise during sacrament meeting. The magnets work great and hardly make any noise. I'm also using a 1/2" binder because I want to take it places. I think 1" would be too big. I'm going to rotate the pages I make to keep things interesting.

I printed the pieces for the head and then cut out each piece. Then I put the pieces in a laminator pouch and laminated the sheet. After that I cut around all the pieces. I left some space around each piece so the laminating doesn't come off. Once cut, I attached some sticky magnets to the back of each piece.

I am making many pages that have a lot of pieces, so I put all the pieces in a ziploc.

I found this 3 hole pouch sleeve at Target for 60 cents on sale. I put the pieces in there.

Train Lover loves this new activity! He did it all on his own and knew where all the pieces went without me telling him where to put them.

Tongue sticking out means he's concentrating. He had fun switching out the hats, noses, and mouths. I can't wait to get all the other pages for this book done before baby comes. It'll be a great activity book to keep Train Lover entertained at church, home, and in the car.

Number Worksheet Pages

As the previous post for Alphabet Worksheet Pages, here are some number pages I created.

You can download and print the numbers 1-10 by clicking on this link.

Alphabet Worksheet Pages

I'm working on a paper quiet book for Train lover. I have an unfinished felt quiet book I've done, but I want something I can give him soon. Especially since my time for crafting is winding down with baby #2 coming in just over 2 weeks. Yikes!

This quiet book will be great to take to church. The pages are from the Friend magazine and other resources online. There are coloring pages, mazes, and other pages that have pieces to add on with magnets. I'm going to laminate some pages and put others in page protectors. He can then color on the pages with dry erase crayons or markers.

I used the coloring pages from Crayola's website and cropped out all the stuff I didn't want. I then added some lines of each letter to practice writing. I found these great worksheets at the Twisty Noodle website. I love it because it's all customizable and you can write anything you want.

Here's a sample of what they look like

And because I'm super nice, you can print all these pages out for FREE by following this link. All the pages are in a zip file. so you will need to extract them in order to print them out.

Hope you enjoy these pages!

Role of Parents FHE

In continuing to talk about families for FHE this month, we focused on what daddies and mommies do in a family. Train lover started FHE with a prayer, and then we sang The Dearest Names.

We first talked about Daddies. Train lover asked the questions, with some help, and Brent answered them.

Then we watched the video "Earthly Father, Heavenly Father".

Next we talked about Mommies and I answered the questions.

Then we watched the video "Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God".

That was the end of the lesson, but Train lover wanted to play a game. We weren't really wanting to, so instead I pulled out a page of a quiet book I'm working on for him and let him color on it. We were really impressed when he drew 2 eyes, a mouth, and some hair on the face outline. I've never seen him do that before - proud mommy right here!

Family Proclamation FHE

This month's topic for FHE is the family. Baby #2 is coming less than a month from now, and we're trying to prepare Train Lover as best we can. This past Monday for FHE we focused on The Family: A Proclamation to the World.

We started by singing A Happy Family from the Children's songbook. Then Brent said the opening prayer.

We then watched this video by Elder Ballard. Afterwards, we took turns reading a line from the Family Proclamation summary.

http://mormonmomplanner.blogspot.com/2013/07/family-proclamation-summary.html

Then we made our craft project. I found this at A Year of FHE blog. It's a great resource with tons of printables. With each strip of paper we created 3 goals to work on in the different areas. I liked doing it because it helped us see how we can apply the Proclamation to our lives, and it's a great visual so we can all remember. It's hanging on our fridge and a great thing to see everyday.

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