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!

Family Tree FHE

Our theme for this month's FHE lessons is Family History. We focused on the family tree tonight.

We started by singing 'Family History - I Am Doing It' from the Children's songbook. Then Brent said the opening prayer. Afterwards we read this poem:

Oh so many branches

Are on my family tree.

Each one tells a name from

My family history.

Grandma’s there and Grandpa,

And lots and lots of greats.

Each of these fine folks gave

Me all my many traits.

Branches that are empty

Show names we haven’t found.

But I’m sure to find them

If I just look around.

Filling in the branches

Sure makes my tree look neat.

When I know them all, then

My tree will be complete.

Then came the lesson and activity part. I found the idea for it here and used the tree template they had.

Train Lover was excited for this part!

I found pictures around the house and traced circles around all the faces. Brent cut them out and Train Lover and I glued them to the tree. I just used construction paper and scrapbook paper for the background. Once we completed the tree we talked about our family and had the little guy point to family members when we asked where they were. We also asked to point out where his 2 grandpas and 2 grandmas were, and he did it no problem! He seemed to think it was cool he had 2 of them.

Here's the finished product! 

I think I'm going to hang the original in a frame and then print out a smaller copy to put in the little guys Sunday bag. Such a fun and simple lesson that everyone enjoyed!

Gospel ABC Book

I've been wanting to make a little quiet book of ABC's for our Sunday church bag for awhile, and I finally got around to it and completed it today. I found a great website that had a template of the ABC's and all you had to do was add your own pictures. It was just what I was looking for! You can find the link to the template here.

You open the template in any photo editing program. I used the LibreOffice Draw program (the same one I made our Christmas newsletter on). I love LibreOffice! It's similar to Microsoft Office but it's free. There are a lot of features on it that I love a lot more than Microsoft's programs. If you don't have Microsoft Office, download LibreOffice here and you won't be sad you did.

Add the photo you want for each letter, place it behind the wording, and adjust the size so it's at least 4" by 6". All my pictures were bigger than that. I then added a border around the words to know where the picture would be once I cut it from the sheet of paper. Print the pictures on paper (or real photos from Walgreens) and add it to a 4" by 6" photo album. I got mine at Dollar General for $1. That's it! It's really simple and looks great. I'm excited to see Train Lover's reaction to it tomorrow when he pulls it out of his bag.

Here are some of the completed pages: