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!
We did so many crafts this summer it would be hard for me to pick just one. But according to my children, making the “I spy” bottles were a lot of fun.
My son LOVES pop ups! He would love to make a pop up book! We make lots and lots of books around our house!
We saw kids made books in a museum exhibit while we visited Grandparents in Taiwan this summer. They were creative and fantastic. We want to have this book and start to make our own. My kids used paper plates, feather, pom-poms, ribbon to make hats a few days ago.
We really took the summer off this year…but we are back at it and trying to incorporate a little more art in our homeschool this year. Last week my kids made Greek pottery (out of construction paper and markers). It was a lot of fun.
I think the favorite craft of my sons this summer was painting a t-shirt with bug stamps and proudly wearing it to show it to others.
We painted our own boards for mommy to then decorate with our names. We also did a creation lapbook that we are just finishing.
Our favorite craft this summer was finding out about the different insects and bugs then making our own bug using what every the children wanted.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww! how sweet
We did a ton of fun things this summer . . . our favorite craft was making a “Summer Fun Bucket” from an old oatmeal canister. We decorated it and filled it with fun activities to do together after summer schooling was done in the home. No fun wasted!!!
For Father’s Day, each of the kids helped me pour plaster into separate heart molds. When the plaster hearts dried, each kid put their handprint on theirs and decorated it to go to Daddy. We managed to hide everything as we went so it was a total surprise for him. :)
We made greeting cards for the year. The love to do scrapbooking and card making with me. BTW love the pop up book!!!
I absolutely love the book and have already begun imagining what exciting things could be done with it. Thanks for offering to share it with someone.
That would be wonderful. My grandchildren love things like that. I help my daughter with homeschooling the children. They say they get to do the fun stuff with me and the borning stuff with Mom. I do lapbooks, notebooks and units with them.
I would love this with my daughters. this summer we did tie dye with a few friends and it was so much fun!
I think the best craft my daughter made was sand art, it was an elefant shape with all colors sands, thanks so much for the giveaway and the chance to win such an awesemo book :)
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I love this Do-It-Yourself PopUp book! I bought one for my neice as a present. I was sad that my son was not old enough for me to buy one for him, too.
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We had a lot of fun making dragons out of paper, and attaching them to wooden skewers so we could make them move like the chinese dragons we saw in a video.
Thanks for the giveaway!
We painted seashells then made some awesome art by pressing the colored shells onto paper plates this summer. It was great fun! Thanks for sharing this contest for the pop up book….I love it!
We had fun this summer by training paper mache, My four year old loved it and we made a pretty pink bowl together. It was fun and so messy!
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My girls love crafts and this looks like lots of fun! This summer, we made lots of crafts. The favorite was making our own glass bowls after visiting a glass blowing demonstration.
Our fave was the moon vehicle the kids made at NASA camp this summer! We’d love to win this!
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We did a ton of crafts this summer, but one of the kids favorites was personal coloring pages for the grandparents as well as color copying them for thank you cards. They loved it and so did the people who received them.
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My daughter would love this! Some crafts we did this summer are Ispy bottles, rainbow rice crafts, and making our own bird feeders!
My 12 yo dd is quite the craftster and this summer she made several things, but her most recent project was slippers made from the back pockets of jeans. Too cute!
My kids love crafts. The funniest thing we have done my son made and painted a birdhouse and my dd loves to do beaded bracelets. This would be a lot of fun to make a book of our day out with Thomas the Train.
OH ME OH MY! My little budding author/illustrator would LOVE this! What an amazing addition! I’d love the opportunity to have this one on our TO DO list!
Thanks for the chance!
My son is an artist at age 6 and loves crafts. The best trick we learned for him is to buy stacks of school notebooks during school supply sales and then let him draw to his heart’s content. He filled about 15 notebooks over the last school year.
My boys built and painted birdhouses. It was fun. They love crafts and have created their own version of a pop-up card in the past. They would LOVE the pop-up book! Thank you.
I can hardly make my daughter use scissors, but this weekend she got to like the letter I activities downloaded from 1+1+1=1, that she was cutting and cutting and cutting… And then she glued everything with bluetack on the window in the hall:-)
What a great idea for a book! This summer, my kids and I discovered lapbooking and “mini books.” We had the best time making our own books and practicing the fun folds.
This looks amazing! Our 3-D craft hit was using a scissors resource book I found and then putting the folded paper springs behind the cut outs for 3-D animals.
We do a lot of crafts, but the most recent was we made a bracelet out of ribbon and foam butterfly stickers.
To be honest, we didn’t do much in the way of “art” this summer, except for our 5 y/o who just liked to play in the dirt and make water handprints and footprints on the sidewalk. :)
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I would love to win this. A fun craft my kids and I did involved glue and sand. We drew sandcastles on paper using glue. Then we dumped the sand all over the page, shook it off and had “sand castles”
we glued different sized pom poms together to make our fmaily members. the most fun was making the cat!
I needed something to put on the wall in the guest bathroom. I had my son paint three different pictures and I’m going to frame them. They are mostly scribble marks, but that is fine!
This summer we made very cool hand/foot print mobiles. My kiddos would love to make books, I am a wanna be writer myself so I’d love to encourage my kids down that path as well.
At the moment, my 6 kids LOVE to learn, do crafts, & share their creations & knowledge with others.
Thank you for giving them an opportunity to be able to acquire more supplies to fuel their fires for learning!
We did lots of beach & seashell crafts – my kids loved them! fun beach memories
We have spent a lot of time on sand art this summer – my daughter would pull out the colored sand every day if she could.
Thanks!
I just subscribed to your blog via RSS feeder. Looking forward to reading all your great ideas. Thanks!
Kim
My little ones are still pretty little so we do a lot of painting with paint and water and gluing with what we find in our backyard.