when we were preparing for our primary presentation, i brought in a paper music note for the children to play hide-and-seek with, and it proved they knew the words to all the songs as well as i thought they did. and it also proved that they knew how to sing loud! while bubblegum ben is fabulous ...
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the success of our families
it's been a long few months leading up to this presidential election - and what a nail-biting night last night was! no matter your party, whether you won or lost, whether right now you are happy or disappointed, let us not forget the one place where we can do the most good: our own homes. “But ...
way to go! you did it!
i used to love halloween as a kid - going around to neighbors houses and getting a ton of candy! we used to get whole pillowcases full! what i didn't like was the inevitable tummy ache a few days later after eating all of my candy in one shot. it happened year after year, and yet i kept doing it! ...
halloween treat bags
my son is going to be giving treats to his classmates for halloween for the first time this year. preschoolers are so cute - they get excited about everything! (including his teacher's halloween treat!) i've had these mini brown paper bags kicking around for a long time so i thought we'd use them up ...
make your own: kids dry-erase activity book
a few months ago i bought a school-type workbook for my oldest child but was hesitant to pull it out because i wanted to be able to use the pages over and over again and not to have the book just scribbled in and then thrown away. i thought about scanning each page and then printing out multiples if ...
halloween teacher treat using a pop-top can (and free printable label)
i can't believe we are only 3 weeks away from halloween! it feels like school just started! but because it IS almost halloween and because school HAS started, i've made a little halloween treat for our school teacher. i'm kind of new to having a child in school, so i don't know if people ...
general conference activity board
this year for general conference, i decided to make clipboards for my kids, similar to the one i made here, but full-sized instead of a mini clipboard. since they're too young to write in journals or anything even close to that, i thought it would be nice for them to have something that would ...
name that tune game | primary music time
first of all, i just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone for their interest in bubblegum ben! we had quite a few comments and a ton more emails asking for the pdf. i hope you all enjoy using him in your music time. our primary kids just love him! also, look for today's free download at the ...
“our primary colors” | activity and visuals for singing time
our primary colors is one of my favourite "fun" songs in primary. we used to do it where anyone who was wearing one of those three colors (red, yellow, or blue) stood up when that color was sung. here's another fun little thing to do with that song (that you can do in addition to the above ...
tic tac toe | music time activity with free printable
on my first sunday as the new music time leader in our ward i needed an activity that the kids would have fun with and really enjoy because, well, you know, i wanted them to think i was cool, haha. and so along with bubblegum ben, (which was a huge hit, by the way!) i saw this tic tac toe idea ...