Christmas Advent: Couples Style

This is SO last minute, and I haven't taken pictures of my completed advent, but I thought I'd share it anyway in case anyone is looking for advent ideas to do with your spouse. I tried to make most "kid less" activities that are easy and fun and should help strengthen your marriage. I am excited to have something to do with my sweetheart and count down to Christmas as well.

Here are my activity ideas, if you're interested.

Thanksgiving Sound Shopping

One more Turkey Day preschool activity:

Thanksgiving Sound Shopping

A wonderful place to find literacy ideas.

*I don't know why people can't download this. I changed my sharing setting in Google documents. You can try that to see if it helped. If not, I'm not sure what the problem is. The link is working for me.

Thanksgiving Guess Who

I found these cute graphics at letteringdelights.com and had to make one more Thanksgiving game.

Thanksgiving Guess Who

Here is a better explanation of the Guess Who game rules, if anyone needs them.

Thanksgiving Games

Here a few Thanksgiving games I put together. I won't be posting a Thanksgiving Day lesson plan because:
#1. There will be millions created by other people (why recreate the wheel, right?)
#2. I already have some activities I am doing with the girls.

I did, however, put together a few easy games if anyone is interested.
I love this activity from Family Fun, so I modified it using turkeys rather than squirrels.

Turkey Hide and Seek/Memory

Turkey Bingo Game

Don't Eat Tom 

I'm having trouble with this link. I'll try to fix it later.
*Edit* I can't get the Don't Eat Tom game to upload completely. If you'd like a copy, I can email it to you.

2010 Family Halloween Dinner

We celebrated Halloween with our traditional holiday dinner. This year we themed it around monsters. The girls helped me make the decorations and everyone helped with the food. The most fun was monster mashing in our monster feet.

Favorite things: 

The Watermelon Monster

Monster Sandwiches eating the carrots

Eyeballs in our soup

Our pom pom monster garland

Great dance moves!

Monster Lesson Plan

It's been a long week and I am so tired, but I had to get these on here. Next week we're learning about Monsters in preparation for our annual family Halloween dinner which happens to be Monster themed this year. I haven't had a lot of prep/planning time, but I still feel like there are some great activities. Hope you are able to enjoy some of them.

Lesson Plan

Songs

Alike/Different Literacy Activity

Monster Say and Clap

Eyeball Sorting/Match

Math Clipart

 Slime Recipe

Halloween Costumes

These took me all week, but I finally finished the girls Sleeping Beauty Fairy costumes.

Halloween Lesson Plan

I'm doing a Halloween theme next week. Here's my plan and printables. 

Lesson Plan

Songs, Finger plays, Etc

12 Days of Halloween

5 Little Pumpkins

Puzzles

Pumpkin Sort

Spider Grid Game

"th" Ghost Game

Pumpkin Patch Book

Ghost Fliers

Witches' Stew

Happy Halloween!

Preschool Next Week

I have been on the waiting list at the library for this book:

Hooray, it finally came in! So this week we are going to use the activities at 

ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES!

Go check them out. She always has amazing things to share.

Ocean Preschool Activities

Autumn may not be the time for an ocean preschool lesson in Utah, but I wanted to do it before next Spring and the weather is still warm enough to go outside. My sister-in-law made the plan so this week I just came up with a few extra activities to go with it.

Ocean Letter Match

Build a Crab game

Number Spelling Cards

Ocean Spell Match

Ocean Animal Race