Make It Monday Link Up

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I am posting the Make It Monday link up by itself this week because my other post already contains a link up and a giveaway so there wasn't room for another widget. I will link up our crafty project below, we made our own President bobble heads.

Hello and welcome to my new link up Make It Monday! If you or your children made something awesome recently link it up. It can be a Lego creation, a beautiful masterpiece, a creative craft or a delicious recipe...you get the point! If it is something you made and created with your own two hands you can link it up

If you have a creation to share

please link up at the bottom of this post!

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Link up: Make It Monday with Kathy's Cluttered Mind.

FreeBEE Friday Link Up - FREE Valentine's Day Resources

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Welcome to a New Year of FreeBEEs. Every Friday I will share a great list of educational FreeBEE resources. PLUS...there's the added bonus of this being a monthly link up...where you can showcase your freebie posts or discover more amazing freebies from my blogging friends. The blogger link up will start on the first Friday of every month and end on the first day of the following month. Each month there will be a new link up. Link up anything that is educational and FREE including GIVEAWAYS!

Valentine's Day is right around the corner so to help you out with some Valentine's Day learning fun I have compiled a list of FREE (or very inexpensive resources) along with some fun crafts too!

Valentine's Day FreeBEEs:
With all of the upcoming holidays I decided to make my kids a holiday journal page. Be sure to download your FREE Holiday, Celebration, Festival Journal Page (you can also click on the photo below).

-Valentine's Day activity placemats
-Valentine's Day coloring pages
-Story of St. Valentine study

-Valentine's express lapbook ($1.00)
-100 FREE Valentine's Day worksheets

-Valentine math worksheets from A+ Interactive Math

-Valentine's day measurement math 
-Valentine's day idioms booklet
-February calendar cards
-Notebooking Valentine's day

-Friends and Heroes has a free music video, plus a couple of downloadable puzzles that highlight the Biblical idea of love and the real story of St. Valentine.
-Valentine's day book lapbooks and chocolate lapbook from Homeschool Share
-ABC Teach Valentines Day worksheets

-What's In The Bible? Printable Valentine cards.

Valentine Crafts:

My kids wanted to make their close friends some personalized Valentines. So I picked up a bag of foam sparkly hearts at Dollar Tree and here is the craft we came up with.

Buggy Valentines:
Materials:
-Pipe cleaners
-Foam, sparkly hearts
-Wiggle eyes
-Pom poms
-Felt
-Sequins
-Glue
-Scissors
-Magnets
-Construction paper (if you want to make a card too)

What to do:
1) Decide what bug you want to make using your hearts and let your imagination run wild. Use pipe cleaners for antennae, pom poms for heads, etc. My kids came up with butterflies, caterpillars, bees, worms, ladybugs and spiders.

Then the kids also had the great idea to turn their creations into magnets for their friends. They also made some cards out of construction paper. They wrote their fun phrases (see below) on the outside of the card and taped their bugs onto the inside.

You can come up with all sorts of fun phrases like, "I will worm my way into your heart," "I'm buggy about you," "Bee my love bug," "Bee my Valentine," "You are cute as a bug,"  or for someone you don't want as a Valentine, "You bug me."

For more fun Valentine crafts head over to my friend Joanne's blog!

Videos:
I made this YouTube playlist with several Valentine's Day videos.


eBooks/Audio Books:
-Valentine's Day! Learn About Valentine's Day and Enjoy Colorful Pictures - Look and Learn! (50+ Photos of Valentine's Day)

-Valentine's Day Love - 25 stories and a coloring book

-Valentine's Day Poems for Kids

-Valentine's Day is... The Story of Saint Valentine (Picture Book for Kids)

Also be sure to head over to Schoolhouse Review Crew Blog to find more amazing Valentine's Day resources (link live on February 5th).

I hope you find these resources useful. If you ever have any questions feel free to leave me a comment or email me. Also be sure to follow my Facebook Page where I post FreeBEEs daily.

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Link up: FreeBEE Fridays with Kathy's Cluttered Mind.

Remember when it comes to FREE resources the internet and a good search engine are your best friend. Oh and a library card!

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Make It Monday Link Up

*This post contains affiliate links. Please see my Disclosure Page for details.

If you have a creation to share

please link up at the bottom of this post!

Feel free to copy this button to share

somewhere on your blog.

Hello and welcome to my new link up Make It Monday! If you or your children made something awesome recently link it up. It can be a Lego creation, a beautiful masterpiece, a creative craft or a delicious recipe...you get the point! If it is something you made and created with your own two hands you can link it up.

I don't have a personal project or family project to show you this week but each of the kids have something that they made which they posted on their blogs. They are the first two blogs linked up!

Link up: Make It Monday with Kathy's Cluttered Mind.

365 Days of Pinterest Link Up - Week 1

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I would like to introduce you to a fun new link up and my friends blog Almost Supermom. Jordyn is a the group leader for our local homeschool group, a great wife, amazing mom to 6 beautiful children and the greatest friend anyone could ever ask for. For the last few weeks I have been helping her get her blog up and running, doesn't it look great?

Well she had a brilliant idea to put all those pins she has been adding to her Pinterest boards to good use and is committing to doing a Pinterest activity everyday with her kids over the next year. I convinced her it would make a great link up and so we are teaming up and encouraging you to do something with those thousands of pins (we know you have that many) with us over the next 365 days.

It is really simple choose a pin from one of your many boards and do it! Then blog about it and link up. Because of everything else I have to blog about (reviews, giveaways, etc) I will not be posting my activities everyday (and with my upcoming move I may get a little behind) but I will be doing a weekly pin wrap up and linking up.

Be sure to follow Almost Supermom as well as Kathys Cluttered Mind Pinterest boards to see what sort of stuff we will be doing.

So here are my Pinterest projects this week (remember it's okay to modify):

Day 1 - Tin Can Caddy

Materials:
-6 Tin cans
-Fun embellishments-Scissors
-Glue
-Scrapbook paper
-Instead of using twin like the original pin I used a metal milk bottle carrier that I found on clearance several years ago and had laying around not being used for anything.

What to do:
Cut strips of paper to fit around the tin cans. Glue in place and embellish as desired. Follow the original instructions in the pin for using twine or purchase a milk bottle carrier. These caddies can hold anything art supplies, silverware, flowers, etc. I am planning to put ours in our new Dr. Seuss themed homeschool schoolroom to hold the kids art supplies.

Day 2 - Clipboard Wall Display 

Materials:
-Double sided sticky tape
-Scissors/X-Acto knife-Scrapbook paper
-Clipboards (Dollar Tree has the best deal but they can be hit or miss)

What to do:
Cut paper to fit the clip boards, trip as needed, the tricky part is trimming around the clamp. An X-Acto knife makes cutting around the clamp much easier. You can embellish the clip boards as desired as well. This is another item I made for our new Dr. Seuss themed homeschool schoolroom. These clipboards will hang on the wall and will be a place for the kids to display their current art projects.

Day 3 - Painted Shells - This info is also posted in my shell unit study along with another fun craft with shells.




Materials:
-Large white shells
-Paint
-Paintbrushes

What to do:
Another quick and simple project. Simply have the kids paint whatever they want on the shells. Then let them dry. My kids choose to paint sea creatures on theirs including a starfish, crab and dolphin.

Day 4 -Tornado In A Jar (we had a blast doing this one with the Almost Superomom kids)

Materials:
-Pint sized jar (small jars seemed to work better)
-Tsp of dish soap (NOT Dawn, Dial worked much better)
-Tsp of vinegar

What to do:
Fill a jar with warm water, add teaspoon of dish soap and a teaspoon of vinegar. Put the lid on very tightly and shake in a circular motion with the jar parallel to the floor for 5-10 seconds. Ta-dah! You have made a tornado in a jar...about an F1 or F2.

All the kids had fun with this experiment. We experimented with different amounts of soap, water temperature and soap types to see what produced a better tornado. The above mentioned materials were what worked best for us. 

Why it works:
Inside the jar, the fluid on the outside starts spinning before the fluid at the center. When you set the jar down, you see the fluid on the outside slowing down as the fluid on the inside continues to spin. You are seeing the formation of a vortex.  

Day 5 - Handmade Rainstick

Materials:
-Paper towel tube or other long tube
-Aluminum foil
-Small dried beans, rice, pasta, etc
-Glue
-Scissors
-Paper 
-Crayons, markers glitter, etc

What to do:
Decorate your tube as desired. Next make a circle by tracing around your tube onto a piece of  paper, make 2 of these. Draw a bigger circle around that circle and then cut several spokes between the two circles. Glue the spokes onto one end of the tub to make a cap. Cut a piece of aluminum foil about one and half times the length of your tube and about 6 inches wide. Crunch it to make a long snake like shape then twist the foil into a spring shape. Put the foil into the tube. Next pour in some rices, pasta or beans. Fill the tube only about 1/10. Have fun and experiment to see how different amounts and different types of beans, etc change the sound. Take the remaining circle and glue the spokes onto the other end of the tube to cap it. I found that tape was a lot more secure for affixing the circles to the ends.  Now have fun and make some music!

Day 6 - Schoolroom Calendar
A couple of years ago I made a great calendar board for our schoolroom very similar to the one pinned. It was a great calendar and performed its job perfectly. Velcro dots are the greatest invention ever when it comes to organizing schoolrooms. This year our calendar will have very similar items on it but it will be Dr. Seuss themed. I found this great Dr. Seuss bulletin board calendar at Michaels then used my nifty sticky Velcro dots to make changing the days each month much easier.

Materials:
-An awesome bulletin/wall calendar
-Sticky Velcro dots

What to do:
Pretty self explanatory. Put a dot with hooks onto the calendar and put the dot with loops on the day and ta-da!

Day 7 - Took the day off due to the SE Homeschool Expo. I know it's not very good to miss a day within the first week but our lives are a little crazy right now.

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