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18″ Doll School Room Tutorial and Giveaway

February 26, 2013 By Thaleia 6 Comments

18″ Doll School Room Tutorial and Giveaway

Princess decided she needed a schoolroom after viewing ideas from Doll Diaries. We had created a bedroom area on a large piece of cardboard when we had upgraded our toilet. So we decided to use the back side for the school room. (We made this month’s ago and I keep promising Princess that we would finish the post. So this morning I decided to try to finish it to surprise her!)

Supplies to Gather:

large piece of cardboard- foldable at least 20″ tall
glue sticks
roll of paper
chalk board
bulletin border strips
Printable Mini-Office pages- I would visit a couple of websites BEFORE printing. Then save pdf’s so you can print 2 or 4 to a page.
Basic Directions, Charts, Desk Tag (abc, color, number days of the Week), Squidoo About Mini Office, Lapbook Lessons Mini Office

We covered the back side with a roll of white paper from JoAnn’s meant for an art easel that we had on hand. Otherwise you would see the toilet graphics. We used glue sticks and worked quickly to smooth the paper flat. Once the paper was secure on all edges we trimmed the excess paper and were ready to decorate!

We already had school themed border from the Dollar Tree from when we first began to homeschool. We also had items printed to make a Mini-Office (but realized my children had outgrown 90% of the concepts by the time we started our homeschool year!) So we pulled out the printed sheets and bulletin border number strip, shape strip, color strip, and apple strip. I had bought some supplies from a retiring teacher over the Summer so we used those items as well.

The States & Capitols sticker, Time stickers, and Attendance charts were all apart of our “beginning to homeschool” stash and most likely found at Dollar Tree!

Well, I hope you found this 18″ Doll School Room tutorial helpful in creating a school room for your American Girl, Springfield Girl, or other 18″ Dolls! Please feel free to leave a comment or question if you are having trouble finding or printing resources!

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Since we do have extra borders, stickers, and misc. decorations for a school room we decided that one lucky winner would receive an envelope of assorted goodies to help created their own school room! This is open to any US resident age 13 or older. Please enter below and we hope you win!
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Tot School- Word Fun with Boggle Jr.

February 25, 2013 By Thaleia 4 Comments

Tot School- Word Fun with Boggle Jr.

We brought out Boggle Jr. for the first time last week! (found at a thrift store for $2) Lil’ Red wanted nothing to do with the 3 letter words since there are 4 spaces! So instead of starting with 3 letter words and building to 4 letter words we dove right in with 4 letter words. I found the correct letters for him, but laid them out in a random fashion on Lil’ Red’s tray!

He kept asking for more and more “games”. He could tell me most of the letters and knew all of the pictures. I was very impressed since we had never played Boggle Jr. before. I am glad he stuck with it for quite some time before he was done. He is such a good little learner!

boggle jr

I made sure to keep track of the letters he knew without hesitation versus the ones he was not sure of. I was shocked at some of the letters he DID know. A few he got mixed up like “M” and “W” but that is to be expected at this age. (He will be 3 years the end of April.) I am sure we will be bringing out Boggle Jr. at least once a week until he gets bored with it!

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Juppy Baby Walker Review

February 24, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Juppy Baby Walker Review

Review:

So glad that I found a super sweet mom and daughter duo to give The Juppy Momentum a try. This little girl is almost 8 months old and is used to being in a toy that allows for standing and walking practice. She was ready to try and take off as soon as her feet hit the floor. Mom thought is was very neat and well made. She said she was wondering if her almost 11 year old son would be able to try this out as well. I sent The Juppy Momentum home with this family for them to use some more. Both baby and mom were very pleased with this item. You can see grins on both mom and daughter’s face.

“Very sturdy and well constructed product. Super compact and portable. Great to take to church, mom’s group, or homeschool group.”

Product Description:

The Juppy “Momentum” is a solution to a previously recognized but unsolved challenge for parents of babies beginning to walk. Babies strong enough to begin walking but not strong enough to walk alone. The Juppy builds confidence in your baby and teaches balance while you maintain your natural posture, eliminating the grueling task of hunching over while teaching your baby to walk. The Juppy has easily adjustable straps that accommodate your height whether you are 4’11” or 6’11”. The Juppy comes standard with soft hand grips that are strategically placed to provide optimum benefit for your hands; a color matched state of the art zipper is located at the rear of The Juppy for the purpose of safety, easy access and exit. You will find two Velcro straps that overlap the back zipper which again shows our commitment to providing you the safest and most practical baby walker on the market. Unlike traditional baby walkers The Juppy is a parent assisted baby walker which eliminates all of the dangers of walkers with wheels. The unique design eliminates the problems associated with similar products for example other parent assisted walkers do not have the crotch piece which is essential in keeping your baby from involuntarily lifting its arms. No more falling down stairs or reaching for dangerous objects because The Juppy requires your assistance at all times- One size fits all (baby weight not to exceed 35lbs). Made from 100% cotton that is machine washable.

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ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way

February 22, 2013 By Thaleia 4 Comments

ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way

I decided to try a few things Lil’ Red had not done before that went along with ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way. (just had to rhyme a little) I will share a collage of photos for each activity and explain where it came from or what we did during each activity.

This ABC Match-up was an activity from a busy bag swap that I did when Lil’ Red was around 7 mths. old. We had families with young infants up to 4 yrs. old in the group swap. The variety and skill level difference for each activity was great to have things stored up and now we are ready to use them! The neon green sheet was printed and then laminated. The ABC cards are dimensional glitter foam stickers put on cardstock squares. Lil’ Red liked this idea quite well and loved it when he “won the game!”

This activity I made over a decade ago, right after I graduated from college. I made this activity with metal juice lids, vinyl ~2″ letter stickers and magnetic alphabet. I had recently dug this out and it had been sitting on our back porch waiting to be played with. Some of the lids and magnets are missing but I have another 3 sets of magnetic alphabets on the back porch to remedy this. Will just have to save a few more juice lids. The letter stickers my husband had brought home from his work which was throwing them away!

This is one of those great dollar store puzzles again from over a decade ago! I have a numbers one as well. I do not know if/when Lil’ Red has played with this puzzle. I talked with him about the rows being a certain color to help give him a clue plus as to where to put a letter. I would sing the ABC song over and over again pointing at the letters and stopping on an open space.

We still have more ABC activities to pull out from my ABC BOX (again from a decade ago). We have wooden ABC puzzles with tiny knobs, wooden blocks, Boggle Jr., Word Whammer, Braille ABC magnets, ABC sticker strip, ABC small erasers, texture letters, and a start of sound boxes.

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Dr. Seuss Style Birthday Party

February 20, 2013 By Thaleia 1 Comment

Dr. Seuss Style Birthday Party

Last year for Lil’ Red’s 2nd birthday we had a Dr. Seuss style birthday party. I created some activities for Tot School then, but was not blogging and have not shared them, yet! We go a little theme crazy for birthdays (just ask my hubby!). I spent tons of time searching for ideas online and with the advent of pinterest I can organize my ideas on my Kid’s Party Ideas board!

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18″ Doll School Room Tutorial and Giveaway

Supplies to Gather:

GIVEAWAY:

Tot School- Word Fun with Boggle Jr.

Juppy Baby Walker Review

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ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way

Dr. Seuss Style Birthday Party

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