Service Project - New Life for Girls - Tea boxes

I am making these gift boxes for the women at New Life for Girls. Belle will be helping me to fill them with assorted tea bags and I will take them there in a few weeks!

First Day of School Gift

I made these little gift packages for the kids to celebrate Belle's first day of Kindergarten next month. I haven't decided what I'm going to put in them yet :-) But will update it when I do!

Sorting Clothes dilema?

OK, so this isn't really "school stuff", although sorting is a very important academic skill for our young preschoolers, so I guess technically it is! LOL!
Anyway, the girls (mostly Belle) are responsible for putting their dirty clothes in our hamper at the end of every day. We have a sorter for our laundry, but it does NO good when people dump all the clothes in the same little section.
SO, to remedy this problem, I made signs for our laundry sorter! The girls think it's GREAT fun matching colors to the pictures and sorting laundry all by themselves just like Mommy! And, I'm happy because I don't have to re-sort the laundry every day! It's a win-win! :-)

Ice Cream Games(2)

Since both of my girls are at totally different places with their skills (duh! I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old! LOL!) I am making activities that we can work on together, and yet they do their own separate work. So, I made two sets of bingo cards for them (6 in all). Julie's set just has capital letters on it, and Belle's has sight words. I didn't get her words from any list, I just put easy words in there that I knew she either is being exposed to in her readers or just ones that I thought she can/should learn.
I am a BIG FAN of laminators! I use mine all the time. In fact, I just broke the one I've had for about 8 years and finally had to replace it with a new one. They are very cheap (I got my new one at walmart for just $26.88!) and I get the laminating sheets from Sam's for very cheap too. If you plan on using activities multiple times, or if you have several children who you will probably want to have activities for as they each grow and learn, then laminating is awesome! I can make things once and know they will pretty much last forever! :-)
I am also a big fan of Boardmaker software. It's very expensive, but for educators it is awesome! I got mine while I was in Grad School b/c I didn't spend much time on campus or at my elementary schools I was working at. I wanted to make sure I could work from home and still have everything I need. Whenever I have picture symbols (you'll see some eventually), or BINGO CARDS especially, I used this software to make them.
You could probably use Word and just make a 3x3 table, and insert your pictures that way.
Once the bingo cards are laminated, you can use bingo daubers (like we did), or washable markers, dry erase markers, or any little coins, etc. to cover your spaces. For Belle's game, I called out words and she had to find and mark them. For Julie though, she doesn't know her letters yet, so I wrote them down and said "A...Julie, can you find the A like this one? A" Etc, etc, etc.

Ice Cream - Glitter Art

We just decorated these ice cream cones with glitter pens...gotta love the glitter pens!