Elf in Training Day 8

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Elf in Training Day 8

We continue our advent adventures with Day 8. Click here for a full copy or to print your own advent activities. The categories we choose for 2017: Family Holiday Activity, Elf in Training and Workout Challenge.

Day 8 Tasks:

Kindness Challenge

1. Make and distribute a blessing bag to a homeless person:

Here are some ideas to include in a blessing bag:

Toothbrush and toothpaste
Tissues
Baby Wipes
Bandaids
Disposable razor
Water
Nuts
Granola Bar
Crackers and cheese
Socks
Comb
Deodorant
A personal note
A list of shelters or food banks in the area

2. Bring Coffee to your Teacher or Co-worker

Who doesn’t love a cup of warm, delightful coffee on a chilly day? Share the love with a cup of coffee. Don’t have a child in school, splurge on a cup for a friend or coworker. I may head over to the local coffee shop, grab a couple of gift cards and drop them into the teachers boxes unannounced.

Family Holiday Activity

Play a Board Game by the Fire

It’s finally getting chilly down in the south tonight. Who knew having a fireplace in Florida would come in handy. While enjoying the warmth from the fire, we will play a board-game with the family. With a third, first and preschooler, our top favorite games are:

Quelf Jr.

Castle Panic

Cauldron Quest

Workout Challenge

8 TRX Pushups & TRX Inverted Rows

Back to the TRX Straps today with 8 of each exercise. Take a look at the diagrams to see how we do our pushups and rows.

Elf in Training Day 7

December 7, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, Elf in Training Kindness Campaign, Elf in Training- Kindness Campaign, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Elf in Training Day 7

We continue our advent adventures with Day 7. Click here for a full copy or to print your own advent activities. The categories we choose for 2017: Family Holiday Activity, Elf in Training and Workout Challenge.

Day 7 Tasks:

Random Acts of Kindness

1. Put Money in the Salvation Army Bucket

Plunk a couple coins in the local Salvation Army Bucket. Loose change in your car, purse or wallet, it doesn’t have to be much, every little bit helps!

2. Contribute to a Food Drive

This is the season for giving and numerous centers are hosting Food Drives. In fact our girls school is asking for contributions this week.

Family Holiday Activity

Enjoy a Cup of Hot Chocolate

Who doesn’t love to snuggle up with a good book and a mug of rich, milk chocolate? Cold or hot, we will conclude our day reading, snuggling and enjoy a nice cup of chocolatey goodness.

Workout Challenge

7 Reverse Lunges (Right and Left) 7 Squats

Quick and simple, add this leg work onto your normal routine and complete day 7 of the fitness advent.

Images from ChristinaCarlyle.com

Elf in Training Day 6

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Elf in Training Day 6

We continue our advent adventures with Day 6. Click here for a full copy or to print your own advent activities. The categories we choose for 2017: Family Holiday Activity, Elf in Training and Workout Challenge.

Day 6 Tasks:

Elf in Training

1. Leave an anonymous thank you note for a teacher, friend or co-worker.

Has someone made a difference in you or your child’s life? Leave them a simple thank you. You can add your name or keep it a secret. Just remember to give away positive encouragement!

2. Give away an Ornament to a Friend or Stranger

This falls perfect in line with our family holiday activity. I’ll have the kids make an extra ornament so they can keep one and give one away.

Family Holiday Activity

Make a Christmas Ornament

For a simple, kid friendly activity, I came up with this adorable ornament. To make your own repurposed crafty ornaments consider the following materials:

Wooden shapes (found at Target or Walmart less then .50 an item
Felt shaped ornaments either store bought or cut your own. I found mine at Hobby Lobby 50% off.
gems, buttons or holiday stickers
glitter
glue, fabric glue and hot glue
paint

Have children paint the wooden shape and embellish with glitter. Decorate with buttons, gems or holiday stickers. Use the hot glue gun if the fabric glue or regular glue isn’t holding the ornaments.

Workout Challenge

6 Hanging Abs

Today we add a bit of core strength into our workout with hanging abs. Using the pull up bar, we hold steady and bring knees to the chest for 1 rep, repeating 6 times. For more core exercises to try with a pull-up bar, check out this blog posting from Redefining Strength . Don’t have a pull-up bar for hanging abs, use two chairs with arm rests or Equalizer Bars.

Elf in Training Day 4

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Elf in Training Day 4

We continue our advent adventures with Day 4. Click here for a full copy or to print your own advent activities. The categories we choose for 2017: Family Holiday Activity, Random Acts of Kindness and Workout Challenge.

Day 4 Tasks:

Elf in Training

1. Befriend Somone New

If you have kids, head out to the park and meet new friends.
Say hello to someone waiting in line.
Listen to someone’s story.

2. Shake Hands with Someone

Pratice your hand shake and greet someone new today with a smile!

Family Holiday Activity

Make a Gift for Your Teacher

This craft took a few days to complete, however kids sure had fun finishing these unique gifts for their teachers today. Glitter art is easy, fun and inexpensive however a bit time consuming.

Supplies Needed:

A Wooden Object
Spray Paint (optional)
Clear Sealing Spray Paint (optional)
Glitter
Mod Podge
Paint Brush
Gems, Beads or Buttons
Glue Gun or Crafting Glue

Spray paint your wooden object (any color). Paint the wooded object with Mod Podge and cover with glitter. Let the object dry and dust off the extra glitter. Spray with the clear sealing spray to set the glitter. Decorate with gems, beads or buttons.

Workout Challenge

4 TRX Pushups

Suspend your feet with a TRX Strap or on a couch. Walk out to the pushup position, do one pushup then repeat 3 more times for a total of 4.

Image from www.shape.com

Elf in Training Day 3

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We continue our advent adventures with Day 3. Click here for a full copy or to print your own advent activities. The categories we choose for 2017: Family Holiday Activity, Elf in Training and Workout Challenge.

Day 2 Tasks:

Elf in Training

1. Our first fun Challenge!!!

Cookie Decorating Contest!! We purchased gingerbread men at the local store. Today we will pull out icing, candy, and treats to decorate cookies! Awards will be giving for most creative, delicious and silly.

2. Spend the day being positive without complaining. If you find yourself being critical, find a reason to be grateful.

Already this has been put into play today! Even for my husband and I this goal is a challenge so asking the kids to focus on this task, well, it is fun! This morning, after a grumbling on who got to call Santa on our communicator, we really had to take a deep breath, try and remain neutral and mediate between our three elves. As the sparks flew my husband and I listed what we thought was positive about each trainee (even as we personally tried to keep calm, LOL). The situation was quelled and defused thankfully quickly. We look forward to what else this task will bring, who knows, maybe dinnertime grumblings?

Family Holiday Activity

Find and Attend a Holiday Craft Fair

‘Tis the season for craft and holiday fairs. In our local town there are plenty of events to choose from today. Now it’s a matter of choosing!

Festival of Trees

Festival Market Place

H ello December at the Farm

Christmas at the Bryant House

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer the Musical

H oliday Jubilee

Workout Challenge

Three Side Lunges on Each Side

This year I’m adding onto my workout from the previous day. So far I have:

1 minute of plank

2 minutes of jumprope

3 side lunges on each side for proper form check out this illustrated exercise guide.

Christmas Tree Learning

November 26, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, Fun2Learn, Math2learn, Organize2Learn, Reading2Learn, Uncategorized, Writing2Learn Leave a comment

Christmas Tree Learning

Time for some Christmas fun! This holiday themed learning is filled with all things trees. This set includes a letter T word hunt, a decorate the tree book, math with more and less, adding on 1 more, family activities and more!

The holiday season is here and with it Christmas themed activities for Preschool. Time for some Christmas fun! This holiday themed learning is filled with all things trees. This set includes a letter T word hunt, a decorate the tree book, math with more and less, adding on 1 more, family activities and more!For a link to my Etsy page, click here.

Throughout next week, I’ll update this blog post with pictures of my little 4 year old working on some of the creative projects designed especially for preschool learning fun. Here is a glimpse of the projects created. For the full set, check out my Etsy page.

Suggested Books for Christmas Tree Reading

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story

A Wish to Be A Christmas Tree

The Last Christmas Tree

The Biggest Christmas Tree Ever

Other Activities for Christmas Tree Week

Locate, at your craft store tree stickers or parts. Use this to count and make patterns.
Decorate/Trim your Christmas Tree.
Go on a field trip to a Christmas tree farm. Walk among the trees. Find out how they prepare and trim the trees.

T is for Turkey

November 19, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, Fun2Learn, Math2learn, Organize2Learn, Reading2Learn, Writing2Learn Leave a comment

Time for some Turkey Talk!

November is here and with it fall themed activities for Preschool. This Thanksgiving themed learning is filled with all things turkey with an emphasis on being thankful. This set includes a letter T word hunt, a thankful book, math with more and less, math with adding on 1 more, thanksgiving placement cards, family thankful game and more! For a link to my Etsy page, click here.

Suggested Books for Turkey Week Reading

Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving

Five Silly Turkeys

The Silly Turkey

Turkey Trouble

The Great Turkey Race & The Silly Turkey Party

10 Fat Turkeys

Run Turkey Run

Other Activities for Leaf Week

Daily have each child write down what they are thankful for on the feathers. Create a display turkey on Thanksgiving for a Turkey Talk.
Turkey Talk: Discuss the many ways you are thankful. Use the provided feathers to help prompt the children.
Display cards: Create display cards with one reason why that family member is loved.

Rodan+Fields Christmas Gift Certificate Template

November 18, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, MyLifewithRodan+Fields Leave a comment

Rodan+Fields Christmas Gift Certificate Template

Preferred customers are the heart of my business and what a better time then the holidays to give back and say thank you to those who have supported my journey. As a special treat, this Christmas, preferred customers will receive a scratch off coupon with a variety of gifts and goodies ($10.00, $20.00, free essential item or free eye cream) off their next order of $80.00 or more. March 31, 2018 is the date set for expiration so there is plenty of time to claim their offer. Want to order, click here for my Etsy sight for a downloadable PDF. Want it personalized with your name or a different value in each ticket, please annotate on the order. Print on cardstock or resume paper for a more formal look. On the back of the card, I placed a label with my contact information. Adorable Christmas backgrounds are from Pixabay.com.

*** Does not come with scratch off stickers. Click here to order on Amazon:

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Harvest Week

November 13, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, Math2learn, Organize2Learn, Reading2Learn, Uncategorized, Writing2Learn Leave a comment

Time for some Harvest Fun!

November is here and with it fall themed activities for Preschool. This week we are learning all about fall harvest. With Thanksgiving themed learning about farm, deer, squirrels and other fall activities, your preschool child will enjoy learning all about harvest! This set includes a letter D for deer word hunt, a color by numbers, a pattern and simple counting page and an entertaining squirrel song.

Click here for a link to my Etsy site for a PDF of our leaf activities.

Suggested Books for Harvest Week Reading

Fall Harvest: Bringing in Food

Tractor Mac Harvest Time

Strega Nona’s Harvest

Hello Harvest Moon

Animals in the Fall: Preparing for Winter

Other Activities for Leaf Week

Field Trip to a Farm
Explore Tracks Outside
Go on a hike to explore nature
Create a follow the footprint game. Trace and cut out footprints. Place them around the house or outdoors for kids to follow your path or treasure hunt.

Below are pictures I will update for our upcoming Harvest week:

Summer Family Adventures

August 14, 2017venture2learn Crafting2Learn, Fun2Learn, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Summer Family Adventures

August 2017

Looking for a way to organize your summer goals, check out our August Summer Activities. Each day, during the the week, we have an academic goal, life skill or sports activity. Weekends are reserved for a fun family adventure and chosen from our families Summer Bucket List.

Week 11 Adventures!

Monday: Cooking with math-This week I’m hosting a Bon Cook online event. So, I have goal to cook a sweetie daily. My kids love to help me cook so they will be measuring and blending ingredients.

Tuesday: Life Skill Discovery- Building Home Plant Terrariums– We will post pictures and directions once we have made our creations.

Wednesday: Art Class- Edible Paint Projects- I’m creating a new recipe so I’ll post once we try and love!

Thursday: Exploring Science– Last week we found a local place to explore and discover science. The Weymouth Nature Center not only has a variety of trails to hike but it has a room designated for kids to explore and discover science with puzzles, games, puppets and a large screen microscope. We will be headed back there this week.

Friday: Sports Day 7 minute Superhero Workout My kids are in love with this workout! Plus, my youngest received a bike for this birthday. The family has enjoyed a family bike ride daily.

Family Adventure

Family Jam Session- Musical Fun!