bust out your crayons

 I used to love these square puzzles when I was little. I would take them out and do them over and over again. It's actually just really simple. Just click here to print, cut, and play! Enjoy!

Taking some inspiration from these super cute olliblocks ,  I made some Book of Mormon Swap blocks! You can print these out and glue them to one inch blocks, but since I want to use these in Sacrament Meeting and not be super loud, I turned them into magnets! First, download the swap blocks  here . Then just print, cut, stick to 1" magnetic tape, and cut again. Then, to make these super portable, and as well as have a surface to play on, (You know, if you actually get to sacrament and don't sit on a metal chair ) I put them all in a cute little altoids tin. Voila!  Enjoy!

A little bit ago, someone asked me to make a Spot It   game for the Old Testament. So, here it is!  It looks a little something like this: And you can download it here.  If you have any trouble figuring out what the pictures are, here is the glossary! Enjoy!

I know this is nothing like what I usually do,  but I made these bookmarks as party favors for my daughter's  birthday party. I just don't want them to go to waste!   So, I figured I'd post them here. Enjoy!

For Christmas, we received the game Spot It.  We have not stopped playing it. It's basically a matching game,  but...more fun. So, I decided I'd give a shot at making a Book of Mormon Spot It game . The way you play is this: Each player gets a card. You flip one card from the main deck into the middle, and you try to find the picture on that card that matches yours. When you find it, you yell out the name of the picture and add that card to your pile. The first person to find their match, wins the card. Flip over another card from the deck into the middle and continue until you've used all the cards. Whoever has the most cards at the end wins! Here is a "Glossary" so you know what each of the pictures is actually supposed to be. They each correspond with a scripture.  You can download a PDF of the game here . Enjoy! P.S. Want another Book of Mormon game to play? Check out  Book of Mormon Swap Blocks  too!

So, I've never done anything very religious before,  but I've decided that's the direction I want to start heading. Hopefully some of you can still find things you like or use. Because I am LDS , I started with the Book of Mormon,  but I will be doing other quiet books and fun things for the Old and New Testament as well. For my LDS quiet book debut, I put together a book about people from the Book of Mormon with concise poems  to help remember their stories. Click here to download the pdf. Click here to download a zip full of the jpegs. I'm going to send mine to a photo center and put it in a small photo book for a nice finish. Also, because this is a coloring blog, I have it in black and white as well :) Enjoy!

Do you have any leftover candy from Halloween?  Even if you don't, here's an excuse to buy some more :) Here is the classic game "Don't Eat Pete!" in true Thanksgiving fashion. Just place a piece of candy on each turkey. Have one player leave the room.  While they are gone, the other players decided which turkey will be Pete . When the player returns, they start to eat the candy until they pick the candy sitting on Pete. Everyone yells, "Don't eat Pete!" and the round ends. Pick a new player to leave, and pick a new Pete!  Continue to play until you run out of candy, or you go into a sugar coma. Enjoy!

Halloween is coming! Halloween is coming! Are you all so excited? I'm so excited. :) So, here today, we have a preschool math activity.  Color, cut, and match the number of bubbles with the number on the cauldron. It's as simple as that. Enjoy!

It's sight words. It's leaves. It's the  Sight Word Leaf Game. Sounds creative, right?  For this game, we printed out the leaves, and threw them all over the floor.  Getting excited?  (For my preschooler who can't read a lick, I also printed out each word by itself and made it more of a matching game.)  I told them to find certain words, and when they did, they  raked   up  the leaves. We didn't have a toy rake. Just a regular old rake. I brushed off the dirt and spiderwebs, and made sure my girls didn't put any holes in the wall. If you're tight on space (or just don't want to get knocked in the head by a  rake wielding 4 year old) , it's still fun to collect the leaves in a pile or in a basket. That was that. And then my girls asked me to play it again. I'll consider that a success . So, I made black and white leaves as well as colored ones again. I used the first 2 dozen sight words on th...

As much as I love Fall , when it comes, I always need a refresher course on indoor activities. Life is fun and summer games   until it's too cold to go to the pool or ride bikes. Then, let's face it. We've all forgotten how to get along in close quarters.  Hopefully, this Autumn Bingo will help us all have some  great indoor fun. I've made it in black and white for coloring and also one pre-colored. :) Each has 4 Bingo cards and a sheet of... Bingo possibilities? Anyone know what they're called?  Oh, well. Enjoy!

I got a taste of Fall this week. And oh, how I loved it. So, get ready for a whole bunch of fall-ish things in the coming weeks because, let's be honest. I'm obsessed.  So, I made some more uppercase/lowercase letter matching which are a lot like my ice cream  letters. But who wants to eat ice cream when it's starting to get cold outside?  Ok. Me. I do...a lot.  Sigh. Anyway, while I started this blog as just black and white pages for your kids to color, I realized that sometimes, when you're making things for your kids, you want them to look nice . Especially if you want to reuse them. Maybe it's just me. Cause I'm OCD. And a little bit of a control freak. Either way, I have some already colored for you.  You're welcome.  Anyway, I hope you find a use for these. Enjoy!

Hey, long time no see! I think I say this every post, but I'll try to start adding things more regularly. I'm such a slacker. Anyway, for those of you who love the book "Goodnight Moon" I have a coloring page for you! I have one where everything is spaced out enough to where you can cut out the pieces, and another one that is just a coloring page. I hope you can find a use for these! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween! Do you have any scary, fun, or just plain good reads? I hope so! Enjoy!

I love mini coloring books for many reasons. So I wrote my own version of Little Red Riding Hood along with pictures to color! This time the layouts are a little different and counter-intuitive, and I have two layouts to choose from.  The first layout:  You can find the directions for putting it all together on DLTK's website  here.  They have a ton of stuff to color for every season and holiday you can think of as well as mini books. It's a great website for coloring.  The second layout is for people (like me) who only want to print out one page. While it makes the pictures minuscule, my kids thought they were so fun, and they were thoroughly entertained by them. With this one, I can't get the lines to match up correctly. So, just ignore them and follow the directions here. Enjoy!

Today, I bring to you Mother Goose! Well, Little Boy Blue. Use it as you wish, a coloring page, felties, magnets, whatever. Just enjoy!

I'm back! Sorry it has taken so long, but I had a baby. And I couldn't help but to snuggle him. All the time. Anyway, I think I can start to pull myself away every once in a while to do more updates :) So, here we go! I know I've had some ABC writing pages up for a while, but not the whole alphabet. I finally finished it. I will post them all on the "ABC Pages" page. You can get to them by clicking the link under my crayon picture or by clicking  here! The pages look something like this: I tried to make them a little silly because it's fun, and it sparks great conversation. So, there you have it. Enjoy!

Yea for Thanksgiving! I thought I'd try my hand at making a little coloring book/story book to the poem "Five Little Turkeys".  So, here it is, I hope you like it! I'm also trying new software so bear with me while I figure it out.  Just print the pages, cut on the dotted line, and staple together (don't be fooled by the numbers. They actually go backwards).  It means there is only one side of the page, but it keeps it simple.   Also, don't forget to check out my Thanksgiving "Don't Eat Pete!" game for even more turkey fun :) Enjoy! Make sure you download the pictures instead of printing directly from the blog, so it sizes correctly!