Snowman Drawing and Writing Practice: If I had a snowman, I would . . .

When kids tell their own stories, they exercise their creative thinking skills.  It's even better when they draw their stories. Then, they get to exercise another type of creativity.  Telling stories helps kids develop language skills and writing those stories helps them learn to organize their thoughts and practice sequencing events in their minds and on paper.  Even younger children can practice these skills with this snowman writing practice activity.

Snowman Drawing and Writing Practice

Snowman Drawing and Writing Practice

This two page snowman drawing and writing practice activity gives children the opportunity to practice creative thinking skills, drawing, and writing skills.  

First, children are instructed to draw a picture of what they would do if they had a snowman.  Then, they are in told to trace the dotted letters and finish the sentence on the second page.  This is a simple activity but one that gives children the opportunity to develop those critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, language skills, hand-eye coordination, writing skills, and small motor skills.

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Weekly Meal Planner - Share me on Facebook!

How are you doing with your New Year health goals?  One of our family goals is to eat at home more.  When we eat at home, we eat healthier.  We love food.  We love our local restaurants and we are a busy family so we eat out way too much.  Since we are busy (much too busy sometimes) and I don't particularly love cooking, meal planning is challenging.  Sometimes I buy too little which leaves us unprepared so we grab something on the way home or I buy too much and we end up throwing away wasted food.  Food is expensive.  I cringe at the thought of throwing away all that wasted food.  A few days ago, I sat down to create a weekly meal planner to help me stay organized.  

Weekly Meal Planner

My weekly meal planner includes space for writing down our dinner menu for each night of the week.  For my family, breakfast and lunch aren't a problem for planning.  We all have a pretty well established routine for those meals.  Meal planning for our family dinners is the challenging part for me.  To make meal planning for dinner even more challenging, one of my daughters has decided to go gluten free.  I have a personal goal to eat cleaner, avoiding all those dangerous additives and preservatives as much as possible.  My husband and my younger daughter don't plan to make many changes to their dietary lifestyles.  That leaves me with the daunting task of coming up with meals to suit everyone's tastes.  It's not going to be easy but my weekly meal planner will certainly help.   

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My weekly meal planner includes 4 pages of planning space.  On the left column of each page, there is a colorful note pad image for writing down our dinner menu.  The right column of each page includes space for my grocery list.  After I write down the name of the dish I plan to prepare on the note pad space, I will list all the ingredients in the spaces on the right column.  When I finish all the planning for the week and I've listed all the ingredients, I'll go to my cabinets to check off any ingredients that I already have on hand.  Then, I'll take the planner pages with me to the grocery store to shop for any items not checked off.  I can keep my weekly meal planner clipped to my refrigerator so that my husband and my daughters can keep track of the meals I plan to serve for each night.  

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I've already tested my planner and it worked out well for us.  I used it to record my planned meals.  I used it to check off my ingredients and then I headed to the grocery store.  Tonight, I'm making a gluten free chicken recipe that I'll share with you in a future post.

In the meantime, grab your copy of my Weekly Meal Planner here and start planning your meals to help you reach your New Year health goals.

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Snowman Coloring Book for Kids - Practice Color Words (Freebie Included in this Post)

It's January!  Wells, it's almost January.  As I write this post, it is actually New Year's Eve here in the southeastern region of the United States, but I'm preparing for all the fun stuff ahead for the new year, particularly January.  I have lots of snow themed activities to share with you on my Facebook page for the first week in January.  We will be doing polar bear activities in the second week, and then on to penguin fun.  Today, I want to share with you a new file I just finished.  It's hot off the press, so to speak.  Introducing my new Snowman Coloring Book for Kids.  

Coloring is good for kids.  Coloring helps children improve small motor skills.  Coloring keeps children focused on one activity for a long period of time, helping to improve attention spans, especially kids who particularly enjoy coloring.  Coloring in coloring books helps improve creativity.

Coloring is great for other areas of development as well.  Coloring helps children build relationships when they color together.  Completing coloring pages together builds teamwork skills when children share pages and crayons.  This activity might even help improve negotiating skills as children discuss which colors to use and which colors compliment other colors.  

Children might stumble upon a science lesson when they discover that some colors, when combined, create new colors.  

Coloring can be a great way to spend time as a family.  Pull out coloring books, crayons, markers, watercolors, and tempera paints.  Set a few hours aside to build and improve on all the skills above while enjoying hours of quality time together as a family.

Snowman Coloring Book for Kids - Practice Color Words

Snowman Coloring Book for Kids - Practice Color Words

This Snowman Coloring Book includes a total of 7 pages, a cover page plus 6 pages for your child or classroom children to color.  Your kids will first follow the one step direction on each page.  For example, on the first coloring page, the one step direction says, "Color the snowman's scarf red."  

At the end of each one step direction on each page is an image of the crayon color to match the direction.  This will help your child to identify the correct color.  The color word is written on each crayon image as well as in the one step direction so your child can practice identifying color words and matching the color to the color word.  The color words to practice in this coloring book are red, orange, black, blue, purple, and green.

Here is one page I'll offer you for free.  Simply right-click and save this page to your computer.  Then, print it out for your child to color.  Of course, I hope you will consider the complete 7 page coloring book that you'll find here.

Snowman Coloring Page for Kids - Practice the Color Word "Red"

After your child has finished following the direction on each page, you can certainly allow your child to finish coloring each page as he or she desires.  Then, if you have snow in your area, get the kids outside for a fun time playing in the snow.  

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