Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Fall”
If you are looking for something to do this week to celebrate the “ooky, spooky” Halloween (as my kindergartner says) – here are a few of my Halloween favorites. These activities are simple, traditional activities that the whole family can do together. *the post may contain affiliate links. Fun Recipes Puffed-Rice Balls One of my all-time favorite Halloween treats was …
It’s amazing the power of prayer, and in this activity — Thankful Prayers — the challenge is to offer family and personal prayers composed of expressions of gratitude for a week. There are amazing things that happen when working on this activity.
Our 7 Days of Thanksgiving continues with a fun game — the chain of blessings. Players take turns naming a blessing and writing it down on paper to create a physical reminder of the family’s blessings.
Sending thanking you postcards is a great way to help children express their appreciation for those who bless their lives.
Our 7 Days of Thanksgiving continues with this thankful tree activity. The activity focuses on naming specific blessings in the different categories in life. While a bit more complicated than our first day’s activity, this allows for more depth of thought.
Seven Days of Thanksgiving: Day 1 It’s so much fun to spend the month of November counting blessings. My family has a lot of traditions to help us remember our bounteous blessings during this month. Some are familiar, such as writing down one thing we are each thankful for each day. As we’ve focused on our blessings, we’ve begun to …
Finally, the Great War had ended. After years of muddy, horrible trench warfare and terrible deaths, the surviving soldiers could put down their weapons and go back to their loved ones. Countries could begin to rebuild and life could start getting back to normal. The armistice agreement for World War I started on the 11 hour of the 11 day …
It’s that time of year again… time to change the clocks back an hour. All my life, I have hated the time change – especially the spring change forward. Once in high school, for whatever reason, my alarm clock was wrong, and went off hours earlier that it should have. My sister and I got up, dutifully dressed and got …
Everyone seems to be writing about their fall bucket list, and I’m going to join in with a list of kid-friendly fall activities. I love fall. I think it’s my favorite time of year. Fall is harvest time in the garden; dress-up time for the trees and children; and hot cocoa time in the evenings. However, with five children, I’ve …
My preschoolers were ready for something Halloween to do. Last week, we decorated for Halloween, and that just seemed to whet their appetite for all things Halloween. Instead of locking myself away and creating something for them to look at, I thought it would be more fun for them if we made something together. We wanted something fun, simple, kid-friendly, …
