Birthday Stickers

Written by Lisa. Posted in Birthdays, Tips and Tricks

Lets be honest I have many strengths, but remembering birthdays is not one of them! I am the worst! I almost missed my hubs birthday this year had he not dropped me a little hint the day before. Its that bad! I have tried so many different ways to stay organized and nothing has worked yet. I just never know what the date is. I can always tell you the day of the week but I never know if it’s the 1st, 10th, or 21st!

I didn’t get my brother Mark’s birthday card out in time and my brother Brian’s birthday is coming up. So I decided to make little stickers to put on the cards. I made 1 set for cards for birthdays coming up and 1 set for those that I accidentally missed. My goal is to send cards out once a month ahead of time so that I can try to stay on top of birthdays.

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These labels are designed for 2 x 4 Avery Labels . All you have to do is print them and they should line up perfectly with the 2×4 labels.

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So if you are like me (a little birthday challenged) hopefully these can help you too!

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Fun Kids Birthday Traditions

Written by Pam. Posted in Birthdays, Traditions

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BIRTHDAYS!  Birthdays are so much fun!  Now that my boys are getting older and really understanding what a Birthday is all about I decided that this year I wanted to start some little extra traditions to do on their Birthday.  For the most part – all the ideas I’m going to share aren’t too much work, but will make your little ones feel extra special!  I’m not going to be using all of these, but for sure some of them!  Enjoy and I hope you can find a few traditions you want to incorporate into your families Birthday traditions!

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Start or end their Birthday by making tubby time extra fun!  Source: Growing A Jeweled Rose

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I love this idea of the EXTRA Special Bday Balloons!  Put money in special balloons that your Bday child gets to pop to get!  Even just something as simple as $1 a balloon up to the age they are turning!  Thanks Increasingly Domestic for this idea!

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How about a super fun (and unhealthy) breakfast by making these ADORABLE Cake Batter Pancakes?  I know that every kid would love these!  Source: How Sweet It Is

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Lisa family has the cutest Birthday plate that the Bday child gets to use the whole day! They also have a chair cover that goes on their chair and a matching pin!  I am totally going to do this one!

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I love the idea of document the child and their likes, etc!  I like both the idea of doing it on a picture, but I also love the idea of the Free Printable above.  It gives them a place to draw a picture too!  Sources:  The Jobling Family and A Day in My Life

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Measure them each year on their birthday!  That way they can look back at all their birthday heights!  Source: Over the Big Moon

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For younger kids, having something like this Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack out for them to do that day or even the whole week will be fun! It’s the reason I created the pack!

Be sure to make it known by the neighborhood that you are celebrating a Birthday at your house!

Here are a couple ideas for the front door:

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Bday Age # by Hostess with the Mostess!

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 How can you not LOVE the idea of a Birthday Balloon wreath?!?  This would be fun for the front door or even inside!  Source: Sew Sweet Cottage

Here are a few other things that I already do, my friends do or sisters do:

- Cover the room in balloons, so when they wake up they are covered in balloons!

- Do a countdown the week leading up to their birthday!

- Pick up your Bday child from school and take them out to a fun lunch!

- The morning of their birthday, wake up them up and take them out to breakfast in their jammies!

- Make your childs Bday cake!  My sister and one of my best friends does this and their kids LOVE being apart of the process!

- Have a birthday stocking (or present) that they get to open first thing in the morning!

Hope you get some fun ideas to help make your loved ones Birthday’s a little more fun!

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Half Birthday Class Gift with Free Printable Bag Topper

Written by Lisa. Posted in Birthdays, DIY Craft, Free Printables, Holidays, Kids, Kids Activities

I had a summer birthday and hated it as a kid. It was the worst because my 1/2 birthday was during Christmas break too. Big bummer! Davis is our only summer birthday but his awesome teacher is making sure his 1/2 birthday is celebrated! I’m sure my feelings of childhood birthday neglect had nothing to do with the fact that I went a little overboard icon smile Half Birthday Class Gift with Free Printable Bag Topper Seriously though…I really love the way these turned out and think they are pretty darn cute!

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To make them I used cellophane bags, the bag topper, M&M’s, and a package of cookies.

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I wanted to do half cookies because I thought it would be cute, but I also didn’t want people to think I was just being cheap so I added some mini M&M’s. I love the way the color helped it pop and upped the cute factor.

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Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack Expansion

Written by Pam. Posted in Birthdays, Free Printables, Kids Activities, Pre-K Packs

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Here is the Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack Expansion!  This is the Expansion Pack to the Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack!  These learning activities are more challenging than those that are in our basic Pre-K Packs!  I create the Expansion Packs for my 4 year old.  To help him with mostly letter and number writing practice!  Enjoy!

In this pack is:

Letter Maze

Character Word Tracing

Character Letter Tracing

 1-10 Number Tracing

Do-A Dot/Magnet Sheets

This is meant to go along with our Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack for those who have not already checked it out!  It’s great for ages 2-5!

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To check out all our other Pre-K Packs click HERE!  You may also like these packs:

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Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack

Written by Pam. Posted in Birthdays, Free Printables, Pre-K Packs

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I thought with the New Year here that a Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack would be fun to add to our collection!  It will be something fun that we can specifically pull out the days/week of Birthday’s in our family!  One of my boys cousin’s birthday is coming up in a few weeks, so I wanted to get it done for my boys to do that week!

In this Pre-K Pack you will enjoy:

Prewriting Practice Sheets – Cutting Practice – Which one is different?

Finish the Pattern Sheet – Size Sequencing Sheet -Birthday Strip Puzzle

4-piece Puzzles – Sorting Practice – Counting Practice Cards

Color the Cake -  Letter and Sound Finding Cards

2-Part Vocabulary Cards – Letter Bb Identification

Birthday’s Matching – Letter Bb Sorting Page

 

We also have a Happy Birthday Pre-K Pack Expansion!  Head on over and check it out!

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Enjoy and have a great week!

**Update** There was a small error on page 22 of the pack.  It has been corrected and the download link has been updated!  Thanks!

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