A Happy New Year 2009

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From my family to all of yours, a very happy and healthy 2009!

Sammie

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100 Free Things To Do With Your Grandkids

Here is a free printable guide that you can download, which contains many wonderful things that grandparents can do with their grandchildren (of course parents can use the guide with their children also).

The guide contains thirty seven pages that you can print out on your computer printer. Some of the fun things listed are:

craft-stick boxes, shadow puppets, make a comic book, sock puppets, create a family newspaper, make your own colored clay and many more.

Information from Grandparents.com: "Play, learn, and create things together!

These days free is a wonderful word. That's why we've created a new guide to 100 Free Things to Do With Your Grandkids.

At Grandparents.com, we're always looking for ways to help you get more smiles, more fun, and more memories from the time you spend with your grandchildren."

Visit the Grandparents.com website and click the "Download Now" button to get you free "100 Free Things To Do With Your Grandkids" printable guide.

I would like to thank Tamara who sent in an e-mail informing me of this wonderful guide and would like to say hello to her three grandchildren, Wayne, Ciara and Corey.

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How to Celebrate New Year's Eve With Your Children

Celebrating New Year's Eve with children can involve setting up a craft table to keep them occupied, offering them noise makers and giving them sparkling grape juice to toast with the adults. Make New Year's Eve a memorable holiday for the kids with ideas from an event coordinator in this free video on holiday parties.



You can make the video full screen by clicking the image that looks like a computer screen at the bottom right hand side of the video. You tube also ads Google ads to the video which you can close out if you like.

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Merry Christmas 2008

A Merry Christmas from all of us here at Fun 4 The Children. Hope all the kiddies received everything they wanted. Enjoy your day!

Christmas Bells Coloring Pages

A traditional part of the holiday season are the Christmas Bells. The bells produce a happy sound and are enjoyed in “ringing out the old and ringing in the new” each season.

Christmas bells are remembered in classic holiday songs such as “Christmas Bells are Ringing”, “Silver Bells”, and “Jingle Bells”.

Here is a list of beautiful Christmas Bell coloring pages for you to decorate any way you can imagine. Color them with crayons, markers, colored pencils or paints. Cut them out and hang them on your Christmas tree or anywhere around your home!

Christmas Bells 1

Christmas Bells 2

Christmas Bells 3

Christmas Bells 4

Christmas Bells 5

Christmas Bells 6

Christmas Bells 7

Christmas Bells 8

Christmas Bells 9

Christmas Bells 10

Christmas Bells 11

Christmas Bell with presents

Christmas Bell with mittens

Christmas Bells with mouse

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Hanukkah Menorah Craft

A fun and easy menorah for you to make with your children. Your children will be able to light this menorah without candles, lighters or matches.

Parents.tv shows you a fun way to get in the Hanukkah spirit by making a menorah.



Happy Hanukkah!

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How to Make a Snow Globe

Building a snow globe is a fun indoor project for a cold winter day. This one is very easy to create and you can use any kind of ornament or figurine for your snow globe, just make sure it is waterproof.



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Free Enchanted Holiday Coloring Book

This free holiday coloring books has images for all different holidays.

Inside this twelve page book, you will find coloring pages for Christmas, New Years Eve, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Fourth of July, Easter, St Patrick's Day, and Valentine's Day.

The Enchanted Holiday Coloring Book is in PDF format and can be printed out on your computer printer.

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Put Yourself In A Snowglobe 2008

Here's another cute holiday widget to share some laughs. With this one, you get to upload photos of you children or the whole family if you choose and then view the performance in a snowglobe.

First you will upload whatever photos you would like to appear and then adjust the photos and pick outfits for them.

From there you get to choose between nine different scenes. When you finished choosing your scene, your snowglobe is finished.

After your snowglobe is finished you can get a closeup look or even shake you globe by clicking the images to the top, right hand side of your snowglobe.

You also have an option of embedding your globe in your website or blog if you have one and/or sending your snowglobe to family and friends.

Below you will see our snowglobe of Santa and Mrs Claus.

To create your snowglobe click on the "make your own" link beneath our snowglobe below or click: Put Yourself In A Snowglobe

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Santa's Personalized Photo Message 2008

Put your children's name on Santa's nice list and receive a personalized video message from Santa.

This one is very easy to create and your children will get a big thrill when seeing themselves on the Santa video.

Visit Santa's Personalized Photo Message on the family.com website. You will have to register or log in.

Next you will enter your child's name and upload a photo of them. After your photo uploads you will have the opportunity to customize the image.

Click generate video and your done!

They will list a link that you can copy and paste to add to a website or blog if you publish one and you can also send it in an e-mail to family and loved ones.

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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We wish you a Merry Christmas - Thomas the Train Music Video

We wish you a Merry Christmas with video of Thomas the Train and friends.

Click the image on the right bottom side of the video, that looks like a television or computer screen, to make the video full screen.



Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Xmas Coloring Book

The Trier Christmas Coloring Book for Children. This free Christmas coloring book is seven pages long and ready for you to print out on your computer printer.

Christmas coloring pages include: Santa Claus, Christmas bell, reindeer, Christmas bear and images from Trier.

Xmas Coloring Book

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Secret Santa Mail

Bring a little magic to this Christmas with Secret Santa Mail. Send your child a personalized package from Santa. Just imagine the excitement on their face when they open their package, personally addressed to them. This unique gift will make this the most memorable Christmas of all. The package includes:

* Personalized Santa Letter, printed on high quality paper
* Make-a-Snowman sticker set
* Stuffed plush Santa Bear
* Season's Greetings Belgian milk chocolate bar
* Arrives packaged in a festive red tube, personally addressed to your child
* FREE shipping within the USA

Recently, I have had the pleasure of speaking with Courtney, a stay at home mother of two young daughters and owner of Secret Santa Letter. Did I mention she was also an avid reader of Fun 4 The Children.

Courtney takes great pride and care in the packages she offers on Secret Santa Mail.

Bring a little magic to Christmas this year with a personalized letter from Santa.



Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Free Dear Santa Photostamp

Parents, you can request a free Dear Santa photostamp for your child's letter to Santa.

Upload a photo of your child from your computer that you want placed on your stamp and then register. You will be able to customize your PhotoStamp, zooming in or out, rotating and choosing a color.

When your finished customizing your PhotoStamp you will have to register or sign in to Stamps.com.

You will be required to enter your credit card information as it is required for verification purposes.

Finish the checkout and your free Dear Santa PhotoStamp will be sent to your home.

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Christmas Angel Coloring Pages

"Christmas angels are perhaps the most popular form of angels that are used in our celebrations. They were quite instrumental in birth of Jesus Christ and hence, play an important role in Christmas celebration and festivities. Angels were the ones that brought us the news of the birth of the Christ child. Gabriel, the heavenly Christmas angel brought the divine news to Mary and revealed that she was chosen to bear God's son."

Print out these beautiful angels and use your imagination when coloring and decorating. Use crayons, markers, stickers, glitter glue or anything else to decorate your pages.

We have printed out all the pages listed, and all are printer friendly and computer safe. Make sure you visit the websites that list these Christmas coloring pages for more wonderful coloring pages and activities.



Christmas Angel #1

Christmas Angel #2

Christmas Angel #3

Christmas Angel #4

Christmas Angel #5

Christmas Angel #6

Christmas Angel #7

Christmas Angel #8

Christmas Angels

Christmas Tree Angel

Angel Cloud Ornament

Christmas Angel with Lily

Christmas Angel Boy

Christmas Angel Singing Carols

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Free Photo Globe Holiday Greeting 2008

Parents, this one is more for us than the kids, but your children will get a laugh at seeing their photo in the snow globe.

You can send free photo snow globe holiday greetings to loved ones and friends by e-mail.

Follow the directions below to create and send your free Photo Globe Holiday Greeting:

1. Visit the Disney PhotoPass website and register (the link is at the top right hand corner of their website where it states "Don't have an account? Get started!". If you already have an account, just sign in.

2. After registration, return to the DisneyPass homepage at above link and sign in.

3. In the middle of the DisneyPass website your will see "Add your Photos", click link to upload your photos.

4. When your finished uploading your photos, click the "Send a Free Photo Globe Holiday Greeting" image on the bottom right hand corner of the DisneyPass website.

5. Select your photo globe design, choose the photo you want to use and position your photo with the tools they provide. Click on the "Build It" button and your Photo Globe Holiday Greeting is created.

After your globe is created, they provide a web link that you can copy and paste into your e-mail to send to your friends and family.

You can create as many Photo Globe Holiday Greeting as you would like. The only thing you can't do (I tried everything with no luck) is save the image to your computer or print it out.

I am going to use this with my Christmas morning photos to send to our family loved ones who can't be with us for the holidays.

Happy Holidays!

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Printable Christmas Coloring Book

This free PDF format, printable Christmas coloring book (designed by fun-with-pictures.com) contains twelve different coloring sheets for the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Inside your children will delighted with many different Christmas images to color, including:

Santa Claus, Christmas trees, candy canes, elves, snowmen and more.

Get out the crayons, markers, colored pencils and whatever else you may want to use to decorate your pages (my kids like to use stickers). Download your free Printable Christmas Coloring Book and show your Christmas spirit in color.

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Free personalized Santa Video 2008

UPDATE: The link for the Free personalized Santa Video 2008 has expired. Please make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

Here your chance to make you child a star in a free Santa video. Just upload a photo of your child (head shots work the best), do a little editing and you Santa video is ready.

They have an option to send the video in an e-mail to loved ones and then another option to get free holiday music. You can decline either one of these options by clicking the "No Thanks" link located toward the top, right hand side of their website.

After you video is created and you watch it, they also have options again to send the video to family and friends in an e-mail, bookmark the page to watch anytime or a link to embed the video into a website.

Free personalized Santa Video

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Free Letters from Santa

I have a couple of new websites for you to get free letters from Santa Claus.

The first one is from the Best Santa's Letter website. I would like to give a big thank you to Michael Williams who posted a comment to our original Free Santa Letters post, letting me know about this service. It's greatly appreciated Michael!

Best Santa's Letter - this website has a bunch of different letter templates to choose from. They also have an option to create a free envelope for your Santa letter, including images for the envelope, a personal message from Santa, along with a Santa and postal stamp. Make sure you explore their website as they have some other fun stuff listed.

Santa Claus Museum - very easy form to fill in your children's information to create your Santa Letter. Three templates available.

The Holiday Spot - there are four different letter templates that you can print out. If you use a background image with their letters, make sure you are using Internet Explorer for a better print.

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Christmas Coloring Book

The Christmas coloring PDF ebook contains 75 Christmas coloring pages that's sure to keep your children entertained throughout the Christmas Season (or if they are like my children, a few hours or so).

You can download the free Christmas coloring book and then print out the whole book or various pages to give to the children.

Some of the images you can find in the Christmas coloring book: Christmas trees and wreaths, Santa Claus, bells, Christmas stockings, elves, nativity scenes and many more.





You can download your free Christmas coloring book by visiting The Caroler website:

Download Christmas Coloring Book

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Happy Thanksgiving 2008

Wishing all the readers of Fun 4 The Children a very Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your time spent with family and friends!

May sure you visit our other fun Thanksgiving Pages!

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Elf Yourself 2008

Turn your children or your whole family into dancing elves! Back for 2008 is the very funny Elf Yourself. We had a great time with this last year and this year they have added a couple extra features.

Upload a photo of your child (or anyone you would like) to see them get transform into a dancing elf, complete with music and an optional message.

This year you get to upload up to five photos to have all your family members dance together or you can do each child one at a time. Just a little tip for you, it's easier to use photos with closeups of the head and face. After you upload your photo(s) you will get to adjust them and rotate them.

After you get your photos loaded you will then get to choose a dance. There are four dance choices for you to choose from (Disco, Country, Classic, and the Charleston).

That's it your ready to watch your video. You might want to register, this way it saves your videos and lets you e-mail them to friends and loved ones. You can also embed your videos into any websites you may own.

This year they are also offering products for you to purchase from your videos and an option to download your videos (small fee).

Guaranteed to have your children laughing.

Have fun!

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Fill in the Blanks Thanksgiving Story

Here's a wild and wacky Thanksgiving story that you children create by filling in the blanks. All they have to do is type in some keys words in the story and then click the "read" button to read about the family feast.

Your children will get a laugh out of the different stories they can create. You can also print the stories out and the children can read them out loud to family and friends on Thanksgiving Day.

I want to give a big thank you to Monica for sending us an e-mail sharing the fill in the blanks Thanksgiving story.

May sure you visit our other fun Thanksgiving Pages!

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Thanksgiving Fun Activity

This is a wonderful game for the adults and the children on Thanksgiving. Everyone will write what they are thankful for on the Bing Note cards you can print out on your computer printer.

The cards will then be collected and put in a bowl, then everyone will get to pick one out and read it aloud. You then guess who wrote it.

A fun way to teach children what it means to be thankful!

"Let’s bring in the Thanksgiving spirit by having the kids share with everyone why they are thankful in a little game. The Bing Note Team has developed an activity called Thanksgiving Fun! This activity will keep everyone guessing, while at the same time, teach kids (and hey, even the adults can learn a lesson or 2) about what it means to be thankful. And of course, everyone will have loads of fun!"

Thanksgiving Fun Activity

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Macy's Letter to Santa

Here's a great way to give to charity while also letting your kids have some fun writing to Santa.

Get your crayons, pencil or pen. Write your letter and starting November 9th, bring it to Macy’s stamped and addressed to Santa At The North Pole. Make sure you drop it into their special Santa letterbox.

They will count them up, and for each letter received, they will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® up to $1,000,000. They will then bring them to the
Post Office for mailing to Santa.

Print out the Macy's Letter to Santa and help Macy's collect a million reasons to believe.

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Thanksgiving Pinecone Turkey Craft

I stumbled across another fun turkey craft project for your children, this one from Kids Craft magazine.

This one is very easy to do and only requires a few materials to complete the project. You can also change materials (besides the pinecone) and let your kids use further creativity to complete their pinecone turkeys.

Visit the Kids Craft Magazine website to print out your instructions for the Thanksgiving Pinecone Turkey Craft.

May sure you visit our other fun Thanksgiving Pages!

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Thanksgiving Paper Turkey Model

Parent, your going to have to help the kids with this one. You can use colored paper for these or the kids can color them.

We have decided we are going to put them on the plates for Thanksgiving, marking the seating locations. We are also going to paste photos of our Thanksgiving guest over the turkeys face so everyone knows where they sit.

There are many other things you and your children can do with these, so use your imagination and get creative.

Thanksgiving Paper Turkey Model

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Countdown to Thanksgiving Calendar

A combination of coloring and crafts combined to make this Countdown to Thanksgiving calendar.

Your children will get to pluck off the turkey's feathers as a countdown to the Thanksgiving holiday.

You can make the Countdown to Thanksgiving Calendar bigger by clicking on the "Fullscreen" link and/or print it out to your computer. If you would like to download the Countdown to Thanksgiving Calendar, you have to log in using a Facebbok account or registering at Scribd (it's free).



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Thanksgiving Apron Craft

A neat idea that you can cherish for years to come. This video shows you a great starting point to make your own Thanksgiving apron.

The children's hand prints is a wonderful idea, then your kids can use there imaginations to add other objects to the apron. Just make sure you get the date on there so down the road, when you look back you know what year it was created.

Have fun with this one and get creative!

May sure you visit our other fun Thanksgiving Pages!



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Halloween Game Ideas

Having a Halloween party for the children? Here's some more ideas for some fun Halloween games.


12 Halloween Game Ideas

To see a larger view of this document click the full screen button (top right side). If you would like to print out this document, click on the image of the printer (top right, next to the full screen button).

Do you play other Halloween games that are not listed here? Let us know by sending us an e-mail or adding a comment.

Make sure you visit all of our other fun Halloween pages!

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Pumpkin Stencil Maker

If your children still haven't found any stencils they like from the ones we have posted here on Fun 4 The Children, let them design and print their own jack-o'-lantern patterns with the Pumpkin Stencil Maker.

The stencil maker provides thousands of different possible creations and will even create random ones for you and the kids. The pumpkin stencil maker is very easy to use, giving you choices of pumpkin sizes, eyes, nose and mouth. Your kids will have no problem finding a stencil they will really enjoy.

Have fun!

Make sure you visit all of our other fun Halloween pages!

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Halloween Spooktacular

Hello everyone. I wanted to give all a heads up on a Halloween event taking place Saturday October 25, 2008 2-4 PM.

Join your local Borders or Waldenbooks stores for the Halloween Spooktacular.

"You're invited to a ghoulishly good time at your local Borders and Waldenbooks store. Dress up the family in Halloween costumes and enter our super-cool costume contest. Gather around for creepy, crawly tales during storytimes. Then the frights and fun continue with games, activities, and more. Plus, kids get a FREE cookie with any large beverage purchase at our Seattle's Best Coffee cafe."

Store locator

As with all events that I post here on Fun 4 The Children, I would just make sure and call your local store just to make sure.

Have fun!

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Halloween Crafts - Monster bags, Ghostly hands, and a Hanging witch

This video shows you how to make some neat Halloween crafts with your children.

The crafts include easy to make monster bags, yummy ghostly hands that you can hand out to the trick-or-treaters, and a large which that you can hang on your front door.

Judy Uson, the Kitchen Artist, along with her daughter shows you in easy steps how to create these fun Halloween crafts.



To see the video in full screen mode, click the image that looks like a screen below the video.

Make sure you visit all of our other fun Halloween pages!

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Free Hannah Montana "The Best of Both Worlds" MP3 Download

For those of you with Hannah Montana fans here's a chance for you to get a free download of Hannah's "best of Both Worlds" song.

I'm not sure how long this one will last so you had better hurry.

Hannah Montana "Best of Both Worlds" MP3 Download

FYI: You do have to leave your name and e-mail for this one (might want to use another e-mail address besides your main one. I believe this is available worldwide.

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Halloween Coloring Pages - Bats

Here's a few links for your children to go batty with. Print out, color, add more Halloween drawings to each page. The choice is yours. All links listed below are to outside websites and have been printed out by Fun 4 The Children with no problems as of this post.

Make sure you visit these websites for further, wonderful coloring pages and if a link doesn't work, please let us know. Thank you!

Halloween Bat #1

Halloween Bat #2

Halloween Bat - BOO! with moon

Halloween Bat - flying in front of moon #1

Halloween Bat - flying in front of moon #2

Halloween Bat - dot-to-dot

Halloween Bats - two smiling bats

Halloween Bat Bunny

Upside Down Bats

Vampire Bat

Make sure you visit all of our other fun Halloween pages!

If the above links are not working or are expired, please do us a favor and let us know by clicking: Contact US. We may also be able to help you get some of the free coloring books, pages and E-books that may have expired.

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Halloween Activities and Recipes

A fun Halloween book containing Halloween stories that you can personalize, gross recipes for your children's Halloween parties and some cute Halloween games to play.

I tried to get this book as large as possible to make reading it easy. To see a bigger version:

Click on the image that looks like a television screen in top right hand corner of the Scribd toolbar. It will go to a full screen of the book and if you need to make it larger from there, just press the + button.

You can also click on the word "Scribd" and you will be taken to a larger version.

To print this book out on your computer click the "iPaper" link on the Scribd toolbar (located above book).

Halloween Activities and Recipes - Upload a Document to Scribd

Note: You can print the St Patrick's Day Puzzles and Mazes for Free. To download you have to buy a subscription or upload a document to Scibd.

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Halloween Coloring Pages - Cats

How about some cat coloring pages for your Halloween coloring treats. Now... does the Halloween cat have to be black? That's totally up to you, but I believe they can be any color you like. Enjoy!!

Halloween Cat - connect the dots

Halloween Cat - in a women's costume

Halloween Cat - with two pumpkins

Halloween Cat - with moon and bats (4)

Halloween Cat - with pumpkin #1

Halloween Cat - with pumpkin #2

Halloween Cat - with pumpkin #3

Halloween Cat - with pumpkin #4

Halloween Cat - moon and pumpkin

Capped Halloween Cat - with pumpkins

Halloween Cat - pumpkin and bat

Halloween Cat - Happy Halloween with bats #1

Halloween Cat - Happy Halloween with bats #2

Halloween Mean Cat - with pumpkin

Halloween Cat - flying on broom with pumpkin

If any of the above links are not working or are expired, please do us a favor and let us know by clicking: Contact US. We may also be able to help you get some of the free coloring books, pages and E-books that may have expired.

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Pumpkin Stencils and Patterns

We are setting out for our pumpkin picking this weekend. The children are all planning who is going to do what to their pumpkins (painting, stickers, stencils, etc).

I found sound really great websites that offer free stencils to use on your pumpkins. Some of these websites I used last year and some are new to me. There is a big selection of stencils for you to choose from.

Hershey's Pumpkin Stencils - Pumpkin stencils listed in three difficulty ranges: Easy, Intermediate and Hard.

Pumpkin Masters - free pumpkin carving patterns. There are only four patterns listed but they are good ones.

Pumpkin Lady - one of my favorite website for free pumpkin carving patterns. There's a huge selection of pumpkin carving patterns to choose from going all the way back to 2004. They also have optional paid pattern books (for free patterns scroll approximately 1/4 of the way down their website).

On the Pumpkin Lady website you can also find carving tips and instructions
with images, printable carving instructions and you can learn how to create your own patterns. An A+ website!

Spook Master - they have a handful of free online pumpkin carving patterns to choose from and starting October 27 Through October 31 they offer a new freebie everyday (just visit their website daily between those dates). You can also find instructions on carving and painting Halloween pumpkins.

WWF Pumpkin Carving Stencils - free World Wildlife Fund templates. Along with the stencils you will find instructions and a story about that particular world wildlife stencil.

Pumpkin Carving 101 - there are no stencils on this page but I have added it because it is full off wonderful Halloween Pumpkin Carving information. From choosing your pumpkins, pumpkin carving tools, lighting your pumpkins, traditional carving and so much more. A wonderful, informative website for Halloween pumpkin carving information.

If anyone wants to recommend a great pumpkin stencil/pattern carving site, please don't hesitate to do so with a comment or e-mail. If we have anyone that creates stencils or patterns and would like to show them on Fun 4 The Children just send us an e-mail. Last but not least, if you would like to share your pumpkin carving with the readers of this blog, snap a photo and send it to us in an e-mail.

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Free Helping Your Child Brochure Series

""The Helping Your Child brochure series aims to provide parents with the tools and information necessary to help their children succeed in school and life.

These brochures feature practical lessons and activities to help their school aged and preschool children master reading, math and science; understand the value of homework; and, develop the skills and values necessary to achieve and grow."

Here are the titles available:

Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
Helping Your Child Become A Reader
Helping Your Child Learn Science
Helping Your Child With Homework
Helping Your Preschool Child
Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
Helping Your Child Succeed in School

The ED Pubs website provides these brochures at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education.

I would like to thank my s-i-l, Fay and Colleen for letting me know about these free brochures. A little off the "fun" topic but I will post information I believe will be a benefit for our parents from time to time.

To request your free brochure series visit: Helping Your Child Brochure Series (click the underlined "Helping Your Child brochure series" link.

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Halloween Coloring Pages - Skeletons

October is just around the corner, and with it comes the fun and spooky Halloween! Time to choose your customs, organize your parties, and make your decorations. It's also time to start creating your 2008 Halloween coloring book.

We have other Halloween coloring images listed on Fun 4 The Children (search for them under coloring pages category and/or search box). We will also list new Halloween coloring pages for 2008.

Listed are a bunch of skinny bone coloring pages to get you going.

Skeleton #1

Skeleton Board

Skeleton - trees, owl and full moon.

Skeleton - with vampire skeleton. Picture is also a puzzle. Very Cool!

Skeleton - with owl

Skeleton - with spider and cat

Make sure you visit all of our other fun Halloween pages!

If any of the above links are not working or are expired, please do us a favor and let us know by clicking: Contact US. We may also be able to help you get some of the free coloring books, pages and E-books that may have expired.

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2008 Christmas Dog Coloring Contest

Recently, I received a wonderful e-mail from Jennie of Patriot Lab Rescue, who wanted to know if she could use one of my Christmas dog coloring pages for their 2008 Christmas Dog Coloring Contest.

The Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue, is a 501c3 all volunteer non-profit foster home based rescue that is setting up this contest as a Christmas fundraiser.

The 2008 Christmas Dog Coloring Contest is geared toward children, with them coloring in our Christmas dog coloring page and then sending it in to be voted on by the public. The dog coloring page can be downloaded from the Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue website.

Winners will receive a prize (to be named) and be featured on their website during the holidays.

To help the Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue, there is a $1 donation fee per coloring page, and a $1 donation fee for the public to vote on the pages that are enter.

It's only $1 dollar to enter the contest and then $1 more if you want to vote on the coloring pages, with the money going to help out with the wonderful job the Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue does.

To enter and learn more about this contest, please visit the Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue website or the Graceful Dogs blog.

I'd like to thank Jennie and all the volunteers at the Patriot Lab & All Breed Rescue for asking to use one of my coloring pages for their Christmas fundraiser and for all the love and unselfish hard work they put in at the rescue.

Make sure you visit all of our other Christmas and Hanukkah Pages!

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Precious Girls Club

I recently received an e-mail from MomSelect, with an opportunity to review the Precious Girls Club and a new book called "A Little Bit of Faith" by Cindy Kenney. I also have the opportunity to offer four readers of Fun 4 The Children a chance to receive a copy of "A Little Bit of Faith" and a scratch-off card for a FREE premium "Rainbow Membership" trial on PreciousGirlsClub.com.

The Precious Girls Club is based on an all-new book series for girls that revolves around the life of Katie Bennett and a diverse group of her friends. Their world is brought to life through books, and through a virtual world where young girls can learn and play in a safe, wholesome environment based on the values embraced by Precious Moments®.

After receiving the book, I sat down and spent a couple of hours reading it with my daughter Samantha. She especially liked the way the main character, Katie Bennett, moves to a new school, facing the task of making new friends and how she goes about it. After finishing the book, which she loved, she couldn't wait to tell her friends about it.



Here's how author Cindy Kenney describes "A Little Bit of Faith" on her website: "The first book in a new series for girls 6 to 11 that celebrates the special gifts that make each girl precious in God's sight. Girls will have an opportunity to learn ways that God made them special and how they can use their special abilities to make a positive difference in the world!"

Over at the Precious Girls Club website, girls can interact with the book series. You can create your own characters, explore, socialize, play games, create your own Precious Girls Club and so much more. Very cute and fun for both moms and their daughters.

As I stated earlier in this post, I have the opportunity to give away four copies of the the book, "A Little Bit of Faith" and a scratch-off card for a FREE premium "Rainbow Membership" trial at the Precious Girls Club. The first four people to e-mail me stating they would like to receive the book and scratch off card will win. Make sure you leave your name and address.

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Dusty The Asthma Goldfish and His Asthma Triggers Funbook

The EPA has a free download for an asthma funbook. The Dusty The Asthma Goldfish and His Asthma Triggers Funbook is an educational tool to help us parents and children learn more about asthma triggers.

The Dusty The Asthma Goldfish and His Asthma Triggers Funbook contains eight pages that you can download (PDF fornat) and print out on your computer printer. Pages include: coloring, word search, maze, connect the dots and search.

For parents: I also going to include the link to the asthma page of the EPA website, as they have many other free publications and resources you can download or send for the hard copy to help children with asthma.

EPA asthma publications and resources

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How to Create a Children’s Sticker Storybook

I stumbled across a fun, creative idea, not to mention a big help to stickers being placed where they shouldn't be.

The Grandparent Blog, which is published by Grandpa Shayne Packer (along with Grandma Tanda), posted an adorable idea of making children's storybooks with stickers. They provide a wonderful step-by-step video tutorial, along with a sample project on on creating handmade sticker story books for you kids and grandkids.

I love the idea of creating the stories and then having the children interact by placing the stickers. As I sit here typing and looking at a bunch of stickers that my little man has stuck up and down his leg, the story lines are flowing (maybe that's why it's taking me over an hour so far to finish this post).

Leaving extra pages in the book is also a great idea to let your kids expand the story with their own words and ideas.

I want thank Shayne and Tanda Packer for the wonderful idea. To read the full post on the children's sticker storybook visit "How to write a children’s storybook with stickers".

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Marine Alphabet Coloring Book

We found this one today while printing alphabet coloring sheets. From the Fish and Wildlife Institute comes a free download for a Marine Alphabet coloring book.

The coloring book features thirty four pages, with each page featuring a different letter of the alphabet. Your kids can have fun coloring in the pictures as they learn about the marine environment.

The Marine Alphabet coloring book is downloaded in PDF format and you can print out individual pages or the whole book.

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Free Book - Samantha and Her Silly-icious Sandwiches by Tina Powell

Boar's Head is offering a free copy of the book, "Samantha's Silly-icious Sandwiches" by Tina Powell, when you build a Silly-icious Sandwich.

It's very easy, as all you have to do is drop the sandwich ingredients in between the bread and select "Build Sandwich" (all done on their website). You will then have the opportunity to order a free copy of Samantha and Her Silly-icious Sandwiches.



To get your free book, click http://www.brown-bagging.com and then click on the "Build a Silly-icious Sandwich and receive a free book from Boar's Head (located in the right hand side of their website). On the following page (again on the right hand side of their website) you will see "Click here to build a Silly-icious Sandwich and receive a free book from Boar's Head".

Wait for the page to load and click "Play". Make your sandwich, click build sandwich and you will be taken to the form to request your free copy(s) of Samantha and Her Silly-icious Sandwiches.

Here is a direct link to the request form if you have any problems with the above link:

Free Book - Samantha and Her Silly-icious Sandwiches by Tina Powell

For Your Information - There is a limit of 2 books per household and it's only for US residents only. I would also advise you to hurry with this one, for I am sure they will go fast!

While your at the brown-bagging.com website, make sure you click on the "Download Activities and Interactive Games" link (you can also find this on the right hand side of their website). You will find 11 fun-filled printable activities with Samantha and her Silly-icious Sandwiches!

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