Please find following a link to a couple of posts that I prepared for Mother’s Day last year.  You will find links to some good Crafts, Colouring Pages and Activities to prepare for and celebrate this special day:

http://www.littletaka.com/category/holiday-themes/mothers-day/

To all Mum’s both in Australia and across the world – Happy Mother’s Day for Sunday!!

Thanks Doug Wolter for sharing these great videos of the Easter Story via Life Together:

1. Jesus on the Cross (Mark 15:22-32)
2. The Death of Jesus (Mark 15:33-39)
3. Jesus is Alive (Mark 16:1-7)

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Hopefully you already found the posts I prepared and published last year leading up to Easter, i.e. Lent, Palm Sunday and Easter Bonnet Ideas.  Remember to come back during the various seasons and use our Category Links to the right to find what you are looking for.

Following are some links to help you find Crafts and Activities for this week and weekend:

Easter Kids Craft Ideas
Easter Eggs, Easter Egg Baskets, Easter Cards, Easter Bunnys, Chick Themed Crafts, Easter Wreath, Easter Gift Boxes and more.

Christian Kids Craft Activities
A database of Christian craft ideas including Easter Tomb, Butterfly Craft and more.

If you are an Australian or New Zealander you might also be interested in these Anzac Day Info, Crafts & Activities archives!

Have a great Easter weekend – and hopefully you find some time to enjoy some Easter Craft and/or Activities with your children.

Parents, teachers and children might like to check out the Weather Wiz Kids website run by meteorologist Crystal Wicker.

Weather Wiz Kids is designed to teach our kids about the weather, how it happens and why – and offers an array of activity sheets, games and experiments.

Encouraging our children to learn more about the weather is particularly relevant to us at the moment.  We are in Queensland.  We are safe and well, but have seen the devastation caused by the extensive flooding in Queensland Australia.

It’s not all about extreme weather though!  It is important for our children to learn about the rain, the wind, the clouds, thunder and lightening – Weather Wiz Kids helps with this.

Thanks to Crystal Wicker for offering an invaluable resource for our children, parents and teachers!

Instructions and template to make this stunning Nativity Pop-up Christmas Card can be found here:

Nativity Pop-up Christmas Card

There are also plenty of other fantastic Bible Story Printables at BibleStoryPrintables.com.

Thanks Valerie!

Found a new resource this evening.  I couldn’t seem to be able to locate our play dough recipe so I went looking on the net and found the Best Ever Play Dough Recipe at the website K-3TeacherResources.com.  Why you are over there you might like to have a look around – as it looks like a really useful site for teachers and parents alike.

On the topic of play dough try and think creative – as it can be used for many things.  Below I have provided a few thoughts and ideas on how you can utilise play dough at home, in your classroom or at events:

1. Play Dough Pictionary
   Google it for more information!
2. Interactive Story Telling
   While telling a story to your children or a class provide them with some play dough and ask them to help you tell the story by making the characters, shapes, objects that are in that story.  For example if you are telling a story about the Christmas Nativity then you might have them make an angel, then a star and then baby Jesus.  This is great for pre-school kids!
3. Educational Games
   Natural Parenting Tips provides some really awesome play dough games that you can get the children to do – games include Spelling, Memory, Tallest Tower, Shapes and Color Creation.

I’m sure that there are probably even more game ideas if you go looking online – feel free to share them as a comment below.

Happy play dough making!

Hello again!  I don’t know if you have heard the great news?

Little TAKAs is on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-TAKA/157568740938040

Come visit.  To receive live updates via Facebook then ‘Like’ our page.  We will also share with you additional thoughts, hints, tips . . . ideas.

Get involved – spread the word – share it with your Facebook friends!

Look forward to seeing you over there.

Rachel

You may enjoy this Gospel Coloring Book recently published by Ministry-to Children.com - Gospel Coloring Book

Acts 2:41-47

I had a bit of trouble locating worksheets specific to Acts 2:41-47 and I decided this week to provide you with the activity sheets in slightly different format.

Leading into this bible verse is Acts 2:1-41.  Previously I have posted links to kids activities relating to this bible verse:

The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

Reading from my Good News Bible (Acts 2:41) it says “Many of them believed his message and were baptised, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.” This bible verse touches on two topics – discipleship and baptism:

Discipleship:  The Calling of the First Disciples

Baptism:  Sermons4Kids – New Beginnings

Acts 2:42 speaks about the apostles “They spent their time in learning from the apostles, taking part in the fellowship, and sharing in the fellowship meals and the prayers.”

The Twelve Disciples

Then Acts 2:43-47 goes on to discusses the life among believers and how they care for one another . . . which you could relate back to the Vine and the Branches story.  Alternatively there is a good sermon provided by Sermons4Kids titled Love One Another:

The Vine and the Branches

Sermons4Kids – Love One Another

Looking at this weeks homiliesbyemail.com children’s lectionary sheets they also seem to fall within this theme.  Luke 17:5-6 is about faith and Luke 17:7-10 is about a servant’s duty:

Children’s Activity Sheets – Sunday, 3 October 2010

Have an awesome week!  For those who have been hanging out for a newsletter the first one should arrive in your inbox toward the end of the week.

Blessings,
Rachel

In Australia and New Zealand Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September.

Following are links to some good Father’s Day craft websites – stuff the kids can make for dad.  Also I found some really good Father’s Day themed worksheets:

DLTK’s Father’s Day Ideas for Kids

Father’s Day Cards, Crafts, Games, Puzzles, Certificates, Recipes and much more.  I have always found that DLTK has great ideas in the way of games, teaching resources and activities.

Kaboose Father’s Day Crafts
Printable Father’s Day Card, Crafts, I Love You Daddy Poem, Dad & Me Coffee Mug, Smiley Daddy & Me Magnet and plenty, plenty more.  Kaboose has great art and craft ideas.

Home-Made Father’s Day Cards at Family Crafts
These Cards are really cool.  The ones I liked in particular were the Trophy Card, the Boat Card, the Tie Card and the Tools Card.

Folded-Shirt Card at Martha Stewart
Wow these are cute!  You will find on this webpage the instructions to make these gorgeous folded paper shirt cards.

Gifts Kids Can Make for Dad, Grandpa or a Favorite Uncle at MakingFriends.com
I particularly like the little treasure chest made out of pop sticks on this page and the remote control holder.

Father’s Day Activities at the Activity Village
I particular like the ‘Greatet Dad’ Diploma and if you go check out the Father’s Day Printables and Father’s Day Puzzles and Mazes section you will find some really awesome activities.

Father’s Day Crafts at FamilyCorner.com
Some good crafts, in particular I liked the sports / footy crafts on this page.