This activity goes along with day seven of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Two simple object lessons were done today to show how Christ takes away our sins. The first was a replica of this one shown by Jocelyn with a white carnation and water dyed red. Although we could see pink tinges in […]
Archives for April 2011
An Easter Countdown: He Instituted the Sacrament
This activity goes along with day six of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. The older ones (6 & up) did this worksheet as a review after our discussion today. I printed off this booklet and had my four-year old tell me the story using his own words while looking at each picture as a […]
An Easter Countdown: Jesus Taught the Truths of Eternity
This activity goes along with day five of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. For our activity today we focused on the portion of the Living Christ that states “and the potential for the sons and daughters of God in the life to come.” I held up an apple seed and asked my littlest ones […]
Simple Pleasures: Hummingbirds
As proof that artists find their canvases anywhere. Brownie took this long piece of cardboard destined for the trash . . . and on Sunday sketched and painted . . . this spring scene . . . of hummingbirds . . . and blossoms. It now hangs above my desk, brightening up this corner of […]
An Easter Countdown: The Miracles of Jesus
This activity goes along with day four of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown. Our children divided up into three teams – an older child paired with a younger one – and each team wrote down all the miracles performed by Jesus that they could remember. We then watched this video and I had them […]
Wordfull Wednesday Topic for April 20th
Easter Eggs in the Country by Victor Gabriel Gilbert Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays (Thanksgiving is the other). I have many fond memories growing up of fun Easter celebrations – both religious and secular. The next Wordfull Wednesday topic for April 20th is to write about an Easter memory you have […]
An Easter Countdown: Jesus Christ was Baptized
For day three of our Living Christ Easter Countdown we talked about John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. We discussed being baptized by immersion, and what it feels like to be clean. It lead to us singing: “When I am Baptized” (Children Songbook pg 103) 1. I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain […]
Sewing Basics: Learning About Your Sewing Machine
Sewing won the home making poll from last week so the next several weeks my home making posts will cover the lessons I teach my beginning sewers (ha! s-oh-er rather than s-ew-er). In our house my children are very spoiled. When they turn eight years old Grandma and Grandpa buy them their own sewing machine! […]
An Easter Countdown: He was the Creator of the Earth
Years ago (at least 8) I was teaching the creation to the Primary children and came up with these two activities. The first is a basic wheel that spins to show what was created on each day. Just cut out each wheel, have your child color the pictures as you discuss the order of the […]
An Easter Countdown: The Birth of Jesus Christ
Our activity for day one was very low-stress. Because we do so many crafts around Christmastime based on the Nativity etc, I decided to do an art study with the painting by Gerard Van Honthorst. We talked about the painting, where your eyes are naturally drawn to because of the use of light, and the […]
The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown
There is a new updated 30 Day Easter Countdown here! Easter is one of the most spiritual beautiful holidays! To celebrate the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ and what it means in our lives is truly to reflect on the whole purpose of why we are here and on HE who makes it possible […]
Minnie Mable Lindsay Crook
Minnie Mable Lindsay and Frederick Crook Mother Minnie was my husband’s great-grandmother. She was of Scottish descent, fiesty when she wanted to be, and quite the cook. For this week’s Sunday Society post I am sharing snippets of Mother Minnie’s life as remembered by her posterity as well as some taken directly from her own […]
Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole
When I lived in Georgia my favorite restaurant to eat at was the Cracker Barrel. I loved looking at all the old-fashioned toys, playing checkers, or doing the peg I.Q. game while waiting for our food to arrive. Mmmmmm….it was good ol’ down home cooking! One of my favorite stand by’s was the hash brown […]
Simple Pleasures: Plums
Delectably deliciousDown to the very last bite.(bought from Costco) What brings you simple pleasure? © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved
Wordfull Wednesday: Of daylilies and irises that come full of surpririses
(Yes, I intentionally misspelled surprises in my post title. It’ll be more clear by the end of the post) (image credit) The arrival of spring is a much anticipated event at our house. It doesn’t matter what the calendar says. When the first flowers begin to grow and then bloom we know spring has finally […]