4 Fun Cinco de Mayo Activities (Free Printables!)

Last night I was trying to decide what I wanted to do for Cino de Mayo besides eating delicious food.  My kids both have fun parties at school today and I knew they would love it if we did something.  These ideas came to me as I was feeding my little one in the middle of the night so I apologize for the last minute post.

Here's what's included:

Cupcake toppers!  There's a sheet of 12.

Adorable coloring pages

Roll a maraca game.  Roll a dice and whatever number you land on you get to colo that spot.  The first person to color in each number wins.  (when you roll a 2 color in all of the circle)

A cute themed Go Fish game.  Print 4 copies of the card (or 2 if you have younger kids or want to use it as a match game.  I did include a sheet that you can print on the back of your cards to make them extra cute.  I decided to skip that step to save some ink.  Cardstock and laminating would be a good idea :)  There are a few different kids and objects so I aded numbers to make it easier to ask for a card.  You'd say something like "do you have sombrero number 2?"

 Download here

Amazing graphics from

Chirp Graphics,  Prettygrafik, revidevi, Instruct and Inspire, and fonts from Hello Literacy

Star Wars Popcorn Boxes

Friday is Star Wars day!  These adorable popcorn boxes add a little something special to your family movie night.

Download, print (on cardstock), cut, fold, and tape.

Fill with popcorn or your favorite treat and you are ready to go.

There are 8 different characters to choose from including some old and new favorites.

If you want to make a whole night of it check out this post for a fun themed Star Wars dinner, bingo, and match game.

Have fun and May the "Fourth" be with you!

Adorable clip art from Dorky Doodles and Font from Hello Fonts

24 Fun Holidays to Celebrate with your Kids in May

I think I say this all the time but the months seriously fly by.  I can't believe its almost May!  For us that means school projects and activities, recitals, and yard work.  With a crazy schedule its easy to get in the mind set of just getting through the day.  That is one of the biggest reasons I love these calendars.  It helps me get out of that mind set and do something fun with my family.  There are so many fun holidays in May I kind of want to celebrate all of them! 

Download a copy of the calendar, print, and display.  You do not need to celebrate all of them (we probably won't) just pick and choose what works for you and your family.

Download your copy here

I'll be posting ideas as I finalize my plans and also as we celebrate some of these holidays.  My hope is that this will be something fun for your family and a way to create some special memories.  I'd love to hear your ideas and see pictures of your celebrations!

Holiday's came from here, here, and here. 

Amazing graphics from

 The Learning Attic, Creative Clips, Graphics4kids, Prettygrafik,  Dorky Doodles, my cute graphics, Cathy's Store,Isma Clips, revidevi, Teacher Laura, Laine Sutherland - A Little Peace of Africa,   P4 Clips Trioriginals, and fonts from Hello Literacy

Precious Gifts from God FHE

We are working our way through April's General Conference talks for Family Home Evening.  This past week we picked President M. Russell Ballard's Talk "Precious Gifts from God." It has so much counsel that I didn't want to leave anything out.  (Find the talk here.)  This week for our lesson we went on a treasure hunt to learn more about some of the precious gifts our Heavenly Father has given us.

Going with a gift theme I made 8 presents, each with a gift that was mentioned in the talk. I did include a black and white set if you want to save on ink and color yourself.

 I also picked a quote from each topic and the are sized to fit behind the coordinating gift box.

Download the FHE pack below.  Cut around each gift and quote.  You'll need to match the quote with the coordinating present and tape it to the back.

They will look like this.

Hide the gifts around the room and let your kids find them.  We did one at a time and read the gift and the quote. 

This page is also included in the download.  I taped mine to a cookie sheet and we used magnets to attach the gifts to it.  You can also tape or glue them to make it more permanent. 

Continue until all the gifts are found.  Ask what are some other gifts from our Heavenly Father.

 

I always like to create a printable that we leave up all week as a reminder of our lesson.  This one is included in the download.

or you can find two other options here

Download you FHE Packet here

You can find our other General Conference Family Home Evening here.

Superhero Day & Free Popcorn box Printables

Tomorrow is National Superhero Day.  Its one of those fun holidays I didn't know existed (you can find our fun holiday calendars here.)  Here are some fun ideas that would be perfect to celebrate this awesome holiday.  Don't forget to grab your FREE popcorn box templates at the bottom of this post.

Superhero Training Day-Fun day of crafts and activities

 

Dress up as your favorite hero

Have a photo shoot and use it to create a sweet Father's Day Gift.

It says "Some people don't believe in superheros, but they haven't met our dad."  You can create this using Picmonkey with the collage option.

Try out these superhero pita snacks.

Make an Easy Superhero cape 

Finish up with some superhero movies of course!  Add some awesome popcorn boxes and Hulk Punch (aka green koolaid)

I have four options for you.  Download the templates and print on cardstock.  

Here's a quick how to

Fill with popcorn or your favorite treat.

Download the popcorn boxes here

 I've noticed I don't need to go all out for my kids to be excited and have fun.  Honestly they would be happy just watching a movie but I love the look of  excitement and joy when I add a little something extra.  

Roll a story...Story Dice.

Today is Tell a Story Day, how fun is that! (find more fun holidays here)  This little activity was a hit with my 4 year old.  Roll the dice to discover your main character and setting,  the rest of the story is up to you.  If you happen to have a singer like I do make up a song instead.

There are two different character dice.  You only need one but it could be fun to roll both. 

One has animals, a monster, unicorn, and a robot.  The other has people like an astronaut, farmer, and princess.

You could have a princess on an island, a robot in space, or a superhero on a farm.  There are so many possibilities and such a fun way to stretch their imagination.  Use these for preschool, a bed time story, or take them in the car.  

To make your story dice download the pdf below.  Print on cardstock. Cut along the solid lines and fold along the dotted lines.  Glue or tape together.  I use tape because its easy :)

I also included writing paper in 3 fun colors to record your fun story.  Each color has 2 styles: 1 with a picture box (like below) and one with just writing lines.

Download your pack here.

Free General Conference Printables (quotes from President M. Russell Ballard)

These quotes come from President M. Russell Ballard's Talk "Precious Gifts from God."  (Find the talk here.)  Frame them, share them with a friend, stick them in your scriptures or on your mirror, there are so many possibilities. 

To Print:

Click on the picture.  Right click to save to your computer.

Print at home or send it to your favorite place to print pictures.

If printing at home I like to insert the picture in a word document.  Size and print on cardstock.

These are formatted as 5x7 but can easily be resized to fit your needs.

FHE Lesson for this talk will be posted later this week.