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Before we left Utah my mom and I were wondering around The Quilted Bear and found some awesome books! There were tons of them filled with ideas and activities for kids. We narrowed it down to these two ... believe me, it was hard to do! I really wanted all of them!


Well since buying these books, Em was born, we moved back out here, and life has just been crazy. When I was cleaning out my (someday) Craft Room I found them and decided to finally do them. This past 2 weeks I have been coloring, cutting, and laminating all night long. Jeff has been such an awesome helper too, he is quite the cutting pro if I do say so myself. I'm happy to announce that this week we finished 12 file folder games! I'm so excited for church on Sunday, P is going to LOVE them!!

Here they are!!
Don't they look so fun!

The ones we did were:
  • Grandpa's Garden - matching colors & shapes of veggies
  • Lehi Liahona Letters - matching letters
  • Sheep Sorters - matching numbers to the number of dots
  • Nephi's Ship Shapes - Matching Shapes
  • Family Faces - putting the right face on the right body (grandma, baby, dad, etc)
  • Catch a Color - Matching the right colors together
  • Mormon Match - Kinda like a puzzle
  • Grandma's Grab Bag - Putting the items back where they belong
  • A Pioneer Picture - Shapes in the picture
  • Cool Tools - Putting the tools back in the right spot
  • Count your Blessing - Another matching dots with the correct number
  • LDS...ABC's - Matching pictures with the first letter of what it is (for example, put the temple on the "T")
  • Joseph's Crazy Coat of many colors (this is all done too except it needs velcro)
There are still a few more in the book. Lots of bingo type games and a few others that would be good for kids a little older than mine. But really, I'm so excited. I want to buy the rest of them and make them right now. It was such an easy fun project to do while watching a movie or show and fun to work together with my hubby. What a guy!

If you are interested in making some let me know. I already have the books so might as well share the love! You can just make copies of the ones you want. Also, if you are interested in buying some for yourself (I think there are 10+ different books) here is their website. They also sell them at Deseret Book (scroll down a little and you'll see them). Also, if any of you have a different one and want to swap for a little, that would be awesome! :) And really, if you want to make a copy of any of these, let me know! I'm happy to share.

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April J. said…
I do actually have a book, I will let you borrow it whenever you want! I have not made any but I was jealous of the McClellan Clan when she pulled out her bage FULL of them for the grandkids!
September 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Braeden and Jackie said…
I LOVE the Finch Family activities. I just bought myself a CD-Rom with something like 30 of the file folder games. Now I just need to make the time to do them.
September 4, 2011 at 8:03 AM
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