Digital Designs for the LDS Family
Having a basketball Birthday party or March madness party. Here are some awesome tools you can use for your party. We have a lot of great things in the shop as well as my husband has made a great bracket generator. Check out his youtube video below.
I was so excited this year to start planning. Instead of new years goals this year I wanted something that would keep me motivated all year long. I decided to make a planner that fit my needs and goals perfectly. I wanted something where I could have a monthly evaluation of my goals, weekly and daily. I’ve designed the planner to sit down once a month and do a monthly council/ planning, a weekly planning where we do an inventory our relationships and take time to work through problems and recognize the positive in one another, and daily planning where I actually plan to accomplish all the goals. It’s still in the perfecting stage and I want to add some yearly planning sheets (still not there yet.) Christmas lists, Birthday parties lists…ect.
What would you like to see in a planner?
Try this planner out this year for free. Simply download and send to print. I printed mine at home. Front and back. (if you don’t have a front and back printer you may need to mess with it a little to make sure it comes out right.) I printed and laminated the cover and back and then I took it to staples to bind it.
We all wish there was a manual that comes with our babies right. Well, we have a lot of tools and research that has gone into parenting. Reading parenting books is a great way to be more deliberate with the way we act with our children. After all, we kind of create their whole world to start with. I wanted to share some of the books I’ve read that have changed the way I parent and act with my kids.
Raising an emotionally intelligent Child by Dr. John Gottman
This book is intense but I love it because it provides tools to help children cope with their emotions. (which are behind their actions) It taught me how to teach my child how to be emotionally intelligent.
Love and Logic
Love and logic provides an excellent toolkit to deal with the day to day misbehaviors and teaching responsibility and self motivation to our kids.
Mindful Discipline
Mindful discipline goes right along with “raising and emotionally intelligent child. It is a little easier to read though.
Peaceful parent, Happy Siblings
Ever worry about sibling rivalry. This book is helping me view my kids in a perspective that i can raise them to love each other!
We are doing a countdown chain for the #lighttheworld Christmas campaign. If you want to join us download the pdf here.
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| This sheet is if you want to print on the back to match the front. |
A great FHE that can help prepare your family for an emergency is to review and pack your 72 hour kit. Emergency preparedness can give us security and a plan in case of emergency. Imagine that having to get up and leave is an actual reality. Would your 72 hr kit be sufficient?
This FHE is inspired by this family’s awesome story here.
Start FHE With a song and prayer
we sang “I will go, I will do”
After the prayer announce to your kids that you are having an emergency practice. Everyone has 3 minutes to get everything they will need for the next three days and be in the car. After the three minutes are up tell everyone to get in the car.
If you have a 72 hr kit already, throw it in.
After this experience you can can with your family about what you learned. Do you think you are prepared? What would you need to be more prepared? Does everyone know where and what is in the 72 hour kits?
Make a list of everything you may need in your 72 hour kit. We just used this one.
Here is what we decided to get:
Awesome Backpacks that would make carrying all of this easier
Shelter: We got a tarp and rope as well as plastic sheeting, and we already have a tent.
wool blanket or sleeping bags
Camp Stove and Fuel: this one is great as well as storing wood in your home… and don’t forget matches
Cooking pots and Utensils: small cookware. we grabbed utensils we already had.
Flashlights: This flashlight lantern is great or this solar hand crank one that also has a charger and radio attached.
AM/FM Radio: This is another combination one
Long Burning candle:
Mantle Lantern:
Light Sticks:
Second Method to start fire: Butane starter or flint and steel
Disposable plates, cups, and utensils:
Zip lock bags
Duct Tape
Plastic Sheeting
Tools:
Shovel, Hatchet, Axe, Handheld Chainsaw, Pocket knife, leatherman
First Aid Kit and supplies
General first aid kit, burn kit and large dressings, or get this fully stocked kit
Prescription medicines taken regularly
Potassium iodide tablets
emergency battery pack for cell phone
50 ft nylon rope and heavy duty tarp with grommets
Whistle with neck cord (this is also compass, thermometer, and mirror)
Makeshift toilet and toilet paper
13 Gallon trash can liners
Nitrile rubber gloves
Dust masks
disinfectant
Personal Comfort kit
Toothbrushes, sanitary napkins, diapers, wipes, deodorant, sewing kit, razors, tissues…ect
Spare eyeglasses
Fire extinguisher
Money (small bills for robbers)
Copies of important papers: wills, birth certificate, insurance forms, emergency phone numbers, ss card
Change of clothes
gloves
Walkie Talkies
If you would like to purchase them find them here in my etsy store.
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*Update: There has been a request for the old patterned door signs where you can type the names in. here is the link to that download!
We had a super fun bug party for my 3 year old. We basically kept it pretty simple with a couple of cute buggy touches. He’s only three so we didn’t have any kids over but had a great party with family.
I made up a cute buggy banner:
download here. (doesn’t include characters.)
Added these cute gift tags and printed off some pretty creepy bugs to go along with it.
you can get the editable gift tags here. Search “bug silhouettes” for great bugs to go with it. i used this one and this one.
The Cake was the best however. We had the best dirt cake ever with some creepy crawly bugs added on top.
The delicious dirt cake recipe was courtesy of pinterest and tasted simply divine. You can find that recipe here. I took added crushed vanilla oreos to one of the layers to shake it up and i liked how it turned out.
The bugs came from this great idea here! I ended up tracing different bugs so they aren’t exactly the same but still loved the way they turned out.
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| 1 Yearly Theme Poster 8×10 and 11×14 |
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| 12 Monthly Theme Posters 8×10 and 11×14 |
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| Editable class and presidency binder cover with Presidency contact info |
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| Editable back binder cover with Sunday and lesson schedule |
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| Editable Door signs or leave the names blank to put in sheet protector with dry erase markers |
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| Matching assignment cards/ wristbands |
If you still cannot download the file feel free to email me at: onewillisfamily@gmail.com and I will send the attachments in reply.
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This little bundle includes a lot of extras for primary this year.
11×17 Sheets of Yearly Theme, Editable Color Sheets, Matching Border printables, Circle Yearly Scripture, Circle Articles of Faith, Editable Banner, Plus matching bookmarks for the theme.
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