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The Ultimate Blog Party 2011

Contest has ended–congrats to our winner: Emily!

Ultimate Blog Party 2011

Welcome to Impress Your Kids!

This is the blog you didn’t even know you need! We are here to help you (at least encourage you!) to make a purposeful, active step toward teaching your kids about God, His Word and His love. We do crafts, read books, sing songs and play games to impress God’s Word on our kids’ hearts!

Here are a few of our favorite posts and a little sampling of the fun stuff that happens here every day:

Birthday Cake Puzzle {based on the Mrs. Rosey Posey book series}


How To Cut Letters, Make Stickers & Fingerpaint with Preschoolers

Popsicle Stick Photo Puzzle

Family Rules

Our whole goal is to find God in the every day. We share that with you and hope you will use our ideas, our failures (yes, failures!) and resources to impress your kids for the Lord, too!

And to give you a little piece of us today, we’re giving away a GIANT prize pack of some really great resources that will help you impress God’s love and Word on your children! Ready? Here goes…

The Moon Shines Downby Margaret Wise Brown
This is our new favorite bedtime story. It’s a giant board book by the author of Good Night, Moon! The story follows a little koala around the world where he sees that God is watching children from all over the world, just as the moon shines on all of us every night. The words and illustrations are beautiful!

How to Be God’s Little Princess: Royal Tips on Manners and Etiquette for Girlsby Sheila Walsh
My 5 year old daughter has not put this book down in 3 days. It’s actually designed for a little older crowd–maybe older elementary. But that doesn’t stop my daughter. This book tells you how to dress, how to throw a party and how to be a real-live Princess. Only instead of the first-kiss-glass-slipper kinda Princess, it’s the God’s daughter kind of princess. We read several sections of the book together and I loved the focus on modesty, on gentleness and servant hood. It’s full of quizzes, funny illustrations and step-by-step instructions. {Oh, and my daughter’s favorite part? How to set the table. Go figure.}

Seeds Family Worship Music Sampler
Oh, how I love Seeds! If you do not have Seeds on your iPod you MUST get it! It’s modern family music with words taken straight from scripture. We have learned so many scriptures from these CDs. And it has helped my daughter learn to wield God’s Word when she’s afraid. I could not recommend them more!

See With Me Bibleby Dennis Jones
This is one of the best books we own. It’s out of print now but I just picked up 2 of them at a half-price book store and felt like I was walking away with gold! There are no words–just detailed, intriguing pictures of some of the Bible’s most loved stories. My children will look at this book page by page from front to back without stopping. It is THAT good!

Twas the Night Before EasterDVD from Veggie Tales
I’ve already told you how much I love this movie. You’ll love it for Easter and all year long! And speaking of which, stop by Monday because we’re going to be hosting a HUGE linky for all your meaningful Easter ideas, traditions and activities! It will be a treasure trove of Easter and Resurrection Day ideas!

Hosanna!-Today’s Top Worship Songs For Kidsby Veggie Tales
This CD is great—it’s modern songs with modern singers (uhm, like Amy Grant and Mark Hall) but with some Veggie voices thrown in. I laughed out loud when Larry is singing with Amy Grant and he says, “I feel like angels are watching over me!” This is one the whole family will love!

Enter to Win The Moon Shines Down, How To Be God’s Little Princess, Seeds Family Worship CD and the See With Me Bible, Veggie Tales DVD and CD Prize Pack (do one or all, leave a separate comment for each):

  • Leave a comment. Let’s get to know each other! Tell me the ages of your kids or what you ate for breakfast!
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Contest ends Sunday, April 10.

Thanks for stopping by!

bible craft

ps–thank you to my regular friends  and readers for letting me introduce our blog to all the Ultimate Blog Party folks! If you are looking for some great blogs and new friends, stop by 5minutesformom to join the party!

Disclosure: I was given The Moon Shines Down and God’s Little Princess in exchange for a review from Tommy Nelson. I received the Seeds Family Worship CDs in exchange for a review. I asked Veggie Tales to donate the CD and DVD. They said yes! I bought the See With Me Bible on my own!


Comments

  2. What a great set of stuff!

    Let’s see – I have a 3yo-turning4onSunday princess.

    I ate (carefully measured) shredded wheat miniatures with soy milk, coffee, and fruit juice-sweetened yogurt for breakfast. That sounds better than I remember it being – I’m hungry already.

    Happy partying!

  4. My boys are 3 and 1 and we had pancakes for breakfast. I tried a new recipe and….I think I’ll stick with my tried and true one. 🙂

  5. Amanda,

    Loving your Easter series. I have a 2.5 yo daughter and am looking so forward to incorporating some of your ideas and the books you’ve recommended. Also, I just found out about the 5minutesforMom site, completely separate from this blog, then saw it mentioned by you, too! What a coincidence!

    Have a great weekend.

    ~Vivian

  6. (And yes, I’ve “Liked” you everywhere! Though I do want to go mention you on the Christian Mommies board on babycenter.com…)

  8. Hi,

    I am a new visitor but I love your blog. I have two littles – boy Nathaniel age 2.5 and girl Adrianna who is almost 4. The resources look great.

  9. I am so glad I found your blog through UBP11!!

    We are jsut dealing with two sick “littles” here today so Mommy is in survival mode.

    I look forward to browsing around your blog some more!

  10. Oooh, so many fun prizes! I am a daily reader and have used many of your fun ideas with my daughter, “Maganda” (tagalog for beautiful) who is 3. Today breakfast was oatmeal. It was supposed to be banana pancakes… but you know how it goes somedays…

  11. Amanda I don’t always get to leave a comment, but I love your blog and the fun things you share with us. Enjoy the party!

  12. I love that photo popsicle stick puzzle! I’m always on the look out for great activities and crafts for preschoolers. I have an almost 1 1/2 year old son.

    Thanks for this opportunity!

  15. Wow, lots of comments! I’ve got a 4, 3, and 1 year old. It’s 3pm now and I have no idea what we ate for breakfast!
    (The 4 & 3 are girls in need of some “real” princess training.)

  23. I have three kiddos–Kate is five (I home school her), Gabriella is three, and the little man, Nate, is 16 months old.

  31. Hi there! Well I came because of the blog party but I think I’ll stay a bit! Love your blog! I have 4 kiddo’s, 19, 16 and 4 year old twins:) I would LOVE to win your giveaway:)

    Michelle

  36. Stopping in from the UBP! I’m glad I found your blog – we’re getting ready to embark on youth ministry, from birth to highschool. I look forward to seeing what kind of ideas I can glean from you!

  38. I have a daughter age 5 and a who turned 3 last week. He and I had oatmeal but his sister had a scrambled egg. I LOVE your blog!

  40. I have a 9 year old and an 11 year old. Ohhhhh, we’ve been saving pennies here for a Seeds cd!!!

  41. I just LOVE your blog. We’ve used many of your ideas. I have a 6 year old and a 3 3/4 year old, both precious little girls. I so desire for them to fall passionately in love with Jesus. Thanks for all you do!

  43. I’ve heard of y’all on Twitter, but never got around to looking you up. So glad I came across you on UBP!

    I will DEFINITELY be back!!

    Oh, yeah … your question lol. I’ve got a 7 1/2yr old and a 2 1/2yr old. Both girls. 😀

  44. Hello! I am just finding your blog for the first time and I can’t wait to explore some more. I am a mama to 4 little loves, 2 boys then 2 girls ages 7, 5, 3, and 4 months. I have recently decided to give up my job as a teacher to stay home with my loves and am excited to look through your ideas to impress them with God’s love.

  46. Hi! I found your blog through the blogging party and I’m so excited to read through all of your ideas. I’ll be sticking around here for a while!

    I have five kiddos (9,5,4,2,6 weeks)

  47. Hi! Here from UBP!
    Love your ideas, I think I’m for sure going to use your family rules one! SUper!
    My kids are 14, 11, 10, 8 and 2. For breakfast I had honey on toast and Coffee;)

  48. Just stopping by with the UBP! I love the idea of the Popsicle stick photo puzzle! I’m going to go follow you now and I plan on coming back for more ideas with my two daughters!

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