A Fun Way to Document Family Goals

I recently found this post from Make and Takes from last year in which she made a printable with an outline of the year and had her kids write down goals or things they wanted to do that year within the numbers. Go visit her site to see how they used them, and check out her new year’s wishes books for another fun way to display goals for the coming year.

It’s such a great idea and a cool visual reminder of the things you want to do — individually or together as a family.

I didn’t see that she has made one for this year yet so I made a quick version with 2017 on it. It’s a PDF you can download and print, or make your own by opening up a word processing document, typing 2017 in a blocky font, change the font to 300 and the page orientation to landscape. Make the font an outline (mine is blue but I’ll bet you could change the color if you wanted) and center it on the page.

Do you have any family goals this year? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo via Make and Takes.]

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Lunar New Year Books for Kids

Whether you have snow where you live or are on the wrong side of the world for that, these snow glob crafts for kids are a lot of fun to put together at home or in the classroom.

If you want to keep it super basic, you can download some snow globe coloring pages from Monday Mandala and have kids drawn in their own images (or color in what is there for the ones that are already filled). This could be a fun way to play with different media, having kids paint in one, draw in another, or use crayons in one, colored pencils in another, etc.

Or you can add your kid (or a classroom full of kids) to snowglobes with this craft from Twitchetts. It’s easy to make and fun for kids to help with, too.

You can also make snow globes with paper plates pretty easily, and there are lots of different options out there that should give you some ideas. This one from In the Playroom uses blue glittery pompoms as the snow and has a snowman in the background (though you can use whatever you want).

Mas and Pas uses a clear plate on top of a regular plate to make its snow globe, and Daydream into Reality just uses a paper plate to make the snow globe shape but there’s no snow involved. Their template includes different images you can put in the snow globe, or draw your own.

If you want to make a snow globe without the watery (so potentially less mess) you can make a waterless snow globe out of a plastic cup with this tutorial from The Pragmatic Parent. It uses tiny foam balls as the snow. Tidy Mom’s version uses a real glass jar and fake snow to flurry around.

And if you’re OK with using liquids in your snow globe, which will allow the snow to flutter like in a real snow globe, check out this version from 123 Homeschool 4 Me, which uses water and baby oil.

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