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Surprise Giveaway-Sleepy Sillys

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I’m excited to announce the first giveaway EVER on this site!! 

Sleepy Sillys, an Etsy shop, sells a fabulous Rainy Day Craft Caboodle full of essential supplies for creative projects. It holds well over 100 items including contruction paper, glitter glue, buttons, stencils, felt pieces and much more!!

And, Sleepy Sillys has been generous enough to offer ONE LUCKY COMMENTER  a Rainy Day Craft Caboodle of your very own!! This giveaway is open to residents of Canada and US ONLY.

To enter this giveaway:
1. Click on Sleepy Sillys and take a look around.

2. Come back here and leave a comment on THIS POST telling me what you love most in the shop.

3. For an extra entry, add a link to Lesson Plans on your blog sidebar.  Come back and let me know that you did it.

4. Please, please either leave me your email address or blog link so that I can contact you if you win. Comments with no email address or blog link will be deleted. If I cannot contact you, I will choose another winner.

5. You have until Sunday, February 15th at midnight MST to enter. Check back on Monday to find out if you are the lucky winner!

**BLOG ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY FOR ANOTHER EXTRA ENTRY!! Then come back and let me know where you posted.

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  3. I love the White Tooth Fairy Pillow with Blue Pocket and Purple Bow.
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  6. What a great idea this Craft Caboodle is!
    I also love the Adorable Cuddley Car Seat Blankets. Thanks so much.

  18. I liked the Girls Sleepover Autograph Pillowcase for Slumber party. What a clever idea! The Craft kit looks like my kids would be kept very busy during those rainy days.

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  22. i just love the tooth fairy pillows and the recycled crayons–just too cute for words. I would ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOVEE to win this caboodle! It would be perfect to keep the kids entertained on cold, wet days!

    Thanks!
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  23. I love the Girls Sleepover Autograph Pillowcase for Slumber Party! That is such a great idea!!
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  24. I’m SO glad that I’ve stumbled on to this amazing site!! Thanks for the chance to win…what a cool idea from Sleepy Sillys! I love her shop, and besides the Rainy Day Box…I LOVE the Autograph Pillow case…my daughter would flip over it! So fun!

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  32. I also love the Adorable Baby Car Seat Blanket in blue camo!

    Thanks for the giveaway!
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  38. I like the recycled crayons! I think I will try to make my own =) Also, I added a Lesson Plans link to my blog and blogged about the giveaway!
    Thanks!

  40. I love the purple tooth fairy pillow! So sweet and I think it would make getting something from the tooth fairy extra special!

  41. I like her Car Seat Blankets – they look sooo cuddly soft! My favourite of them is the Blue Camo one.

  42. I really like the Adorable Baby Car Seat Blanket–Purple with Stars. Love the print. thanks for the chance to win.

  43. I really like the Girls Sleepover Autograph Pillowcase for Slumber Party. That would be a great keepsake. Thank you!

  46. As a busy Mom I can really appreciate her etsy store. I love the idea of being able to pull out the a jar ready full of ready to craft items. The recycled crayons are cool too, I remember making those as a kid. Fun stuff!

  47. Rainy Day Kids Craft Caboodle Kit ITS THE MOST I LOVE.
    I want participate from Spain, and i post you in my giveaway blog (sorteos y concursos).
    My email is in my profile of the blog.
    Thanks

Have you read?

Book Review: Las Mañanitas

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to  share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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