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

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

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

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

  44. 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!

  45. 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

  49. The White Tooth Fairy Pillow is a riot! So cute and creative. I am always looking for things my son can do to channel his imagination…this giveaway would be wonderful.. thanks so much!!!!

  50. Great idea! I’ve been wanting (and looking) for something like this for my son! I like the tooth fairy pillows, way more creative than my envelopes that I used when I was a kid! Thanks for the giveaway!

Have you read?

Tips for Teaching the Alphabet to Kids

If you have a little one learning their letters at home or at school, it can be helpful to know a bit about the science that goes into learning your letters and how the experts teach letter recognition.

Knowing the alphabet is the basis for learning how to read, so it’s important to get it down. Kids need to know the differences between letters, to be able to recognize their shapes and to know what sounds the letters make individually before they can start combining them in words. 

Proud to Be Primary suggests starting with letters that are meaningful to the child such as the letters in their name. Tracing letters and doing letter matching and other games with letters are great ways to start kids on the road to recognizing letters. Then things like alphabet songs, books and picture cards can be added in to help with phonics and the basics of reading. 

This Crafty Mom talks about using the Carnine method for teaching letter recognition, which starts with all lowercase letters and separates letters that look similar to each other (like b and d, or c and e). This makes a lot of sense because it’s not as confusing, and you can learn alphabetical order later. 

How Wee Learn uses a slightly different order but the idea is the same, though she also would start with the letters in a child’s name, then go on with the rest of them. This post includes more fun games for letter recognition including digging up letters and taping letters on the floor for kids to throw paper airplanes on. 

Looking for more fun ways to learn the alphabet and letter recognition? This Kaboom game from The Many Little Joys is easy to make, fun for little kids, and once you’ve used it to learn letters you can make a new version for sight words, numbers, basic math problems and more.

Early Learning Ideas has tons of letter activities including collages, crafts, tactile letter cards, letter recognition activities and much more. Do one letter a day or a week and your kiddos will know their letters in no time. And be sure to grab these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs, which give kids easy activities for recognizing letters and words that begin with them. 

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