Little Learning Lovies: 5 Months of Lovie Pack Downloads Flash Giveaway

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Little Learning Lovies is having another celebration!

It is almost time for the new Lovie Packs to come out. This will be the 6th month that Sandra, from Little Learning Lovies is offering the Lovie Packs. Each month's Lovie Packs have revolved around a different subject.

April: On the Farm
May: Spring Buggies
June: Happy Campers
July: Neverland
August: Fun in the Sun

The thing is, with the Lovie Packs, they are only available for one month and then they are gone.  She realizes that people may have found her site after some of the Lovie Packs were already retired, so in celebration of the 6th month of Lovie Packs, she will be bringing all of the Lovie Packs back! But only for one day, 24 hours.

Tomorrow, on September 1st, you will be able to purchase ANY or ALL of the Lovie Packs from April through the new one for September.

And if this isn't good news enough, today there is a flash giveaway.
The winner will win all 5 Lovie Packs in Digital Download format!

Just enter in the Rafflecopter below!
Ends tonight at midnight!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Disclosure: I am an affiliate with Little Learning Lovies and receive a small commission on purchases made through my links. Thank you for your support. All opinions expressed in this post are my own and are in no way swayed by any compensation I may receive. 

Little Learning Lovies 1 Day Sale

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Little Learning Lovies has passed the 2000 follow mark on Facebook and is celebrating with a store-wide sale. 

There is so much going on over at Little Learning Lovies. Not only has a printing service and laminating service been added (for an small charge), but the owner has been busy working on these new Honor Tags.

These nifty tags can be downloaded for you to print, cut out and laminate yourself, or you can purchase them all ready to use. Award these to your children when they learn specific skills or show different character traits. You can learn more about them by clicking on the Honor Tags image above. 

These Honor Tags are included in the 10% off Store-Wide Sale!

Yes! Store-wide!

That includes the Boxables and the Lovie Packs!

It includes all of the printable activities, even the ones already on sale!

If you've been looking at anything in the Little Learning Lovies' Store, why don't you stop by today and help her celebrate over 2000 Facebook fans

Disclosure: I am an affiliate with Little Learning Lovies and receive a small commission on purchases made through my links. Thank you for your support. All opinions expressed in this post are my own and are in no way swayed by any compensation I may receive. 

Summer Activity Challenge Wk 1

Disclosure: I am an affiliate with Little Learning Lovies and receive a small commission on purchases made through my links. Thank you for your support. All opinions expressed in this post are my own and are in no way swayed by any compensation I may receive. 

Well, I'm a little late posting about what we did last week for the Summer Activity Challenge. I meant to post this on Saturday, but I got busy. Better late than never, huh?

Anyway, if you are not sure what challenge I am talking about I invite you to check out this link for detail.

Sandra at Little Learning Lovies has come up with a fun pack of Summer Activity Cards called "64 Fun Things to Do This Summer." And right now, they are on sale for just $1.00!!

She issued a challenge and there are prizes involved. So, you can spend time with your children and maybe win some prizes, how does that sound? It is not too late to join in!

Story Time

We are participating in 2 Summer Reading Programs. Last week, at our local library, the girls made watering cans,

and Grass hair people

They also had a fun flower snack.

We also went to the nearby town for their story time on Friday. 

Fireworks

Of course we went to see the fireworks on the 4th of July.

Bake Bread

We don't make a lot of bread, usually I will make banana bread. This challenge asked ask to try something different, so when I found this recipe for Ice Cream Bread I had to try it. We made it for our Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen last week.

Sprinklers

The girls enjoy going outside to play in the sprinkler (and while it is running it is also watering our garden).  We came up with a fun game where they toss a ball back and forth through the water.

And it appears Hannah would rather stand and sit in a tiny tub of water.

(Harold isn't really fond of it.)

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Little Learning Lovies Summer Activity Challenge

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Well, summer is officially here, with all its heat and humidity (around here at least). We've been taking it easy, though we are still doing some fun learning (like how to write letters as we write to pen pals and where different states are as we participate in a post card exchange). But the children don't want to just do this all summer. They want to play as all children do. But what to do?

I also know all my readers are not homeschoolers. I've seen many comments floating around already about wanting school to start back up. Perhaps those parents are just at a loss of what to do with their children. Well, Sandra at Little Learning Lovies has come up with a fun pack of Summer Activity Cards called "64 Fun Things to Do This Summer." And right now, they are on sale for just $1.00!!

To make things even more fun, Sandra has issued a challenge and their are prizes involved. So, you can spend time with your children and maybe win some prizes, how does that sound? I invite you to continue reading if you would like to know the details!

Here are the rules:

• This challenge is open world wide.
• No purchase necessary to participate (thought having the deck of activity cards makes life much easier!)
• Challenge begins July 1st 2013 and ends on September 1st, 2013.
• Every Friday, there will be a “Challenge Check In” post on the Little Learning Lovies Blog where you’ll be able to either link to a blog post about your progress or leave a comment stating how many and which ones you've done.
• You will have until the following Thursday to link or comment for the week.
• Each Thursday during the Challenge, she’ll pick one random participating family to get a $2 gift certificate to the Little Learning Lovies Store.
• On September 2nd, she’ll pick 5 random winners who participated and completed all 64 activities to receive a $10 gift certificate to the Little Learning Lovies Store!
• Substituting activities is okay:  She tried hard to make the activities easy for anyone to complete, but sometimes you might not be able to.  You may substitute another activity as long as it’s not a repeat of any other in the pack and it’s fun!  Just let her know when you check in!

So, what do you think? Would you like to participate? Are you ready to have fun and make memories with your children?

Head on over and check out the Activity Card Pack and just start playing with those children. The first check in will be this Friday, July 5th. (Just for the record, I believe one of the activities is going to see the Fireworks, so if you were planning on going to the fireworks this week to celebrate Independence Day you will be completing an activity and be able to link that up and maybe win a $2 GC to the LLL store.)

Disclosure: I am an affiliate with Little Learning Lovies and receive a small commission on purchases made through my links. Thank you for your support. All opinions expressed in this post are my own and are in no way swayed by any compensation I may receive. 

Little Learning Lovies Boxable Storage Box Review

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I have really been enjoying the fun, educational printable games and activities that have been created by Sandra Modersohn, founder of Little Learning Lovies. A new creation has been in the works and she is officially launching them today!

May I introduce you to Boxables, "super sturdy printable boxes that you print out on card stock and assemble in about 20 minutes."  "12 - 15 of [their] fun [Boxables] games will fit right in there! Easy to take along when you travel and, best of all, easy for the kids to keep neat!!"

I received the original box to review, but quite a few different designs have been added recently.

Here is the printed, un-assembled box with the instructions in the top right corner. All that was required to put this together was a glue stick and a pair of scissors.

Here are the step-by-step instructions.

Step 1 was to print all the pieces out.

 For the 2nd step I needed to cut out the pieces that would form the bottom of the box.

The bottom has three pieces: The outer bottom, the support and the decorative inner sheet. I cut them out and folded the tabs.

Then the extra support and the inner sheet were glued inside.

Step 3 consisted of cutting out and putting together the front section. This also has a support piece.

It gets folded in half lengthwise and unfolded, then I did the same with the tabs. The tab to the bottom gets glued to the length of the front, then the support piece gets glued in and the remainder of the front is glued down. I had been a little confused at the instructions here because it said we would glue the remainder down in a moment and somehow I skipped where it said to glue it down. This was completely my oversight, no clue how I missed it. It may have been the constant running back and forth to take care of Harold.

The front is now attached to the bottom.

In Step 4 the back is put together in a similar way to the front.

The opposite bottom tab is glued to the back of the back section.

The decorative piece is then glued on top.

And then the decorative tab is folded down and glued.

Quite simple so far, wouldn't you say?

We move on to the sides in Step 5. 

I cut out all 4 pieces along with the part designation just in case I needed it. Looking back, I really didn't need to keep the letters as we were told to use the "big" sections first, which would be J and K. 

I turned them over and folded the flap to crease it.

They are then glued to the remaining tabs of the bottom section. 

It was in here that I got a little confused as to when to glue down the folded tabs of the sides. It's not that the instructions are not clear. I was just expecting to glue them down a little prematurely. They are actually the last thing to get glued down. Once I realized that I understood what I was doing. 

Now it is time to bring the sides together. I turned it over to put glue on the tab of the back piece, which is then brought together with the side. Then I did the same with the front tab.

It was a little trickier to get glue on the two remaining tabs as I did not want to ruin the parts that were already glued together.

Here is what the box looks like after all the sides are joined.

The only thing left to do was insert and glue down the side decorative pieces. Of course this is where I messed up a bit. Having to put the glue on and push it down inside sounded simple enough, but you have to make sure it is lined up properly. The bottom should fit snug to the bottom of the box. Then you glue down those tabs (you know, the ones I was concerned about).

I realized after I had the tabs glued down nice and securely, that the one side should have been pushed down just a little bit more. My left side is  about 1/4 inch above the right side. 

Fortunately, you can't really tell.

The Boxable Storage Box was very easy to assemble as long as you read the directions carefully. I do have to say it took me almost double the time suggested to complete it. I would recommend putting it together with no distractions (i.e. when the children are in bed), I am sure it wouldn't have taken me near as long.

Now it is just waiting for some Boxable Games to fill it with. The games come with their own printable file folder that match the game and fit nicely in the box. 

Here are some of the Boxables Games I would love to try. 

My favorite Math Games:

My favorite Early Learning Topics:

My favorite Literacy Games:

And my favorite Boxable Box Designs:

There are many more to choose from, just stop by the Little Learning Lovies Store  to see for yourself. Both the Boxes and the Games sell for $2.00 a piece, though there are several games right now that are on sale for 50% off, that's just $1.00. 

To find out more about the Boxables, you are invited to a Facebook Party for the Launch. It is scheduled for 9:30 pm EST tonight, June 20th. You can RSVP here. I plan to attend, and I hope to see you there.

Disclosure: I am an affiliate with Little Learning Lovies and receive a small commission on purchases made through my links. Thank you for your support. I received a Boxables Storage Box in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own and are in no way swayed by any compensation I may receive. I only recommend products I use personally and feel will be a good products for my readers.