Elf on the Shelf Calendar

While I am not ready to come back to blogging or designing, I did want to take a moment to share something I made! Here is a little planner sheet that I am going to use to keep up with all of the mischievous elf happenings around here. I hope you find it useful!

Leave a comment below with any great elf ideas you have.

Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: December 2015

December is an extra special month for me because it is my birthday!!! (and my mom's birth month!) That's right! I was born on Dec. 1 and she was born on Dec 14.

I hope you like the December Desktop Calendar! And uhhh, sorry for missing October AND November!! I need more free time. :) I already have a GREAT idea for January so I don't think I'll miss that month. :)

Feel free to download the calendar from my google driver for FREE!

More Elfing Around!

Here are a few more Elf on the Shelf ideas for you and they are classroom approved! (not classroom tested) hehe Our girl elf Harry delivered a jingle bell necklace for Zoey. Harry also took out all of her books and had a nice little read in the middle of the living room.  

Everyday I find myself searching for quick and easy Elf on the Shelf ideas. I am not sure where I first saw the idea of using cotton balls as snow but it worked for us. Harry led a snowy cotton ball trail all the way to Zoey's bedroom. This worked as a double activity. Zoey decided to have a blast with these snow balls and throw them all over the place. She threw them in the air and pretended like it was snowing. I was completely OK with this because these super light balls could not hurt a fly. Ahhh worry free fun! On day 2 of having the cotton balls out she is still entertained by them!

After having the cotton balls thrown all over the house we could not use them for their normal purpose, so I copied this Spiderman idea. He had to swing in and save Lalaloopsy and some random chick! My daughter LOVES super heroes so this was right up her ally. She did not take her eyes of of these spidey events for a good minute. Which is FOREVER in 3 year old land! :)

Cool! As I was typing this post and uploading the images Google sent me a message about an animated photo that Google automatically created. I never heard of such a thing but the first photo is what they sent to me. So neat!

What has your Elf been up to this week? What is your Elf's name?

~Mrs. Bearfield~

Create! - Glittery Gingerbread Man

This semester has been lots of fun! I was able to observe and participate in a local kindergarten class! My host teacher Mrs. W was amazing! After my official class visits I had to go back and pick something up and I thought I would stay a while and help out. Mrs. W offered up this fun craft for me to do with my daughter!

These are the supplies we used.

I helped put the glue in the "right" place for the icing and eyes but I let her do the buttons and mouth.

Our little gingerbread man now proudly hangs in our living room. Which reminds me about these Scotch Restickable shapes. These things are amazing for quickly hanging things up! Be careful as the could tear the paper. (I was not paid to talk about Scotch but I did get a free sample of these things a while back.)

What fun things did you do with your kids this week? Either your at home kids or your school kids? :)

~Mrs. Bearfield~