September 30th 2015 - Spell book

September 30th 2015 - Spell book

Going back to the beginning of the year I started to make a Spell book from some of the spells on this board.  It has taken ages to get sorted as I have typed up all the spells I want to use, had to make sure they were all the same colour and fonts and all had the page logo on.  I bought cream paper to print them on and hhad to wait until I had ink to actually dothem.

I spent a long time today printing the pages, some duplicated, some printed in a pinky colour not brown so I had to re-do them.  I am happy to say that my spells are now printed for the book.  I just need to glue the pages to the book that I made.

This is just 1 page before it was printed on cream paper but it gives you an idea of what I have done.

June 29th 2015 - Party planning

June 29th 2015 - Party planning

As daft as it may sound I am planning my sons birthday party that is in 2months time (yesterday).  But there is a method to my madness, I have loads happening over the next few weeks and I won't even be holding the party at my house but my sons godmothers house over 5hrs drive away!

Therefore I am unable to stick loads of stuff on walls etc like I do at home and go OTT for the party.  Don't get me wrong it will be good but wont have stuff everywhere like I usually do.

I was looking online for Thomas the Tank party banners and bunting and realised very quickly how expensive they actually are.  The 2 images linked to the pins above gave me a good idea.  I started hunting the net for images of thomas trains with their names on them, there are loads that were made as jigsaw puzzles.  I added these to w word document, flipped them over and added next to it so that I can double side them.  Only thing I didn't thing about was the name is now backwards on the reverse, but never mind!  It's better than plain white paper.

Here are some of them:

Once they were all printed I cut them out, doubled them up and then laminated them all.  I am going to put a hole in each one and a few pieces of curling ribbon so they can hang from door frames.

I also copied the design of the above link and edited it to my sons name and age, and have printed loads and laminated them as well to go around the table edge.

I also printed food labels linked to the trains and have printed wheels to go on the food tubs as cargo cars behind some of sons trains that I will be taking with us.

Watch this space for more updates on the Thomas Tank party.

May 18th 2015 - Bird book

May 18th 2015 - Bird book

Today has spent at the computer and printer!  I have made little Bird books similar to this pin but with extra pages for the Badgers to do on Wednesday as we are talking about birds as part of their Wild badge. 

I have included a garden bird survey, a colouring page, a wordseaarch, a missing letter in bird names sheet and some draw and write about the birds you have seen.

I thought I had got all the sheets in the right order for when printed to make a book - errrr no!  So me and hubby sat and cut the pages and stuck them to other folder bits of A4 paper to get them as they should be, I then opened out each page and moved my cut n paste worksheets to the right place.  Once this was done and re-printed they were as I hoped they should be.

I also printed off some news paper articles on animals and pets for the Cadets to use on Wednesday as part of their Animal Welfare badge.  At least this part was very easy to do!