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The REAL Miracle of the First Thanksgiving

For many years during the month of November, we encouraged our young children to identify something every single day that they were thankful for. We wrote these sweet sentiments down and hung each one on our “Thankful Tree” in…

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Printable Kindness BINGO Board

This Printable Kindness BINGO board is great for encouraging children to be intentionally kind to those around them. Print and use in the classroom, at home, at church, or in Girl and Boy Scouts! My children’s school is…

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Best Children’s Bibles for Babies To Preschoolers 2019

First published November 2012. Updated 2019. One of our three Christmas gifts each year to our boys is either a new Children’s Bible or a Bible Story Book. It is always so fun to curl up together and open…

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Birthday Box Ideas

Birthday Box Ideas Post by Contributing Writer Amy Two little girls will be 4 years old on the 4th and could not be more excited for their golden birthday. Now that they are getting older, I am becoming more aware…

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Jesus Heals the Blind Man Craft

Jesus Heals The Blind Man (John 9: 1-12) I filled in for the 2-3 year old’s Sunday School or Bible Class Teacher this past Wednesday and didn’t have any lesson plans, so we decided to do a super-simple lesson on Jesus…

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Blessings Jar: How To Start One In Your Family

The Blessing Jar has been a tradition in my family for several years. My oldest brother Brian and my mom found ceramic jars that said “Blessings” on them back during Christmas of 1996 while traveling to see my great-grandmother. My brother insisted that…

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Bible Verses For Kids: Printable Scripture Cards

I’ve been increasingly convicted of the necessity to memorize scripture… both for myself and for my family. A quote from a session in the current Beth Moore Bible study I’m participating in hit me particularly hard: “What good does it…

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Free Printable Bible Verses For Moms

These scripture cards are specifically for me, as a Mom! I already created a set of ABC scripture cards for the kids. I printed the bible verses off and will laminate them. Then I’m going to stick the scripture cards…

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Blessing Bags

Photo Credit from Joy’s Hope Serving the Homeless With Blessing Bags I saw this idea for Blessing Bags from Kids With a Vision and thought it was too wonderful not to share! What are Blessing Bags? If you are unfamiliar with the…

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David and Goliath Craft: 5 Stones and 1 Mighty God

Guest Post by Jen of When You Rise David and Goliath For Kids First published May 2012. Updated 2018. One of my daughter’s favorite Bible stories is about David and Goliath. We’ve read it countless times over the years and…

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Thanksgiving Blessing Bags To Give Away

It has been a while since we have posted a new blessing bag printable. My goal at the beginning of the year was to post one every single month. But this summer our local police department asked people to stop…

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Is it worth it? The case against posting pictures with friends online.

I still remember the sting I felt six years ago. I was mindlessly scrolling Facebook one Saturday afternoon when I came to a picture of familiar faces. Several of my friends from church had carpooled two hours away to…

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Books of the Bible Activities For Kids

Books of The Bible Activities First published August 2015. Updated 2017. A few years ago, our church adopted a new rotation model curriculum. One of the goals of our new curriculum is for the students to know the Word of…

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Entertaining My Children is Not My Life’s Mission

We are only a week into summer and I texted my husband at 8am this morning saying that I am ready to officially resign from my position as cruise ship director. I am so done trying to keep my…

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May Blessing Bags

Another month…another set of blessing bags! We are sharing a new mini blessing bag idea each month this year along with a free printable to include. We have found that the sandwich-size blessing bags are much easier to…

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I gave up Facebook for 6 weeks…and it rocked my world!

I gave up Facebook for Lent. The denomination we attend doesn’t formally participate in Lent but I thought it was a good opportunity to exercise some self control…one of the Fruits of the Spirit that I tend to struggle with…

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April Blessing Bags with Free Printable

We are sharing a new mini blessing bag idea each month this year along with a free printable to include in your mini blessing bags. We have found that the sandwich-size blessing bags are much easier to…

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March Mini Blessing Bags (with free printable)

Back in February I shared that I was going to be offering a free monthly printable for creating mini Blessing Bags. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a blessing bag, this is just a simple way to be a blessing to…

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