Practicing Handwriting

With all the back to school excitement, the kids are right into the idea of homework (well, this week anyway!) so I'm embracing this enthusiasm and have been searching for some cool websites with worksheets that will suit both of their ages (5 and just about 4).

This site proved to be fabulous! You can enter the text you want and it makes your words into tracing dashes, puts them on writing lines and also includes starting point dots. It's brilliant and there are lots of variables you can play around with like single words, sentences, sizes, cursive fonts and prompt arrows.

I had Molly practice her full name

and Ned asked me to type in "Fred is a lovely cat"

It certainly made for a cool activity that they loved, and asked to do again tonight.

I promise my next post will be nothing to do with education, and be far more pretty to look at :)

Rebecca ox

"Twas the night before school started, when all over town, parents were cheering...It was a riotous sound!!!!, by 8 the kids were washed and tucked into bed..... where memories of homework filled them with dread!!!! New pencils, New folders, New notebooks too!!! New teachers, New friends, their anxiety grew!!! The parents just giggled when they learnt of this fright and shouted down the hallway, go to bed it is a school night!!"
I did have a chuckle at this doing the rounds tonight. I will miss Ned terribly (and Molly with be completely lost without him around), but Ned is excited about returning to school tomorrow and thats the best part.

Another thing doing the rounds tonight on Pinterest, is the "Back To School Interview" questions. A lot of the links I found were for paid files, so I thought I'd ask a couple of the mums out there what they would like to ask their child on the eve of returning to school, and make one up myself. I also wanted to accommodate a photo, and I will do this interview at the start of each school year (until they will let me lol). I think it will be a hoot to look back on in years to come.

Please feel free to download the file and I'd love to hear and see some of the replies!

Please email me at info@littlespunkymonkey.com.au if you have any trouble with the file.

Enjoy tomorrow, those with kiddlets returning to school, and enjoy even more your quieter coffee straight after that ;)

Rebecca ox

Well 28 days into the new year and I am finally getting to my new year's resolution of reigniting my poor poor blog. I missed her. I missed sharing ideas with people. I missed rambling.

I guess the fact that my tardiness is due to getting back on track after a super busy end to last year, means things are a good busy. Already this year promises many new products, new party themes, new inspiring customers and hopefully a new exciting venture.

In the lead up to Christmas I offered some free printable 'Reindeer Feed' bag toppers and instructions (here), and after emailing out over 100 copies to customers, I was so happy to hear that they bought so much happiness to so many families. The many messages of thanks I received were so lovely, and were what spurred me on to get back on the blogging bandwagon (that coupled with the fact I can now blog from my phone in the car, doing a middle of the night feed or while making dinner, sure does help when you don't have to be in front of the computer!).

Many of you said that my projects and posts inspire you to try new things and give new recipes, craft ideas and party ideas a go. I love and live DIY, and am throwing myself into up-cycling at the moment. Thats a whole other post though.

SO... with a busy couple of weeks ahead (3 parties this weekend, butterfly/garden party next weekend, balloon party the weekend after that, then Molly's 4th party to organise and then a couple of weeks later Archie's 1st birthday to get my head around) I am kicking of this exciting time with the {Inspiration Board} for the butterfly/garden party next weekend.

Its a 1st birthday to be held in a park, with lots of kids of all ages and a pretty fun theme to work with!
I had a lot of fun with the invitations, which can be viewed here.
Hope you enjoy it, and hope you have recovered from the shock of this old lass being fired up again.

Till next time, take care,
Rebecca ox