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My Food Fun Features This Week! 

Crystal and Co. have some great snack ideas to go along with the alphabet!

True Aim made some super cute eggs in toast!

P is for Preschooler has some games to play to help your fussy eaters!

Craftulate played with their food by adding candy corn to slime!

Reading Confetti had some fun learning with their candy by practicing letter recognition!

Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails made some cute turkeys out of M&Ms!

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True Aim Education 

Ready-Set-Read

Crystal's Tiny Treasures

iGameMom

Frogs & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails

More Fun, Mom

Sara Ella

Pounds4Pennies

Home is Where They Send Us

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This week starts 5 weeks of big giveaways with something for everyone!

This week's giveaways include a Bee Alert Memory Game, a Children's Language DVD Pack, Scripture Lullabies, and $50 to either Amazon or Paypal!!!

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Egg Carton Owls

These cute little owls are based on the ones made by Art and Soul Preschool. The girls auntie came across them, and (not so subtly) requested some of her own.  Even Eli was happy to make some because it meant he got to paint!

To start with you need an egg carton. Cut the top off the bottom. Then cut the top in two pieces and the bottom into sections of two to make eyes. When Cutting the eyes be sure to include the pointy section between the egg spaces to make the beak!  You can also vary the angle of your scissors to give them slightly different look. We made 4 owls, so we used two egg cartons.

Next you need to paint your egg cartons. We chose to go with whatever colors the kids wanted rather then sticking to fall colors. Eli enjoyed painting on the table too. 

Once they are dry you can glue on some feathers and glue your eye sockets on. Then add some eyes. We went with large googly eyes because they were most owl like. And here are our finished owls (I made one too just because we had the supplies). We delivered them that night, and I think their auntie was quite pleased!

Season Tree Sun Catchers

We made these cute hand print sun catchers using oil pastels and a laminator! Head over to Enchanted Homeschooling Mom to read how you can make some too!

Bright Light Pillow Review

A pillow, a night light....it's both! Seriously my girls have been asking for one of these since they first saw the commercial maybe a year ago! I was thrilled to be able to review one to see if it lived up to the hype.

We were gone the day it arrived, so that evening before bed I presented it to Nadia, the lover of all fuzzy things. She was thrilled! 

We put in 3 AA batteries and she immediately turned it on and hugged it. Eli thought he needed a turn too, and who could blame him, it is super soft!

At first it only cycled through individual colors and I started to get a bit skeptical, but if you want a few minutes it starts glowing many colors at once. It continues to glow for about 15 minutes before turning itself off, but you don't have to wait the 15 minutes. If you want it off before (because you are driving and keep thinking a cop is behind you from the flashing lights) you just push the power button again.

I was actually quite pleased with this pillow. It is super soft and does exactly what is advertised. I hate that it is surface clean only, but obviously with all the lights in it there isn't another choice. I can say that blackberry yogurt comes off of it nicely with a damp cloth (thanks to Eli for that test). 

You do want to make sure you don't give it to a child who is unlikely to follow instructions like "don't throw the pillow" because that battery pack would hurt! It actually says ages 8 and up on the instructions.

Overall it is a nice pillow and Nadia is thrilled with it (she calls it her luma for all the Super Mario Galaxy fans out there; yes, we're raising nerds here). 

To purchase your own Bright Light Pillow visit www.brightlightpillow.com. They retail for $19.99 with $7.99 shipping and handling; you can get free shipping and handling if you order three or more. They currently have squares and hearts, but I am sure in time other shapes will pop up! 

Mom's Library Science Experiments for Preschoolers

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My Scientific Features This Week! 

P is for Preschooler experimented with pennies!

Living Montessori Now experimented with magnets!

Little Bins for Little Hands experimented with density!

Gift of Curiosity experimented with rotten pumpkins!

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iGameMom

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More Fun, Mom

Sara Ella

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Home is Where They Send Us

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Our Giveaway this week a Christmas Crafts for Kids ebook! To read the review head over to Crystal's Tiny Treasures!

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DIY Light Table

A light box is something I have always thought my kids would enjoy, but I never wanted to spend the money on one. Finally I got around to making our own. I used a large, clear, Rubbermaid container, two strands of Christmas lights, and press and seal wrap (love that stuff).  I lined the bottom of the container with the press and seal wrap (the top may have been a better idea, and I may do it too), and I stuck the lights inside! All done, homemade light table!

I had found these cute little fall themed plastic pieces at Target that would be perfect for the light table. The girls were enthralled with it!

They made patterns....

And shapes....

And more patterns!

Then I got out some Easter grass and made a pumpkin patch!

After their Lego people had collected all the pumpkins we got out our tiny crystal ponies; because nothing can be done without ponies! 

Overall the girls were quite pleased with their little light table (I was too) and played with it most of the afternoon!  And bonus, you can store all the lights in it!