Just found something really cool to share with you -

This is a new website I found this morning with loads of fun activities on videos for kids and their parents:

http://www.activitytv.com/default.aspx

Different categories include cartooning, cooking, crafts, dance, jewelry, origami, music, paper airplanes, room projects, summer fun, family gifts, juggling, puppets, science, seasons like Easter and Thanksgiving, and MORE!

Under the Room Projects, you'll find a cute activity for making a window flower box with tissue paper, a beaded curtain, drawer pulls, and a pirate lampshade. And that's just a sample!

You watch the video, print out instructions, and then do it yourself with your family! This is definitely a site to check out and bookmark!

Have fun!

Molly

Nationwide Volunteer Opportunities

Here is a list of places you and your family can volunteer throughout America:

Operation Shoe Box: Support our fighting men and women deployed overseas. Send "goodies" to the troops. Check the website for info on what to send and how to send it. http://www.operationshoebox.com/

Operation Post Card: Send postcards to our troops overseas. For info: http://bluestarmoms.org/postcard.html

Charitable Sewing Projects: A list of projects that helps those in need: http://www.sewing.org/enthusiast/html/e_charitysew.html.

Head Huggers - Sew for someone who has undergone hair loss due to Chemotherapy: http://www.headhuggers.org/

Knit for Kids - Guideposts has partnered with many leading organizations including, World Vision and Feed the Children to clothe needy children here in America and around the world in places like Romania, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kosovo to name a few. Here's how you can participate: http://www.dailyguideposts.com/help/sweater.asp

Care Wear - a nationwide group of volunteers who knit, crochet, and/or sew, providing handmade baby items to hospitals. All Care Wear items are given free to infants, children and their parents. http://www.carewear.org/

Diapers for Hondoras - http://www.nemnsynod.org/diapers.html

Sew Much Comfort - Sew "adaptive clothing" for wounded troops: http://www.sewmuchcomfort.org/

Benjamin Smiles Pillows - sew pillows for young cancer victims: http://www.gailbrown.com/articles/Ben_Smilesinstr.htm

Project Linus - provides love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans. http://www.projectlinus.org/index.shtml

Rag Dolls 2 Love - Their goal is to pu a soft cloth doll in the hands of children in countries ravaged by war. They also ship to children infected with HIV/AIDS, children in orphanages, children rescued from a life of prostitution, children affected by natural disasters.. http://www.ragdolls2love.org/

Sewing Charity - an alphabetically list of charities that need sewing volunteers: http://www.dotdigital.com/sewingcharity/alphabetical.html

Snuggles Project - provides more than 500,000 Snuggles to shelter animals around the world. Crochet, knit, quilt or sew cloth blankets for cats, dogs, and small animals in shelters. http://www.snugglesproject.org/

Annual Christmas Stocking Project: The Newborns in Need national office donates full size Christmas stockings to different emergency rooms (hospitals), social service offices, law enforcement offices, health departments, etc. for use with children who would otherwise go without during the holiday season. http://www.newbornsinneed.org/html/stocking_project.html

Patterns for Preemies. Patterns that can be used to make clothes for preemies and donate to your local hospital: http://project-angel-kisses.150m.com/1memberpatterns.html

Quilting Angels! Creates quilts for children with critical, terminal or life-long illnesses. Each quilt is designed and made specifically for a child by women and men all over the country by donating one block at a time. http://www.quiltingangels.org/

Sojour Bears. The organization's goal is to make cancer bear-able by providing inspiration and comfort to cancer patients through the distribution of original hand-made teddy bears. http://www.jmjgifts.com/SojournBears.html

Free Summer Science Fun - NEED TO SIGN UP SOON THOUGH!!

Space is limited, so if you are interested in this, don't procrastinate. I tried to get my children in this last summer and missed it.

Summer Club and Kid's Club are designed for Christian Homeschool kids from age eight to eighteen, but all are welcome. Last year there were over 1000 kids who signed up and boy did we have fun. Learned a lot too!

Summer clubs, like all Quick Study Labs programs, are designed to focus the imagination and interest of our kids on the wonders of our world through scientific discovery, math, and physics! Kids are naturally curious, they just need a little direction to put that curiosity to work.

For more information look under CLUBS at the bottom of the main menu of www.quickstudylabs.com (If this link does not work, copy and paste it into your browser).

Joel Phillips
Teaching Technology to Homeschool Youth
Think Quick------Quick Study Labs
www.QuickStudyLabs.com