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#1. December 4, 2013
Dear Reader,
In an attempt to garner more Amazon reviews for the second volume of my Jokes By Kids ebook, it is currently free!
Grab a copy now, before the promo ends on Friday. And, if you have the time, I would love to hear what you thought of it. Your review can be posted on the same Amazon page where you pick up the book. Just look for the “Write a Customer Review” button.
Here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWL39SY/
See ya on the Net,
Barbara J. Feldman
"Surfing the Net with Kids"
https://www.surfnetkids.com
#2. Gingerbread Houses
by Barbara J. Feldman
https://www.surfnetkids.com/gingerbread_houses.htm
Gingerbread Houses Printable (** for premium members only)
https://www.surfnetkids.com/printables/files/printables-club/gingerbread_houses.pdf
Gingerbread is a baked treat that dates back to the Middle Ages. It is thought to have first appeared in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, when the Swiss monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana baked gingerbread on holidays and gave it to the sick. Over the years, baking gingerbread cookies and building gingerbread houses developed into a popular American Christmas tradition.
Celebrating Christmas: Gingerbread House 101
“From very simple designs for busy moms and dads to challenging art projects for those artists among us, we’ve got it all. Let the decorating begin!!!” Celebrating Christmas offers a potpourri of gingerbread house advice, from how to plan a gingerbread party to recipes for gingerbread tree ornaments. Highlights are six gingerbread house blueprints (including a log cabin, chapel, country store and Victorian) although you will need to enlarge the patterns before using them.
Highlights Kids: Design Your Own Gingerbread House
To add a little computer fun to today’s topic, this pick is an online game. Decorate your virtual gingerbread house with the usual Candy and Icing, or go crazy with silly Food and Stuff such as a whole fish, a tennis ball, or alphabet blocks to spell out your name. Move items onto the house by clicking once to pick up, then again to release onto your house. Controls include Rotate, Resize, Flip, Start Over, and Print (so you can hang your finished creation on the refrigerator door.)
King Arthur Flour: Building a Gingerbread House
This fourteen-page PDF from King Arthur Flour offers the most detailed gingerbread house building instructions I found online. It includes a printable pattern, oodles of photos, and tips you won’t find anywhere else. For example, to create multi-colored stained glass panels, try melting hard candies in the oven. Or to create the look of window panes, paint diagonal muntins on gelatin sheets. And to help your gingerbread people keep their balance, attach mini-marshmallow kick-stands to their backs.
… Click to continue Gingerbread Houses .
#3. Printables Club Members Also Get …
Surfnetkids Printables Club Members also get the following printables to use in the classroom, the computer lab, the school library, or to send home with students:
Gingerbread Houses Printable
Gingerbread Houses Wikipedia Printable
Christmas Crafts Printable
Christmas Songs Printable
*** Are you curious? Get your own ten-day trial membership:
https://www.surfnetkids.com/printables-club.htm
#4. Related Games
Gingerbread House Deco
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/gingerbread_house_decorating.htm
Gingerbread Man Dress Up
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/gingerbread_man_dress_up.htm
Pony Gingerbread Decoration
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/pony_gingerbread.htm
Super Gingerbread Man
https://www.surfnetkids.com/games/super_gingerbread_man.htm
#5. Surfing the Calendar
Walt Disney’s Birthday
Dec 5, 1901
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dec 5, 1955
Parthenon Day
Dec 5, 1997
Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution Ratified
Dec 6, 1865
Ira Gershwin’s Birthday
Dec 6, 1896
Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japan
Dec 7, 1941
John Lennon Murdered
Dec 8, 1980
Computer Mouse Developed
Dec 9, 1968
Emily Dickinson’s Birthday
Dec 10, 1830
Human Rights Day
Dec 10, 2013
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
Dec 10, 2013
#6. Quote of the Week
“We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.” ~~ Anonymous ~~ Read more inspirational quotes at Lightafire.com.
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