Dress United T-Shirt Review

I was recently given the chance to review a product from a t-shirt company. Dress United allows you to go onto their website and pick between unisex t-shirts, hoodies, woman's girly or long sleeve t-shirts and sweat shirts. These shirts are great for family reunions, bachelorette parties, team sports, or even just because! I was able to go onto their website and make a shirt. Because I am going to a homeschooling convention in May, I wanted something I could wear to help promote my homeschooling blog. I chose a plain black shirt with white lettering.

On the front of the shirt, I put:

Homeschooling...

because we can!

On the back I posted my homeschooling blog information!

 

This shirt is made great! I have already worn it a couple of times and washed it and it still looks great! No fading or letters cracking!

On their Dress United website they have tons of lettering to choose from, colors of shirts/sweaters/hoodies, and clipart to use as well. You can also choose the type of t-shirt you want to use: Glidan Ultra Cotton, Hanes or American Apparel.

 

I absolutely love their site and product. Their site was very easy to use! Their product I would give 5 stars! It turned out just the way it showed it on their website! I am very impressed! I look forward to sharing where I got my shirt too in May at the convention!

 

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Would you like to order from them? If so I have a coupon code for you for 30% off!

Just go HERE and enter to coupon code: BLOG30OFF4U

p.s. United States gets FREE SHIPPING!!!

 * I was given a free shirt in exchange for my honest opinion of this product!

 

Homeschooling books!

This past weekend Monster and I went to Houston to visit my Mom, Sister and my sisters twins. While we were there we went over to Garden Ridge. I haven't been to Garden Ridge to actually go shopping in awhile. I just don't ever think about that place really. Now when you think of Garden Ridge you think of things for outside your home. I think of patio furniture, garden decorations, lawn items. But they have really expanded what they sell. My favorite part is they have books for REALLY, REALLY cheap!!! They have a ton of children's books which is one of my favorite things! In their selection, they have a great selection of learning books. My mom got Monster some great books, two which are dry erase.

These are all things we are working on with Monster too!

 

This book I bought! 365 things to make and do! And for only $10!! It has some really great ideas too!!

 

I know these aren't books but I wanted to show them off too! I had no clue Garden Ridge had things like these! They are Red and Orange! (They look dull here but I think it is just the lighting). I want to use them in Monsters room somehow when we put together the Superhero room for him!

Summer is coming...

Are you ready for Summer? I know I am! I strongly dislike being cold in any way, so I can not wait for it to be warm. Here in Texas we have hot summers. I was browsing Pinterest and found tons of fun activities for kids this summer. I wanted to share them on here in case you are one of the smart people who never got sucked into joining Pinterest ( It sucks you in and you can lose hours off your day! lol).

This has got to be my favorite. I can not wait to try this during the summer. Since we live in Texas and like I said it gets HOT! I am going to try setting this outside and letting it melt that way. It will be a fun experiment to do with Monster as well as some awesome art work to hang up!

The actual photo and link

 

 

Another fun project to do in the heat! Coloring on rocks! If it is hot enough where you live then the crayon wax will melt on the rocks! I need to find some big rocks like these though!

Where I got this

 

 

I love this idea! Everyone knows about melting crayons to  make crayon shapes, but I never thought to use them to make a candle! I think this summer we may be using a ton of crayons for projects! This would be a great experiment to see how long it takes the crayons to melt out in the heat!

This awesome idea came from here!

 

Well there are three fun summer activities! I will share more as I find them!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blokus Game! (Review)

 

For Monster's 6th birthday we got him this game from Mattel called junior Blokus! Monster loves games that challenge him. I found this game at Target and thought it would be perfect for him. We have played this game several times over the last month and he loves it. This game is very simple to set out. It has the board and each player has a set of pieces. We keep ours in ziplock baggies so they are all over the box. Each player starts on a small circle on the white board. That is there starting point. You can not touch side by side of same colors just the tips of the corners. The object is to use all your pieces or be the player with the least pieces left at the end of the game! If you look at the pictures you can see that as your pieces connect you can cross over into the other players color as long as your pieces corners always touch! We have gotten down to each having just a few pieces left! It is challenging and very fun. It keeps your brain thinking too! You can't really set up a plan of where you will go next because you don't know where the other player will go! Monster usually picks randomly while I start with the bigger ones then fit in the smaller pieces!

 

 

One thing I really just love about this game is it came with ten mini games. They are sheets and you set the board up according to the sheet. Then you use the pieces it tells you at the bottom to connect the green pieces again only letting the corners touch one another! I think this is awesome to add to this game! I hope they come out with more sheets to purchase because we are going through the ten they have in the game and I think this would be a great thing to use for homeschooling. It can be a quiet time activity or for Monster his morning challenge! I really hope they come out with more sheets otherwise I might have to be making up my own!

I overall think this is a great games for kids! They also have an adult version of this game with more colors and pieces and more shapes. We don't have it but have played it and it is just as fun! It is on our list of games to get next!

 

Junior Blokus is recommended for ages 5+

It is a 2 player game

Kids and adults can have fun playing this game!

 

* I was in no way asked to write this review or compensated for this review! I just really liked this product and wanted to share it with you!

 

 

 

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The Storymatic Kid Game & Review

I was recently given the chance to review a very fun game from Imagine Toys with Monster! We got the game, Storymatic Kids, in the mail and were very eager to play.

One of the first things I noticed about this game is there are many ways to play this game!

 

1.  You can use this as a writing prompt for your child.

•         I love this because for me this would be great to use for our homeschooling journal time. There are several cards and you can change them up and never have the same writing topic! It gives the child freedom to express their creativness. Monster is at the age right now where this is a little harder for him. He is just starting to write full sentences. So we used this the best we could and I helped him with some of his writing!

    2. You can use this game for art. How fun!

• You could give your child a topic from the card and let them create a picture! Your child can use the cards to create a picture or an item that goes with the topic. For example: Someone with a funny name (Yellow card) A person who says yes to everything (Yellow card) got a second prize (Blue card). So your child could draw a picture of this scene or they could even create a award for this! I love to let Monster create what he feels is the perfect art for the cards!

   

On this one (above) Monster got racecar driver (Yellow card) someone that has been to the moon (Yellow card) and umbrella. So Monster drew a picture of a racecar driver (and his race track) on the moon, holding an umbrella! 

On this one Monster got a WILD CARD that told him to set his story on the farm (Yellow card) Ghost (Yellow card) and Smoke (Blue card). In the picture you can see that Monster drew a barn, a pig, some grass and flowers. If you look in the left top corner you can see the "friendly" ghost and there is smoke coming out of the barn! Monster said the ghost was going to get the animals out!

This is one of my favorite ways to use the game because I love seeing what Monster can come up with in his drawings!

   3. Third, you could use the cards for active storytelling.I mean what kid doesn't like to tell stories!

• Monster loves to create stories! I am told at school he loves to tell his teacher stories. I felt this one would be great for Monster to help keep his imagination going! Monster drew his three cards and got: Someone with a strange walk (Yellow card) A daydreamer (Yellow card) and  Fortune cookie ( Blue card).Here is the story that Monster came up with:

" One day a sad boy was walking home from school and he had a strange walk. The boy saw a fortune cookie on the road so he picked it up. He opened the fortune cookie and saw his fortune. The boy was very happy because it said his strange walk would go away! The boy began to walk home and saw his strange walk went away! Then he shook his head and knew he was having  daydream. The boy was still happy because he saw what it would be like to not have a strange walk. "

I am hoping as he gets older his stories will become more elborate, however he is six now and for six that is pretty good in my opinion!

 

For this game there are only two rules! Easy right!

1. Your main character should change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. And it doesn't have to be a big change! Notice in Monster's story the only change was the boys strange walk went away then came back but the boys emotions changed! He went from sad to happy!

2. You must keep your main character alive!

 

This would also be a very fun game to play in a group setting. You could start the game off with two yellow and a blue card and start the story. Then the next child picks a blue card and uses that card to add to the story line! And so on! We have not had a chance to try it out in a group setting yet but we will the next time we have friends over!

 

They also give you 20 blank cards to add your own! In the box comes a little booklet and that booklet gives you so many ideas on how to create with the cards! This is a game that will never get boring! Plus, the cards will always be different so no creating the same story twice! How awesome is that!

 

We loved this game! I will tell everyone how great and entertaining this game really is! I was very impressed with how many ways there are to play so your child is always creating something new!  It is great for kids ages 5+

 

Storymatic Kids is $29.95 on their website! A great price for a game you can use in so many ways!

 

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My baby is 6!!

Happy 6th Birthday to my crazy little Monster! We love you so much!