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Jan Brett’s Website – Over 4000 Fun Activities

Jan Brett is a well known children’s author and illustrator. Her artwork is beautiful and unique. She shares it for free on her website, www.janbrett.com, with over four thousand pages of activities, coloring pages, drawing instructions, games, and projects that are sure to educate and entertain children for hours. You can view video instructions for drawing hedgehogs, polar bears, lions, elephants, chickens, bunnies, and even gingerbread babies. You’ll even find some recipes, and craft instructions. Online games include a concentration game, a scrambler, and interactive coloring pages. My favorites though are the chance to decorate a Christmas tree and gingerbread … Continue reading →

More Coloring Pages

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If you have small children, you are probably familiar with the idea of a Sunday bag. Like most parents, we carry a canvas bag to church with appropriate quiet activities for our kids. One of my kids’ favorite activities is the coloring book I “make” by printing out pictures from the Friend. I blogged on this idea back in December, so I won’t repeat myself. However, while I was looking for something online a few weeks back, I found a great website I would love to share with you. I have found it to be very helpful, and I think … Continue reading →

Saving an entire Web page for offline viewing

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Saving an entire Web page, graphics, links and all, is a really simple process. Yesterday, we discussed how to save portions of text and graphics from Web pages. Today, we’ll cover how to save complete, individual Web pages using Microsoft Internet Explorer. I’ll discuss two popular formats that you can use to save Web pages: HTML and MHTML. Saving HMTL files Saving Web pages is similar to saving any other type of file. One way to save an entire Web page is to save the actual programming code, so the page can be recreated on your computer without need for … Continue reading →

Saving and printing text from Web pages

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Have you ever needed to save a few lines of text from a Web site? Or have you wanted to save an entire Web page for later viewing? Saving text and Web pages can be useful after you’ve made an online purchase, for example, and want to save your transaction ID or the digital receipt. There are numerous ways to save text and graphics from Web sites and I’ll show you a couple of the quick ways today. Tomorrow, we’ll discuss how to save Web pages in their entirety for later viewing. Copy and Paste Copying and pasting is a … Continue reading →

Frame-tastic Scrapping

The world of digital scrapbooking can be overwhelming to navigate, especially if you are not tech savvy. When I first experimented with digital scrapbooking I figured I would select my photos, place them in pretty pre-fabricated frames, add them to my layouts, and go about my merry way. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that easy. I can’t tell you how much time, energy and money I’ve spent learning from my mistakes, namely ones that involved printing free digital frames. For starters, there are an endless number of websites that offer printable scrapbook frames at no charge. The catch is finding one that … Continue reading →

More Ways to Save with Digital Scrapbooking

I wonder how long it will take before traditional scrapping becomes a thing of the past? It seems every scrapper and her sister is converting to digital scrapbooking. The Internet is crammed with thousands of sites that make scrapping online a cheap and easy hobby. Today I visited more than a dozens random digital scrapbooking sites and found that every single one offered some type of scrapbook item for free, from page kits to embellishments. They are yours for the taking—free of charge—provided you know how to download them. The sites are even trying to win over die hard traditionalists. … Continue reading →

Digitage Heritage Scrapbooks

A few weeks ago I posted about scrapbooking your old family photos and memorabilia. Today I want to also mention the idea of creating a digital heritage scrapbook (also called a digital family tree or digital genealogy scrapbook). A digital scrapbook is made on a computer using an image editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop or Coral Paint Shop. Items that can be made into a digital scrapbook include vintage family photographs, old letters, vital records, and heirlooms. Before you begin, you will need to convert your photos and memorabilia into a digital format by scanning them into your computer. … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Resource of the Day: 10/02-03/07

Welcome to another edition of homeschooling resource of the day. As always, if you see something you want changed, you have something you would like added, or know of something that should be featured please feel free to leave me a comment. My apologies for missing a couple days there. My niece is finally getting to head back home, so it’s been a hectic couple of days. I will try my hardest not to let it happen again. Today’s website is Learning Page.com. Learning Page is full of great add-ons, supplements, or whole units depending on what you are looking … Continue reading →