Last week, I published this list of ideas for some fun activities to do with your kids. I have another set of them for you. I hope you enjoy!

• Cut pictures out of catalogs and glue onto paper
• Make finger puppets from toilet paper rolls. Draw faces and glue yarn on for hair. Use a sheet over a table for a puppet show.
• Use a long wrapping paper tube to make a slide for small cars, balls or other toys.
• Make a collage by gluing different kinds of beans, cereal, colored toothpicks, rice, foil, macaroni, etc. onto cardboard.

I would love to hear about some of the activities you used to do when you were young and the summer seemed long. Leave me a comment and share with us. Let’s share ideas!

1. Choose a location
2. Choose a date
3. Make sure the date works with the location
4. Select a theme or colors
5. Prepare guest list and gather mailing addresses
6. Plan refreshments and how much will be needed
7. Determine activities
8. Mail invitations with appropriate RSVP date
9. Shop for needed items
10. Bake or prepare refreshments
11. Clean house if the party is in your home
12. Decorate and set out refreshments
13. Prepare activities
14. Change clothes
15. Greet company
16. Have fun!

Don’t forget to delegate!

I shared some time ago a few ideas for activities for little ones. These are ideas that my own mother had written down on recipe cards for me when I was young! Click here to see my first post with some ideas.

• Finger paint with shaving cream on colored construction paper.
• Decorate a small clay pot. Plant flower seeds, nurture and watch them grow.
• Paint a fence or side of the house with a clean brush and a bucket of water.
• Make mud pies or mud stew with twigs, rocks and acorns

I’ll be back with a few more soon, so be on the look out!

This came out of a student book and was the ONLY whole wheat bread I could make.

1. Blend in glass measuring cup: 1/2 c. warm water, 2 T. yeast, 2 T. honey or sugar, 1 vitamin C tablet, crumbled.

2. In large mixing bowl w/wooden spoon, mix: 4 c. very hot – not boiling – water, 4 tsp. salt, 2/3 c. honey or sugar, 2/3 c. vegetable oil

3. Blend in: 6 c. whole wheat flour

4. Blend in order then turn out on lightly floured surface: Yeast mixture, 6 more cups of flour (white or whole wheat) (seeds may be added – about 1/2 c.)

5. Knead 5 to 10 minutes (great time for prayer!)

6. Place in greased bowl and turn to coat. Cover & let rise 1 1/2 hrs. or until doubles in size. Punch down, cover, and raise 45 minutes.

7. Punch down and grease pans.

8. Divide and shape into loaves.

9. Place in pans. Let rise 30 minutes.

10. Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes.

11. Turn out on sides to cool.

The term, “quiverful” is not in scripture. I had never heard anyone call themselves this until I hit the internet. I had read the book, A Full Quiver, but never thought of the term before. The quiver that God refers to in His Holy Scriptures when it talks about, “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them…” The quiver spoken of here is a warriors. Warriors’ quivers usually held about 80 arrows, versus a hunting quiver, which held about 5. Can any of us say we are “quiverful”?

Whether one is qf or not qf, whatever the interpretation of that is, it is not a salvation issue, so we cannot and should not ever judge another person’s closeness to God by how many children they have or don’t have.

I ask myself often, is my life given over to serving and honoring, and glorifying my Savior in all I do? Have I given every part of me to Him in complete sacrifice, not partial, because He is worthy of it all? It may not be in regards to having as many blessings as He chooses: It may be in regard to any area of my life. I could just as easily ask, “Have I given my eating habits to God?” “Have I given my children to God?” “Have I given my marriage to God?” “Do I spend my time wisely to things that glorify God and work towards leading others to the Kingdom?” “Are my thoughts His thoughts?” Once our hearts and minds are intent on pleasing our Lord, everything else will fall into place….if we let it. Our habits become His habits. Our children and marriage become His children and His marriage. Our time becomes His time. Our body becomes His body. Remember, we have been bought with a price. We already proved in the Garden of Eden that we cannot do things in our own power. We have none.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 – Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.