Jumpin-Beans

Kids are about to get out for the summer...  That means NO SCHOOLWORK!!! WHoooo Hoooo.. But, that doesn't mean you can not keep their brains in high gear!!!  No, I don't mean teaching them math and science at home, but you can do fun activities with puzzle books and more to engage in brain activity... and shhhhh... FUN!!!! If you don't have kids... or they are too young... or you are wanting to engage your brain.. Why not look at books for you?! We were sent a collection of "Puzzle Books" and I have really been enjoying them! The collection we were sent has a bit of everything for everyone!   We now have, The Complete Idiots Guide to Picture Puzzles, Volume 2. I really enjoyed this, as I love searching for things... I know that when the boys get here for the summer, they will love looking at this... I will admit, I wanted to grab my pencil to circle the differences and everything, but that would take the fun out of it for anyone else down the...

Remember me telling you about reading the books to the kids the other day? Well, another two books we were able to read were two new ones that are actually puzzle books! My Birdie and My Bunny are both by Jessie Ford and are great for little ones! With My Birdie, each page has a sentence that focuses in on an area of the birdie... With the corresponding page being the puzzle piece of that area.  Once you remove all the puzzle pieces (only 4) you put them together to have a picture of your birdie!   With the My Bunny book, each page tells you something that the bunny likes to do.  Yes, the opposite page on each of these shows the bunny enjoying what was just mentioned (as puzzle pieces) and once you put them together, you have a picture of the bunny you just read about! We loved this one as well, as it was interactive and it was just as fun taking the pieces out and putting them back in as it was reading it!  Broxton (and the kids i...