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5 free Mother's Day printables

10/5/2013

Looking for last minute Mother's Day printables? The following ideas can be downloaded and printed ready to create a highlight of Mother's Day for the mothers in your church family and your kidmin.
1. Mother's Day cards... ready to be downloaded in either colour or black/white format. See here
2. Mother's Day coupons ....Print these coupons ready for the kids to cut out and assemble into a special book for Mum... a great ideas from 'I should be mopping the floor.'
3. Colouring-in page for Mother's Day... find it here and download
4. Tags and labels for Mother's Day ready to add to beautiful cupcakes or bouquets. Find them here....
5. Mother's Day bookmarks.. ready to print and decorate. These would be even better with a great book to accompany them. see here.

If you still can't find just what you're looking for, you may like to check out the wonderful list of Mother's Day ideas here on Pinterest.

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A gift for Mother's Day- from your kids church

8/5/2013

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Highlight Mother's Day, this year, with a special Chocolate Rose for each mother. Following our kids' item during the worship service, the children will be handing out these roses to every mother and lady in our church family. They are quite simple to make- see the instructions below and the slideshow of images.

MATERIALS- per rose:
* 8 x 10cm circles of tissue paper. (You can use all the same colour or a mix of colours.)
*1/2 length of florist wire (#20)
* small chocolate
* 12cm square of clear cellophane
* florist tape
* 50cm length of ribbon (per rose)

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Wrap the square of cellophane tightly around the chocolate and secure by twisting the end of the florist wire around the base of the chocolate. It should look like a chocolate ball on the end of a wire.
2. Holding the circles of tissue together, cut 2 small slits in the centre.
3. Gently push the wire of the chocolate and cellophane ends through the slits in the tissue circles.
4. Holding the tissue circles firmly around the chocolate, start winding the florist tape around the tissue circles, cellophane ends and wire and continue along the length of wire to the end.
5. Gently crush the tissue circles around the chocolate to give it a rose-like shape.
6. Tie a ribbon bow around the wire beneath the rose.
7. Finished.. ready to give out on Sunday!

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Vision dinner presentation ideas for your kidmin

6/5/2013

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Vision- animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action. Our church Vision Dinner was held last Friday evening.. a time when we could consider: 'Who are we? Where is God leading us as a church and in our ministry?'

It gave us the opportunity to highlight our focus on Family Ministry, explain more about our programs and encourage the church family to visit our Tweedkids Facebook page.

We used a number of resources in preparation for our special Vision Dinner event and you may find them helpful yourself.
First, I found a great powerpoint presentation template at Graphicriver that was so easy to add text and images for a dynamic presentation. They do charge a few dollars for these templates but, for a special event, it's really worth it in terms of quality and time. You can find more here...
I also used Animoto to create a short clip for our TweedKids and you can check it out below. I've mentioned Animoto before and you might like to read more about this online program here...
I created some great littleBox Brownie cameras to add to the tables since a 'Vision Dinner gives a picture of what lies ahead.' I added the wording to the design before printing the boxes and assembling them. The design cost $4 to download but again, worth it.. it was a great little focus point for the dinner and I filled the cameras with M&Ms.

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How to add text to images and more..

2/5/2013

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For some basic information about how to get started with Pixlr, check out the clip of How to Use Pixlr tutorial.

There's no escaping it- we're a visual generation. Forget quotes like, 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Today, headlines, blogs, anything with text requires an image or it's unlikely to be read.

So images, and working with them, is likely to be a big part of your life and work with kids ministry. You probably source, format and use images for your kidmin Facebook page, your Pinterest boards, your newsletters, your announcement slides and more.

Previously, I've used Powerpoint or Publisher for most of this type of work but no longer. I've discovered pixlr.com. What a great little site! This is the graphic I worked on for our church Vision Dinner. If you haven't tried it, then I'd encourage you to check it out here..

On the first page of pixlr.com, choose the Express option. It give you plenty of tools to work with but it's not too difficult to use.

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Start your kids' program with a free welcome motion loop

1/5/2013

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WorshipHouseKids have made a welcome motion loop available -free. Download it now!

Take a few moments, too, check out some great clips for Mother's Day from WorshipHouseMedia and Sermonspice.
Just click on the image for a link through to the clip. You'll find a countdown, a simple, bright highlight of the important roles of mothers as well as others that pull on the heart-strings.
Take a look.. and let us know others that you enjoy.

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