Articles of Faith Jeopardy

Articles of Faith Jeopardy was a lot of work to set up but really fun to play. Idea can be found here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/518758450798591323/

I am a little OCD when it comes to having things look nice and uniform as well as convenient and easy. I can't remember why, but it seemed like at the time I did this there were a couple problems with the instructions on the link and I ended up reworking part of it. If you have problems with the other instructions, you can always use what I ended up setting up:
answers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jQ1Q3dGxRZzl1QWM/edit?usp=sharing
numbers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jV2EwZVVFQTMzcUU/edit?usp=sharing
part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jTVZBTmhzanBFMkU/edit?usp=sharing
part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jWW8zRTFLeUxUaU0/edit?usp=sharing
part 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jV2xmUmZiS1RIYzA/edit?usp=sharing

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Gardening...

Every girl should know at least a little about growing their own food. I found a great website for kids and gardening and used the info I found to make little books for each of the girls. The talked about what makes good soil, when to plant what, how much to water, how much sunlight, how to know when things are ripe, etc. If we had done this activity in March I probably would have had them plant seeds. It is April, however, so I got some inexpensive starter plants and each girl got to plant it in a pot to take home. Let me tell you, girls love to play in the dirt…and so do certain grown ups.
The link to the website I got my info from is here:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/basics/index.cfm

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