Custom Silver Fingerprint Necklace Giveaway

I love keepsakes. There are so many ways to keep are memories alive, but this is one of my favourites!

Enter to WIN a Beautiful Custom Silver Fingerprint Necklace valued at $167!

 These fingerprint necklaces are made from YOUR fingerprints! Choose to get your lil ones, parents or someone you love! They are .999 fine silver (more pure than sterling). The winner will get two fingerprints for the necklace. A mold kit will get shipped to their home to take an impression.
Retail value of the 1 necklace with the 2 prints is $167!

  How to Enter The giveaway will run from 3/6 12:01 am EST - 3/13 11:59 pm EST. There are 2 mandatory entries (sign up for pinkEpromise emails via their website and to 'like' them on Facebook. The rest of the entries are optional).
Giveaway is open to US residents only. Enter via the Rafflecopter below. Good luck!!


a Rafflecopter giveaway  

About Our Sponsor

  pinkEpromise - We are original Etsy shop owners and our founder was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 33. The site was developed as a way to raise awareness and money for a special breast cancer foundation that directly helps patient healing with spiritual, mental, physical and emotional guidance while they receive their medical care. pinkEpromise will send 5% of every sale to The Healing Consciousness Foundation. So, we SAVE YOU money and YOU help save breast cancer patients! It is a win-win! Different vendors and artists will feature an item on our site for a very special price only available for pinkEpromise customers and only for a limited time. So, if you see something you like, buy it then because there is limited time and quantities for each feature! You can find pinkEpromise: Facebook pinkEpromise website Pinterest

Wordless Wednesday: Cooking With Dad

Mission Giveaway: Campus Books Pay Pal Giveaway

Books are expensive! We think that schooling is expensive with tuition, living costs, and then we still have to factor in the books. It all adds up. Our sponsor this week helps keeps those book costs managable. Plus, they are offering our readers a Pay Pal prize!

About Our Sponsor

CampusBookRentals.com rents textbooks to college students. The company was one of the first ever to offer "textbook rentals." They started renting textbooks from Alan Martin's garage in 2007. Since then, Campus Book Rentals has rented over one million textbooks to students at almost every college campus in the United States. Campus Book Rentals also offers a service called Rent Back. Rent Back is a brand new initiative that allows students to rent the textbooks they own - to other students. This is great because it can make them 2-4 times MORE money compared to what they can make with traditional buyback options! Instead of selling back their books at the end of the semester, they can offer them for rent to other students! The company also awards scholarships, and is currently contributing a portion of their rental proceeds to Operation Smile. With Campus Book Rentals renting textbooks makes sense, plain and simple!

The Prizes

 Winner Keeps: $50 PayPal Cash Winner Shares: $50 PayPal Cash

How to Enter

The Giveaway will open up on 3/5 12:01 am EST and Close on 3/8 at 11:59 pm EST.

Complete the mandatory entries on the Rafflecopter below.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Check out and Enter our Other Giveaways

Side note...It's not mandatory to enter all the giveaways at each blog. Those are just great bonus giveaways for you to enter. Mission Giveaway started with Madame Deals and her $100 story where with $100 several people received the help they needed. We are on a mission to help people help each other! We have gathered a group of bloggers that want to make a difference. Together we are Mission Giveaway! To ask about becoming a sponsor, please contact Amee or Dawn at madamedealsmedia@yahoo.com for details. Take a look at our Media Kit to see what Mission Giveaway has to offer. Are you a blogger that would like to participate in Mission Giveaway? Find out how you can join us. Find our official Terms and Conditions on the Madame Deals Media page.

Teaching Tuesdays: Printing

Since I am having requests, and appreciation for my teaching posts, I am going to continue this series. Last week I wrote about pre-reading, this week: Printing letters.
So, how do you teach a skill that you don't even have to think about how to do?

1. Wait until your child is ready. 
2. The most important thing for children learning anything is repetition  It may be boring, but the more they do it, the more it sticks.
3. Try to make it fun. If your child likes animals, have them trace a letter, and then colour, draw or paste animals on the page that start with that letter. 
4. Give them ownership of their work. Give them a binder and let them decorate it to keep their papers in, or a file in the filing cabinet. If they own it, they will want to succeed.
5. Praise them for their hard work. Each child needs to know they are doing a good job. Give them rewards like stickers for doing well and trying hard
6. Be patient. Rome wasn't built in a day, remember? 
7. Give constructive criticism. Don't get discouraged or be negative, but don't settle either. Bad habits formed now will last and be much harder to break later. Trust me. I know this from experience! 

Ok, so now the teaching. There are so many options that each work well on their own or combined. I like to mix it up, and keep things fun!

Copy Work 
You can buy curriculum, or even just buy some from the dollar store near you! We bought some Pre-School books for Little A, and I supplemented that with some books from Dollar Tree.
There are lots of free printable sheets on-line at Starfall.com This is how I taught my oldest 2 their printing. Worked great for us! I usually search for additional pictures of things that interest the kids to keep their attention.

Tracing
Most copy work has children trace the letters once or twice before they draw their own letters. There are many other tracing ideas you can do your self to mix it up.

• Draw in the sand or mud and have your child trace your letters with a stick, or on a foggy window.
• Tablets are great resources for teaching children to print. There are countless free and paid apps for this!
• Draw in the air and have your child copy you, or play guessing games

Rhymes, Stories and Songs
Kids remember silly songs and rhymes so much better than they do instructions and rules. When we teach our kids to write their names, we give them a way to remember. Check out the letter formation poems at Little Giraffes These are cute little poems that make it easy to describe how to draw a letter. Here is the A for example:
A - Pull down twice from the point to the top. Add a seat to view the apple crop.

a - First make a round apple to eat, then a slide for an ant when he's finished his treat!

Each poem is unique to the letter and touches on the phonetics. Bonus!
My husband was trying to teach Little A how to write the letter N. He was ready to scream because he couldn't describe it. After going through the N poem once, Little A got it! 

Nothing worth doing is easy, so keep with it!

$100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Who doesn't love Amazon? You can buy anything and everything! 

Welcome to the $100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

Hosted by Giveaway Promote.

Sponsored by Spend With Pennies

Spend With Pennies is your one stop for all things free and frugal.

In today’s economy, we need to stretch every dollar we can. Spend With Pennies helps make that simple by finding the most current deals, freebies and prizes for you every day!

We have teamed up with a great group of bloggers to bring you this fabulous giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card courtesy of Spend With Pennies.

---

Enter to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card.

We are so excited to bring you this giveaway. Good luck!

Complete the tasks below to earn entries into this giveaway.

Refer your friends using your unique link at the top of the Rafflecopter for even more chances to win.

One winner will be chosen at random from all valid entries.

Open in the United States.

Ends at 11:59pm EST on March 17th, 2013.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Bloggers, we'd love for you to join an awesome group giveaway event like this one! Sign up to be emailed about future events hosted by Giveaway Promote.

Groovebook iPhone Photo App

I love my iPhone. I love my children. I love sharing pictures of my children and looking at the pictures of my children. Memories! With my iPhone, I am able to take pictures anywhere and any time they do something cute. Ofcourse, it doesn't take long for those pictures to add up, and I never remember to print them out! What is a busy mom to do? 

Problem solved! Grrovebook is a new free iPhone app that lets you select 100 of your photos and mails you a photo book of them for FREE!! 

This is a service I would happily pay for. Free is always better, right? Check out how it works here

All you have to pay is $2.99 shipping, but wait. It gets better!                                                           Use code MEANDMYHANDFULGROOVE for your first book  to be shipped for free! You will need to use a credit card to get started, but there will be no charge for your first book. If you don't love it, cancel at anytime! This is an amazing deal. Make sure you check it out.

Groovebook is available on iTunes and the Google Play market. Don't forget to use the code MEANDMYHANDFULGROOVE for your first book to be shipped for free!

Kindle Fire Giveaway

Welcome to the Four Littles Media Kindle Fire Giveaway!

Hosted by: My Four Littles and Four Littles Media

Cohosted by: 

Everything Mommyhood, Mommy's Craft Obsession, Pink Ninja Blog, A Medic's World, 

Stay a Stay at Home Mom, Monica's Rants, Raves, and Reviews, Shaping Up to Be a Mom, 

Writing As Art, An Ordinary Housewife, Me and My Handful, The Stuff of Success, 

This Mama Loves Her Bargains, Krazy Coupon Club, Coupons With Q, Boy Oh Boys, 

My Devotional Thoughts, and Simply Sherryl 

Are you fired up? We are giving away a Kindle Fire to one lucky reader! It could be you.....but you can't win if you don't enter........

Prize: Kindle Fire from Amazon.com

This giveaway is open to those ages 18 and up in the United States. The giveaway will end 12am EST on April 1, 2013. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email announcement. All entries will be verified. The only entry required is the first one, completing extra entries only increase your chances of winning.

Loading Entry-Form...

...

This giveaway is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. Please email contactus@myfourlittles.com with any questions or concerns. Disclosure: I received no compensation for this post. Me And My Handful is not responsible for prize fulfilment  My opinions are my own and may differ from yours.