Free Printables for Holiday Shopping plus some tips for buying for special needs kiddos!

It might be a little late in the game for these goodies but I needed to make some for my Holiday Planner anyway and I figured I’d share them here just in case anyone else could use them. They really aren’t anything fancy but I did try to make a couple of festive options to help you feel a little more in the Christmas spirit.

We plan to start implementing the 3 or possibly 4 gift rule in our home because things are just so expensive and our kiddos really have everything they need and a lot of what they want so we don’t want them asking for tons of things that they won’t or can’t use. We really want them to stay focused on the reason for the season … we are dedicating these weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas for an Advent Study. We also want them to think about gifts and appreciate the time, thought, and money that goes into each gift they receive and not what they expect to find under the tree.

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Getting Ready for the Holidays Week 7 (The Week After Thanksgiving)

Thanksgiving is over but there’s no time to rest yet as the real preparations are beginning for the holidays! One of the biggest things we need to do is to take time to sit down and evaluate how our Thanksgiving was. What was everyone’s favorite part? Was there anything that didn’t work well? Do you need to set up a rotating schedule to have dinner at other family member’s homes? (Odd year here, Even year there, or every 3rd, 4th, year?) Would it be better to have a potluck-style meal where everyone brings something? Was there anything you would like to do differently? Start now for your planning for next year so you don’t forget these ‘little things’! We will also be getting all of our Fall decor ready to be put away next week so we can start pulling out the Christmas decor.

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The Thanksgiving that I broke the oven!

We pray that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and that you didn’t go over budget with the Black Friday spending. We had a beautiful day and we were so blessed to have family and friends to enjoy it with.

The kids did a lot of work to help with our Thanksgiving dinner and preparations. We counted it as Life Skills and they were happy that it wasn’t ‘bookwork’. They have asked if we can have more lessons like this.

The weeks before Thanksgiving the kids helped to plan out the menu, check the pantry for supplies, and help order the groceries. Then they helped to organize the recipes and pull out the dishes and serving trays that would be needed. They did a pretty good job as you will see in the pictures below.

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Fall Gardening 2023

Our Fall garden is doing so well and I can’t believe I’ve never tried this before. We recently harvested our first squash from the Fall garden and we are eagerly anticipating more!

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FREE! FREE! Links to FREE Printables!

I just realized that I probably need to have a page with all the FREE printables listed to make things easier for myself and others. I’ll try to get a tab on the menu soon too! Not all of these links are to products on my site, so they may not be available in the future.

Scroll DOWN to access the FULL library or click a link below for specific printables.

Bible Studies and Devotionals

Homeschool Resources

Keeper of the Home

Other Freebies

Here are the links to the printables we have added to our site:

Homeschool:

Printables from our 2021-2022 Crisis Homeschooling Year

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daily-routines

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Art

Free Picture Study Resources

Bible

Ten Commandments Copywork

 Scripture Cards and box system found for FREE on the Simply Charlotte Mason site.

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