Olympic Kids Activities – The All Things Family Blog Carnival

Welcome to the February 9, 2010 edition of all things family. This is a brand new weekly blog carnival that a few friends and I have started to support each other and additional great family-friendly websites. If you need a little traffic and link love, please submit your own posts for future editions!

This week we are highlighting posts for the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics! Yay!

Olympic Kids Activities

Randa Clay presents Ice Skating Color by Number Coloring Sheet | FreeStuff4Kids posted at Free Stuff 4 Kids, saying, “Ice Skating is the best part of the winter Olympics!”

Heather Mann presents Make a Velcro Catch Ball Game posted at Dollar Store Crafts, saying, “Here’s a fun game to play inside on a rainy day – or stage your own family Olympics.”

Char Polanosky presents Winter Olympic Sports Word Search posted at Printables for Kids – free word search puzzles, coloring pages, and other activities, saying, “Get the kids involved in all the Olympic fun with a Word Search and keep track of the medal winners with your own medal count chart.”

Char Polanosky presents Printable Training Journal posted at Sports Girls Play | Tips and resources for raising a happy, healthy athlete, saying, “Got Olympic fever? Start your own training and track your efforts with our free printable training journal pages.”

Linette G. presents Winter Olympic Mascot Cupcakes~ Quatchi The Sasquatch posted at The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review, saying, “I saw the adorable mascots for the Vancouver Winter Olympics and knew I had to make something with them.”

TipJunkie presents Olympic Activities for Kids, saying .. well, she didn’t say anything because I added this great post to the carnival myself!

Shannon Weidemann presents Host a Gymnastics Birthday Party posted at PartyElf.

Pamela Jorrick presents Good Sports? posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.

And here at the Woo! Jr. Kids Activities Network, check out these Olympics crafts, Olympics coloring pages, and this free Olympics bingo game!

General Humor

Paul Reyes-Fournier presents Homer Simpson is a Hero posted at coupledumb.com, saying, “CoupleDumb thinks that Homer Simpson is a hero. They need to meet more people.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents My New Policy posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Encouraging Parental Sanity

Mike King presents 100 Ways to Serve Others posted at Learn This, saying, “Families stay strong through serving each other and serving others. This list will help to show ways to do this.”

Quirky Momma presents Sanity Saving Tips for Moving with Kids posted at quirkymomma.com, saying, “I love these tips on how to move, and keep your sanity, with young kids underfoot!”

Julie presents Parenting and Surviving the First Boyfriend/Girlfriend posted at More4kids.

Condo Blues presents Going Green: What Happens When Your Family Doesn’t Agree? posted at Condo Blues.

Useful Family Resources

Leah Aharoni presents Game Theory Exercises for Children posted at Ingathered.

TSW presents Managing Our Family Finances During A Jobless Recovery posted at The Smarter Wallet.

Athena Goodlight presents How to Plan a Successful Vacation posted at Triond, saying, “Every trip requires many decisions. Where shall we go? Shall we take the children? Do we travel by car, by plane, or by train? Sometimes, reaching these decisions can be painstaking; and if either the husband or wife gives in, and the decision turns out badly, the temptation to say “I told you so!” is almost irresistible.”

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