Holiday Giveaway Day 1

Welcome to my first annual Five Days of Holiday Giveaways!  Be sure to read allll the way to the end for an awesome contest opportunity!  First of all, are you diggin' how I decorated for the holidays? Who says snowmen and flip-flops were mutually exclusive? It's time to celebrate with a week of fun and freebies! First up is a cute math game called Reindeer Dash. It's amazing to me that I keep creating these math games. I h-a-t-e-d math for the longest time and now I'm fixated on making math fun for my kids. I guess I just want to be sure they don't turn into a math-phobe like me! So, enough with the rambling. In this game, the kids roll three dice and first identify the two highest numbers. They add those numbers and then subtract the remaining number. So, if they roll a 6,4 and 5 they would add 6+5, then subtract the 4 and their answer would be 3. They would then cover the 3 on their side of the board. You have no idea how long it took me to figure out the possible answers for this game. Then when I was telling my friend my tale of woe and showing her all my scrap work, she rattled off the answers as if it was the alphabet. I need to be playing my own games apparently. Click on the pic to download the game. Hope you like it!

Here's a little crafty bonus for you to go along with the reindeer theme. These little glass jars and painted wooden reindeer heads were purchased at Michael's. The jar was $1 and the reindeer was about 39 cents. I added a brown scalloped circle (made with a paper punch), glued it to the lid and added some white polka-dots with a paint pen. Everything looks better dotted. Then I just typed "Rudolph's Red Nose Repair Kit" and used a circle punch to cut them out. Fill the jar with Red-Hots, add a little ribbon and ta-da! Quick, cute, inexpensive gift! Download the red nose labels {HERE}

And finally, drumroll please....

Here's the big contest announcement!  

I will give one lucky winner these four prizes*:

1. A year's worth of my Weekly Word Wizard Language Arts activities.

2. A year's worth of my Smartboard Calendar math files.

3. A year's worth of monthly writing prompt center task cards.

4. My Tasty Tuesday year-long writing program.

Notice the theme there? 4 YEAR-long resources for you! (if you're the lucky winner of course) Here's how to enter. I tried to keep it super simple. You don't need to click here, there and everywhere. Just leave a comment on THIS post to enter. I'd love to hear what you like about the blog or want to see more (or less) of or some such useful information, but if you just leave a comment that says, "I follow you" that counts too. There is one way to add a bonus entry. Pin my reindeer button down below to Pinterest or add it to your blog to spread the word of the giveaway days, then come back and leave another comment saying you did so. Simple enough, right?

Entries must be received by midnight EST on December 5, 2011. Winner will be announced here on December 6, 2011. *If those resources don't float your boat, you can pick other prizes of the same monetary value to fit your needs.

You can start entering the contest today and be sure to stop back every day from now until December 5th for new freebies!