Parents Magazine Cover Kid Photo Contest Ends June 24, 2008, So Moms and Dads Need to Enter Their Pictures of Kids Soon.
The Parents magazine cover kid photo contest ends June 24, 2008, so moms and dads need to enter their pictures of kids very soon. The editors of Parents are looking for the cutest kid in America between six months and six years old to be the cover kid of the magazine’s November 2008 issue. Entries are being accepted at http://www.parents.com/app/sharemy/category.jsp?categoryId=cat15400001.
Visitors to the Contest website have been invited to make one recommendation per day during the Contest period for the entry the visitor feels should be featured on the cover of Parents magazine. While visitor recommendations will not be used as criteria in the judging of entries in any round, the editors of Parents want to thank all those who visited the site and made recommendations.
“We especially want to thank all the mommy bloggers who not only entered the Parents magazine cover kid photo contest themselves but also encouraged other moms and dads to enter pictures of kids as well,” says Judy Goldberg, Senior Editor of Parents magazine. “We’ve created a Web badge for these members of the parenting community to post on their mom blogs and dad blogs.”
The Parents magazine judges will review all of the entries and choose 20 semifinalists based on the criteria set forth in the Official Rules. Semifinalists will be asked to provide more pictures for consideration, and then five finalists will be selected to fly to New York City for a professional photo shoot from August 18-23, 2008. One of the photos from that shoot will be selected as the November cover shot.
To enter Parents magazine’s online baby photo contest, just upload a picture of your child to most gorgeous child of all will appear on the November 2008 cover of Parents.
Parents magazine has been America’s number one family magazine for more than 80 years. Since its inception in 1926, it has been a trusted source by every generation of parents. Currently, the magazine is a powerful community of 15.6 million readers devoted to supporting the efforts of parents, educators and other citizens who strive to make the world a better place for our children. Parents can be found online at http://www.parents.com/.
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June 20 2008 | Child Play and Toddlers | No Comments »
By Rachel Paxton
By the time your teen is in high school, you probably aren’t taking as many pictures of them as you used to. I have to keep reminding myself that I only have a couple of years left and no time to waste trying to capture fleeing teenage memories.
You might be thinking that I’m really organized to be already working on scrapbooking my daughter’s high school memories. To be honest, I have a shoe box full of pictures of my daughter waiting for me to get to someday.
But if I wait until “someday” to continue taking pictures because I already have so many pictures I haven’t done anything with, then my daughter’s teenage years will come and go while I try to catch up.
I don’t want to chronicle every detail of my daughter’s life (nor would she want me to!), but I was trying to think of some memories that she might want to laugh about and maybe even treasure someday. So how do you do that without ending up with pages and pages of memories?
I decided to do two large (12×12) pages (facing each other in the album) for each year of high school. I will challenge myself to use this space creatively to tell the story of each year. When I started thinking of all the the possibilities, it really inspired me to start getting organized and collecting some great memories. And don’t limit yourself to just photographs, your scrapbook pages can really be accentuated by other types of memories. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Photograph Ideas:
- High School Dances
- First Date/Boyfriend
- School Building
- Church Events/Retreats
- Braces (the day they’re removed)
- Hair Styles
- Clothing Fads
- Learning to Drive
- First Job
- First Car
- Best Friends
- School Plays/Concerts
- Family Vacations
- Favorite Family Pets
- Babysitting
- Sports/Band/Cheerleading
- Musical Instrument Practice
Other:
- CD Covers (scanned)
- Favorite Song Lyrics
- Drivers’ Permit
- First Pay Stub
- Programs from Play/Concerts
- College Brochures
- School Newspapers
- ASB Card
- Awards/Certificates
- Ticket Stubs (concert, movie, sporting events)
- Report Cards
You can be creative when you’re arranging your layouts. Don’t be afraid to cut pictures down or cut out portions of play programs or school newspapers. Just cut out enough to accentuate the other items on the page. You will create the overall effect from the entire page, not necessarily from an individual item.
Have fun and don’t worry if you don’t get it done all at one time. I figure if I can do one every summer for the previous school year, by the time she finishes high school (she’s a freshman this year), all of her high school memories will be recorded in the family archives.
About The Author
Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. For more
inspirational articles and tips for everyday living, visit her
web sites at http://www.creativehomemaking.com and
http://www.crafty-moms.com
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May 20 2008 | Teens | No Comments »
Finding an easy mother’s day craft for toddlers is not always that easy. I know that most people consider making bookmarks rather boring but, we must keep in mind that the toddlers probably haven’t made any yet, so for them, making a bookmark for mom is new. This easy bookmark craft is also a fun way to teach the little ones what happens when different colors are mixed.
Remember, this craft for toddlers needs to be done under adult supervision and the little ones will need help with some of the steps.
This is what you will need for this mother’s day craft:
- A small piece of white poster paper
- A decorative pair of craft scissors (called zigzag scissors by some)
- 4 Colors of thin watercolors (you can find watercolors powder to make these at any crafts store)
- A medicine dropper
- Thin ribbon in a color of your choice
- A punch to make a hole for the ribbon
Method for this mother’s day craft:
- With your decorative scissors cut a piece of your poster paper to the required size for a bookmark. (Bookmarks do not always have to be the well known size, I have a very pretty one that my granddaughter made that is quite big and it is beautiful. A bigger bookmark also gives you more space to work with.)
- Now you have to splatter a little bit of clean water on your bookmark. (Not too much because we do not want the bookmark to become too soggy!)
- Draw one of the colors, of your paint, up into the medicine dropper and drip the paint on different places on the bookmark.
- Wash the medicine dropper and repeat the procedure with the other the other three colors.
- You will notice that the colors will flow a little and where they mix the colors will change depending on the colors you used. For the little ones it may be a good idea to use the primary colors.
- Keep an eye on the kids so that they do not get over exited and use too much water and paint, as the bookmark will then become very soggy and the end result will not be satisfactory.
- Let your bookmark dry completely.
- Punch a hole in the bottom of the bookmark and thread the ribbon through the hole.
- Make a not in the ribbon to keep it in place.
Kids really love doing crafts that can be used in some way. With this mother’s day craft for toddlers they make a gift for mom that she will be able to use for many, many years to come. I hope you and your toddler will enjoy this easy mother’s day craft for toddlers.
By Magriet Du Plessis
Get more fun and easy mother’s day crafts at Magriet’s site Fun Kids Crafts at http://www.kidscrafts.topknacks.com/documents/mothersdaykidscrafts.html There is a fun one at Magriet Recommends http://www.our-crazy-world.com/documents/easycraftsforkids.html If you are looking for fun and easy Bible crafts you can visit http://www.squidoo.com/biblecraftsforkids
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