Monkey’s Book of Opposite was created by Ashley Wyse for Children’s Hospital.  Ashley used Monkey from some of the other books on this site to create a learning aid that explores opposites.  The concepts in the book are those that children with speech needs struggle most with.

High Five Ashley!  You are awesome!

Monkey and Friends: Opposites

FYI:  It’s Ashely’s work, so I won’t modify it.  It’s in the PowerPoint 2007 format for Windows.  To complete the book you will need a bit of rough material to cut a circle from, a feather, and a popsicle stick in addition to the laminate, Velcro, paper and ink needed for the other books.

Here are some photos of the one we used in speech therapy today:

I love that little Monkey.

Here’s the links to all the Monkey Business on this site at the moment:

Books by me:

Why Monkey Why?

What Monkey?

Where Monkey?

Books by others:

Who Monkey? and When Monkey?

Monkey’s Opposites

Other Goodies:

Board maker Files for Monkey (by Candace)

Monkey Preposition Fan

Two most awesome things today…

Tricia Rennea, who you know I am a devoted fan of, made some wicked cute upside down monkey door/closet type hanger things that are just fab.

and…

Brace Yourself…  ‘cause this is wicked…

Salazad has some of the most interesting paper toys I’ve ever seen.  They are graphically brilliant, beautifully design, fairly easy to construct, and they are FASCINATING.  There are Hindu and Bali gods, Sundanese characters, and all sorts of other interesting figures that I don’t fully understand.  I can wait to start researching and making some of these!  Words really aren’t going to do them justice.  You have to go look.  Just look at them!

Is it just me, or do children become nearly impossible to entertain once school sets them free for the summer?

A ride in the car or lunch out just doesn’t seem to be doing the trick by themselves.  So, I spent the day looking for things to make car trips and dinners out a bit more bearable.

So here’s a few I like…

Family Fun has a great collection of games that you can print out and take with you.  There’s matching, memory games, puzzles, word finds, mazes and quizzes.  They come in lots of different themes, but for sometimes I think the people who select the images for the memory games are a little off kilter.  Like the back to school one has pictures of carrots and pasta.  I just don’t get it.  It’s a Disney production, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.  I know I’ve posted this site before, but they update it quite a bit.  And they have a good newsletter.  Just sayin’. 

Mom’s Minivan has a great version of the travel favorite, Road Bingo.  They also have tic-tac-to and battleship.  A game of battleship kills just enough time for your food to be served when you’re eating out.  It’s kind of a strange site, like one of those paid Mommy Blogger sites with freebies and other weirdness.  But, the printable are cute and they did make a good point about putting the print outs in Ziploc bags and using dry erase markers.

Here’s another great printable road board game set.  It involves you owning a dry erase board and magnetic strips or printable magnetic paper.  It’s cool looking.  I’d make it if I thought my son would play with it more than once.  But to be honest, I’m feeling a little too much like an underachiever to do make it.  Oh, and I just noticed that it too, is from Disney.  What’s with me and Disney printables today? 

This printable paper city made by Joel (Joel, did I tell you how sexy-good this is?  It’s wonderful!) would be great for restaurants because it could be popped up and folded down quickly.  Poke around his blog because there’s also cars and a helicopter to go with this.  But, that’s not the coolest  thing on his blog….

These are….

Isn’t that just brilliant?  They are lovely paper circles that you (or your kids, if you have to give them up) can build with. What a beautiful, simple design!  Why or why am I so cursed that I can’t think of clever, wonderful things like this?  It’s another of Joel’s printable toys and games.  Check out his suggestion for packaging them.  They look so awesome that they’d make a great printable gift for an office mate or nearly-almost friend.

I know I’ve mentioned Wee Wonderful paper dolls before, so I’m just going to bring up the fact that they’d be awesome restaurant or car trip diversions too.

Ok, so I hope that helps a few struggling caregivers out.  :) 

I can’t believe I haven’t posted since July!  That makes me a terrible, terrible person. 

This blog isn’t closed and nothing terrible has happened to me.  I decided to go back to school and I’m in mid-terms right now so I just haven’t had any time. 

I hope no one is angry.  :)  Oh!  And aside from school I’ve been doing glitter body art at events.  You can check that out at http://www.glitteratiarmy.com if you’re curious.

So basically I’m just a really, really busy girl!  If you have anything you’d like to see on the site let me know and I’ll get it up.  If you have something cool on YOUR website and you’d like a shout out let me know. 

This is amazing.  You see that?  That little computer game was made by programmer Billy Collins from Aven’s Corner.  Aven’s Corner was inspired by Billy’s son Aven, a delightful 3 year old boy who has Autism.  The games, crafts, and activities on this site are geared specifically to the skills and interests of small children with Autism.

Billy contacted me a while back to ask if he could use my printable emotions bingo game to create an interactive emotions game for his site.  I can’t tell you how thrilled that made me.  I’m always stunned and overjoyed when a reader adapts one of my ideas for their own child – even more so when they share that adaption with others.  Billy even went so far as to let me put the game on my site – making it the first non-printable game to grace this blog.

THANK YOU BILLY!

If you get a chance stop by Aven’s Corner and tell him how much he rocks!

Kind over Matter and their friends  have put together this wonderful daily affirmations printable.  I really love the idea and the affirmations are awesome.

The four files that comprise this set are spread over different blogs.  It’s like a scavenger hunt.  There are also files for making the cute scallop box and matching papers you see below.

Sometimes we need a little push to get our mind and hearts in the right place.  These would be perfect for doing just that.  They would also make an awesome gift.  Get them while you can.

I found some pretty stuff today that made me smile and thought I’d share.

Print a Day is sharing some charming stationery.  She’s got such an eye for design.  It should be criminal to be so talented.

I love Boxy Papercraft Toys, partly because they are quick to assemble and require little in the way of materials and partly because they are so beautifully and energetically illustrated that I can’t help but smile when I see them.  I’m seriously considering building all of them and pinning them to the wall all art-installation style.

Paper Crave bestows on us these great love stamp inspired printables.  There are flat cards, address labels, patterned paper, and some cute gift tags.  The gift tags would make perfect stickers.

Speaking of stickers (smooth transition, eh?) here’s a great tutorial for making your own stickers using flavored gelatin.  Sounds pretty kid friendly to me. 

Thank you Go Make Something for all the awesome free printable collage sheets.  You ROCK!

I might have mentioned these before, but Creature Comforts, is providing a wonderful free download of uber cute mini note sheets, library cards, and library card pocket templates.  I’m sure you can find more than one way to use those little pockets.

Stationery Style is a commercial site, but they have some nice looking card downloads.

Lotta Bruhn, fab graphic designer and altruistic sticker maker, has some of the cutest little space and animal themed sticker downloads I’ve ever seen.  I’m sure these little guys can become other forms of busy papery goodness as well.

Here is the stationery set that features the art print I put up earlier.  This set includes the following designs:

2 Note Papers
2 Note Cards
2 Envelopes
9 Gift Tags
3 Note Pad Sheets (To-Do list style)

As for the look and style… It’s kind of a swirly, curly, lyrical tree doodle in a cranberry red.  When you download the zip file you’ll find that the tree was titled “Tree of Contemplation.”  Sounds all deep right? That was the result of me not being able to figure out what to title the files since I have other tree related files on my computer.  Get it?  HA!  I’m hilarious.

Anyways, if you enjoy it—tell me about it. 

I love it when people send me things to post (even if I take FOREVER to post them!)  Candace sent me her versions of Who Monkey and When Monkey (the two remaining Monkey books that I swear I’ll get around to making one day) for me to share here.  THANK YOU CANDACE!!!  You are AWESOME!  She even used my cute little Monkey.  I love that Monkey and it’s great to see him travel all over the internets having various fun and adventures. 

These are in .pptx format.  That’s PowerPoint for the new Microsoft Office Suite (2007.)  I don’t like to mess with other people’s creations so I won’t be changing the file format.

I’ll still be making my own versions of these books, with a different focus on language than Candace used so you’ll have even more resources use. 

Who Monkey By CANDACE

When Monkey By CANDACE