Free "three great audio stories surrounding the birth of Jesus.

today;s Freebie of the Day: from those great Erskines is a set of "three great audio stories from the radio program GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, together telling the story of the events Each of these half hour audio dramatizations focus on a different aspect of the Nativity story — granted, with a bit of dramatic license — but all are excellent, thought-provoking tales that are largely grounded in the Bible narrative. Great listening in anticipation of Christmas Day."

Free Nativity Pop Up Card Project How-To

Valerie from Little Blots of Faith let us know about this great fun craft to do with our kids this week:

I think we'll use it for the Christmas cards we hand out in person, and it's great to go with other advent activities plus of course to make while listening to some of the "Stories from the Nativity" in the free ebook I mentioned in another post ealier today. :)

Click here to find out how to make this cute pop up card. (I love pop-ups, always have :) )

Nativity Pop Up Card

Free 30-Day Gizmo Kids Christian Devotional ebook download!

You can get this great colorful devotional by clicking here: Kids Devotions - Sunday School Lessons - Your New Journey with God - Superbook DailyDevotional: "Gizmo's Bible Adventures - a 30 day devotional created for kids and parents to enjoy together!

This devotional focuses on the foundational life principles presented within the Bible and presents them in a fun and entertaining way that children will look forward to completing each day.

Each daily devotion includes a Bible verse, a lesson to learn, fun activities like word search and matching puzzles and a daily prayer."

Free Full Version Adventure Video Game Today Only ExclusiveTotem Tribe: PC Download

Just click here to download it today and you get the full version to play free forever of the exclusive game "Totem Tribe." Free Games > Download and Play Today! | GameHouse: "GameHouse provides a free game that you can download and play free forever. The game is only available for one day free as a full version, if you want to later you can get a limited trial free version, but today if you download it's free forever.

This game is based on enchanted islands so has some magic in a "totem" kind of way. It's rated a top five stars and as an adventure.

• Unlimited Play
• 23 Locations to Explore
• Over 120 Quests and Puzzles
• Multiple Endings
• In-Game Tutorial

Lead your tribe to glory and bring peace to your island home in Totem Tribe, an amazing blend of adventure, hidden object, and strategy games and one of the most original experiences in casual gaming. Tetala Island was peaceful before a comet burned the sky and scorched the land. Help Aruku, leader of the Hawk Tribe, guide her people to prosperity and bring peace to this wonderful world. Travel through an enchanted group of islands on your search for six powerful animal totems and return them to the Cradle of the North. Advance your tribes technology and battle a mysterious and malevolent evil determined to stop your quest. Build and upgrade unique structures, add new tribe members, scout unexplored terrain, and more. The fate of the Hawk Tribe and their island home is in your hands. Begin the stunning adventure of Totem Tribe today.

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Totem Tribe Screenshots:

System Requirements

• Windows Vista/Windows XP/Windows 2000
• 500 MHz Pentium 3 or equivalent
• 128MB RAM
• DirectX 8.0

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2 Free Christmas Story Ebooks Including One on the Nativity

The Erskines are offering us 2 goodies for our Christmas celebrations today: Freebie of the Day: "Tales of the Nativity contains over two dozen classic stories, poems and readings based on Christ's birth, plus several tales of Christmas with a Christian outlook. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories contains the text of 20 classic holiday stories, legends and fables from the 1800s and 1900s especially chosen for reading aloud that the whole family will enjoy."

Free Bricks of Egypt Video Game Totally Free Today & Egypt Lesson Hints

"GameHouse provides a free game that you can download and play free forever. The game is only available for one day free." here:

Free Games > Download and Play Today! | GameHouse:

This might be great as an add-on for a study on Egypt in homeschool, as a fun reward to play upon completion and/or an incentive for good work. (See below and in others of my posts for more info on Egypt studies, including a free ebook on Egypt below!)

• Eight Themed Level Packs
• Rich Set of Bricks, Bonuses and Special Effects
• Three Difficulty Settings
• Beautiful Graphics and Atmospheric Music

Embark on a fantastic journey through an undiscovered Egyptian world of traps, lasers, fireballs and exciting brick-busting action. Beautiful graphics bring the ancient world to life, while mysterious challenges keep you on the edge of your seat. Plus, three unique difficulty settings mean anyone can play. Discover the strange secrets hidden in the Bricks of Egypt before they find you.

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Bricks of Egypt Screenshots: (Click to enlarge)

System Requirements

• Windows 2000/Windows 98/Windows ME/Windows XP
• 233 MHz Pentium or equivalent
• 32MB RAM
• DirectX 3.0
• If you miss the free day, you can also download a free limited trial version on other days here:http://www.gamehouse.com/download-games/bricks-of-egypt
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• You'll hear ALL about our Egypt studies in more posts later (including how we use the following three items Noah will be getting in his stocking this year (Don't tell!) :)
• These will make great little rewards for future work:
• These'll be great for when we do more on heirogplyphics:
• Here are some hints and some of the things we've done on Egypt so far:
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• We've studied about Moses' time in Egypt, including making this mini book herehttp://www.homeschoolshare.com/docs32465/Ancient%20Egypt/baby%20moses.pdf
• and watching this video:
• We've also done and plan to do many more of the activities on the great Homeschool Share website about Egypt: :http://www.homeschoolshare.com/ancient_egypt.php
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• We got this free book about Egypt for our Egypt studies. It's for Kindle, but we don't have a Kindle and the free program Amazon offers for Kindle on our PC works great!
  
  
  
• We also checked out Egypt on Google maps here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.0333333333,31.2166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=30.0333333333,31.2166666667%20(Egypt)&t=h
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• Plus we've used portions of these cool free online lapbook how-to's about Egypt:
• http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks/ancient_egypt.htm
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• (and I think I've posted some prior, so you can "search"this blog and my website for more info plus keep posted for more of our Egyptian forays! (and everything else of course :))

• Product Description

  Dozens of Egyptian activities at a king-sized value!
  • 45 stickers, tattoos, and stencils
  • King Tut sticker paper doll collection
  • 2 complete coloring books plus 4 stained glass coloring sheets
  • Egyptian poster
  • 3 full-color Egyptian masks
  • Crayons

  
  

  This one sounds fun , maybe to use in conjunction with some kind of play (I'll keep you posted on the one we do :)

  Product Description

  Ancient Egypt is one of the most evocative cultures for young readers. This book shows them what their lives would have been like there. There was no school, since most people couldn’t read or write, and no need to worry about fashion, because children didn’t wear clothes! Rich or poor, their houses would have been made of mud bricks. If I Were a Kid in Ancient Egypt takes readers through daily life in a vibrant culture that pioneered paper, linen, irrigation, medicine, and much more, and shows how these inventions came about and how they affected the culture’s younger citizens.