Welcome to Family Fun Friday! Some of our readers are already feeling cooler weather. Have you noticed pumpkin recipes and crafts in your e-mail inboxes lately? We haven’t started featuring pumpkin dishes yet, but we did find a few new supper recipes. Tired of the same old dinners? This week we’re featuring main course marvels. Our talented bloggers are sharing delicious recipes for shredded taco bakes, loaded grilled shrimp salad, lemon chicken skillets, and tasty shrimp skewers.
We are also featuring Back to Preschool activities. Preschool is a great time to start an early education with fun activities and easy learning. Have fun with toilet paper roll crafts, teach the ABCs, teach counting, and teach word building with apple basket crafts! Don’t forget that you can always find time for play. Make some freezer meals ahead of time, balance learning with doing, prioritize family play time, and enjoy snack time together. Make time for Family Fun!
Plus, don’t miss the $500 Giveaway hosted by myself and some of my blogging friends with the Kid Blogger Network.
Every week at HappyandBlessedHome.com we share the talents and top posts from our blogging friends all around the web with HappyandBlessedHome.com readers via: Family Fun Friday. The Family Fun Friday Team reviews 100+ link-ups to select the top features in the following categories: Encouraging Posts for Moms, Recipes, Family Fun, and Homeschooling. Every week is different and is tailored to the trends that are current to help moms save time and energy so they can have more freedom to do what they love best – enjoy family fun!
Please stop by your favorites and thank the bloggers who try to help readers by sharing their talents and tips. We’re so thankful for this online community and hope you’ll make new friends online!
Giveaways, recipes, homeschooling, kid’s activities and free printables, we’ve got you covered at Family Fun Friday. If you are looking for the best tips, links, resources, freebies and more – you’ve come to the right place! Family Fun Friday is all about connecting as a family. We feature great ideas for family fun, and things to help moms get things done so they have more time to spend doing what they love to do – be with family! Welcome to our community!
Special Announcement!
We’re looking for a few more Co-hosts for Family Fun Friday! If you would like to be considered, please click this link and fill out the google form. AND we want to say THANK YOU to Selena Robinson – a long time co-host of Family Fun Friday. Thank you Selena – we’ll miss you!
Co-hosts will get to be a part of an exciting link up party featuring some of the best bloggers on the web. We have over 100 bloggers linking here weekly and over 9,000 subscribers with every post. It’s a fantastic way to make new bloggy friends and meet new readers!
Wahoo! It’s Family Fun Friday
I love my co-hosts Herchel and Selena. Your links get lots of exposure as this party is promoted on several blogs at the same time. Woo-Hoo! Each co-host is featuring her top picks from the party so you get an increased chance in being featured as well. Each featured post will be pinned by the hostesses so be sure to link up your best!
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Meet our Family Fun Friday hostesses:
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| Monica created Family Fun Friday and blogs at HappyandBlessedHome.comwhere she shares free preschool tools and printables, encouraging words for moms, and ideas for having fun together as a family. Follow: Blog / Facebook /Pinterest / Twitter /Google + /Bloglovin’/Instagram. Monica will round-up all the Family Fun Friday posts. | |
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| Herchel enjoys blogging about parenting, organizing, crafting, and having good old-fashioned kid fun on her blog Gym, Craft, Laundry. Follow: Blog /Facebook/Pinterest / Twitter /Google +. Herchel will feature organizing and family fun. | |
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| Selena is a homeschooling graduate and a homeschooling mom to four super special kids. She blogs at Look! We’re Learning! about unit studies, foreign language, and homeschooling with ADHD. Follow: Blog / Facebook /Pinterest/Instagram / Twitter. | |
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To PIN a specific blogger’s post please click through and pin directly from their site. If you’re a mom keep reading because we have some wonderful fun ideas to inspire you with your little ones and family. My blogging friends are linking up craft ideas, fun in the kitchen, preschool & homeschool ideas, and ways to spend time as a family.
My blog is growing but I need your help, please like my facebook page or PIN a button and help spread the word about HappyandBlessedHome.com. Thanks so much.
If you enjoy the features on Family Fun Friday please leave me a comment, I would love to hear from you! If you see things that you like here – please PIN them on Pinterest! If you PIN these lists it will help this blogging party grow.
Highlights and FUN FREEBIES!
If you enjoy easy recipes, free printables and family fun you’ll love all these awesome ideas and freebies at HappyandBlessedHome.com. Check out all these amazing features and enjoy the benefits of being a HappyandBlessedHome.com fan!
- $500 Cash Giveaway and 25 Fun Fall Crafts for Kids with Leaves
- FREE Back to School Calendar Printables
- PF Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps Copycat Recipe
- Easy No Bake Cranberry Almond Squares
- BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches Recipe
- Lemonade Inspired Berry Special and Lemon Bar Parfaits
- FREE Lunch Box notes for Kids and an Anniversary Sale
- 5 Tips for Encouraging Teen Girls as they Go Back to School
- FREE Minions Play Doh Mats for Kids and Minions Bento Box Tutorial
- $100 Daily Gift Card Giveaway at this link: 5 Step Easy Ice Cream Cake Recipe
- FREE Printables with 20 Different Owl Inspired Designs & FREE Scholastic Books
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If you enjoy free printables, crafts and games for little ones, recipes, ideas for family fun and encouraging posts for moms, sign up and have Happy and Blessed Home delivered to your inbox. Simply enter your e-mail address here:
Special Thanks
Thanks to all my blogging friends for linking up last week at Family Fun Friday. I have a special YouTube Video for you at Thank You All My Blogging Friends! So many great ideas, crafts and things to do! If you link up, you permit me to use your pictures/ideas as part of future posts and/or social media. Now on to some fabulous posts for moms.
Thanks again for all your wonderful ideas! I hope these Family Friendly and Fun ideas inspire you.
Featured Bloggers:
This week we have some delicious desserts to make for a “happy ending” to any meal.
Main Course Marvels
1. Megan at Skinny Fitalicious shared a yummy-looking Loaded Grilled Shrimp Salad
2. Michelle at The Gracious Housewife shared an easy Taco Bake Casserole for a satisfying meal.
3. Nothings faster and easier than skillet cooking and the Lou Lou girls know how to do it with flavor. Check out their Lemon Skillet Chicken.
4. Michelle blogs at On Love Lines from God and there you’ll find a delicious recipe for homemade Chicken and Dumplings
5. Love Shimp? You’ll love this Scampi on a Skewer over at Cooking the Recipe blog.
6. These look so scrumptious, I am totally trying these Stuffed Chicken Rolls by Culinary Flavors
There is always time for play
Back to Preschool
For the homeschool crowd, Selena has gathered together a list of ideas to help families have a happy homeschooling experience. Don’t forget to stop at Gym Craft Laundry and show Selena a little bloggy love on Facebook.
The Facebook party link-up has been moved to another page, located at: Like Me on Facebook Link-Up Here. It’s a great way to meet other bloggers, network and help each other grow your Facebook Page’s likes.
For Family Fun Friday we’re going to start networking using Twitter – we hope you will join us!
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I pray you are blessed by this effort to share ideas on having Family Fun.
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We’d like to help everyone grow their presence on Twitter. Leave your link so we can all get connected!
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