Dollar Tree Roll A Doodle - And A Team Version

Foam Dice, Dry Erase boards, free printables, and a bucket from the Dollar Tree, decorated with cricut, made this outdoor version of Roll A Doodle

Supplies:
  • Bucket or container from the Dollar Tree
  • Foam Dice From The Dollar Tree ( 2 for $1)
  • Dry Erase Markers From the Dollar Tree (4 for $1)
  • Eyeglass Cleaning Cloth from the Dollar Tree (for an eraser)
  • Free Printables (listed below)


The Bucket:








The Game Sheets:
I found these foam dice at the Dollar Tree while working on the Yardzee / Yarkle sets, and decided to put together a quick drawing game.  There are a lot of roll - a  - a doodle sheets already pre-done, a pinterest search will show you so many options!  The holiday versions look especially fun, and I will probably put some of those together for a Christmas party later this year!


But I wanted something that could work for a larger group at one time, in addition to keeping the  kids busy, so I created my own team version.  How It Works:


Split into  even teams.  ( 1—8 members on each team)  Agree on how many turns each player will take. (3-6)  Player One on each team rolls a die, then draws the corresponding shape on the dry erase board, then passes to the next player on their team, who then rolls the die, and adds their shape to the design. 
 Repeat until each player has had at least 3 turns adding a shape to the design.  (the fewer players, the more turns should be taken.  )  The team with the best picture made from the random shapes each player added to the design, wins.

Download a pdf file of the Team Roll A Doodle Sheets Here.
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Step By Step Yardzee With Free SVGS
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/08/making-yardzee-yarkle-set.html

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Making A Yardzee / Yarkle Set

DIY Yardzee and Yarkle  - with free printable score sheets & tips for decorating the buckets.

Links For The Downloads:
Supply List:
  • Bucket, Basket, or Container
  • 4x4 board, cut into 5 3.5 x 3.5 dice
  • Paint (Optional)
  • Clipboard (Dollar Tree)
  • Dry Erase Marker (Dollar Tree)
  • Eyeglass Cleaning Cloth (Dollar Tree)
  • Vinyl
  • Yahtzee & Farkle Score Sheets
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YOU CAN BUY THE DICE RATHER THAN MAKE THEM.
(Instructions for making your own are below)

You can buy a yardzee set for $21 on Amazon. I don't know if the label from the bucket could be removed or not...  https://amzn.to/424zbxY

You can also buy just foam version of the dice  - right now they are $3.20.  https://amzn.to/3NkDVf2  

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MAKING YOUR OWN DICE


The Dice
My husband made the dice.  We used a pine 4x4, which was cheap, and gives a rustic look.  They are not perfect.  Instructables recommends using cedar, and their dice are gorgeous!   Once the blocks were cut, we used a template and a drill press to drill the holes, and  sanded the blocks.  Then I painted them.  Ours are definitely very rustic.  I used the diaper wipe method (use a diaper wipe to apply the paint, instead of a paint brush) to paint the blocks white, letting the wood show through.

One 8 foot long 4x4  is approximately $10 at Lowes and will make 4-5 sets of Dice. 

Here is a step by step on cutting the blocks - and there is a free template for the dots on this site as well.  https://www.diymontreal.com/diy-yardzee-yard-dice/



The Buckets
We have access to really cheap 5 gallon white food grade buckets, so that is what I used for these.  Three gallon buckets, sold at Wal-mart, would be plenty big enough!   Amazon sells a 2 gallon bucket for under $4.  

I've also seen these stored in bags - a simple drawstring tote bag could work well, and could be personalized with htv.

The Design on The Bucket


Note - The Deadhead Classic font is one I use a lot - I downloaded it when it was free.  It's normally $20.   

There are so many ways to customize these! If you search pinterst, you will see it's popular to make these in sports team colors. 


The Score Sheets
I chose to print the score sheets on card stock, trim them, glue them fast to  a clipboard using a glue stick, then cover them in clear contact paper to make them a sturdy "dry erase board".  I then tied a dry erase marker to the top of the clipboard, and clipped an eyeglass cleaning cloth onto the clipboard to use as an eraser.  The clipboard, marker, and eyeglass cloth are all from the Dollar Tree.  The duck brand contact paper I had on hand, I bought it at Wal-mart to use as transfer tape.  I prefer Dollar Tree contact paper for transfer tape, but I think the duck brand works better for "faux laminating" things like this.  You could use the Dollar Tree clear contact paper  - I just prefer the Duck brand for this.  

That's all there is to it!  Making the dice is definitely the hardest part!  The score sheets and buckets can be made very quickly, but the dice took quite awhile.

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ROLL A DOODLE


While in the Dollar Tree for the score sheet supplies, I saw the foam dice and decided to make a Roll A Doodle set - and I made up a team version that I thought might be fun to play.  You can find those instructions here: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/08/dollar-tree-roll-doodle-and-team-version.html

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Where I post LOTS Of Free svgs each day, and more tips and tutorials

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Find More Cricut Project Tutorials Here:

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Books That Taught Me The History I Never Knew


I truly believe that we learn more through stories than from classrooms - that a comprehensive education can be acquired simply through access to a good library.  These books certainly taught me more history than I ever learned in a classroom.  Some are memoirs, some are non fiction, and some are even fiction, but fiction based on history, and those fiction novels often inspired me to research more of the factual history on my own.  I've started with a list by state, as I think our schools are severely lacking when it comes to American History.  Then I have a list of World History, and a list of general history below that.

American History By State:

Arizona - 

  • Down the Great Unknown By Edward Dolnick - John Wesley Powell's amazing  expedition down the grand canyon.  This also touches on the men who came home from the civil war and needed an adreneline rush, there were those who were unable to settle into the normal routines of life after the war.
  • No Barriers by Erik Weihenmeyer - This book is about a "blind mans journey to kayak the grand canyon"   - but it is SO much more than that.  You will learn so much from this book  - about technologies to help the blind, about traumatic brain injury, about nature, and so much more.  Erik is amazing on his own of course, but even more amazing are the people he has surrounded himself with, and their stories are woven into this book as well.  I think I spent a full week after finishing this book just wandering around randomly saying "wow" as I recapped various parts of the book in my brain.  

Hawaii - 


Illinois - 


Kentucky - 
New Jersey

  • Radium Girls  by Kate Moore- The horrific story of the women who glowed, then died, from their job painting watches, and the company that denied responsibility.  This story took place roughly the same time as the Killers Of The Flower Moon in Oklahoma, and I just happened to read the two back to back.

New York - 

  • The Great Bridge - By David McCullough.  If I had come across a book on the Brooklyn Bridge by any other author, I doubt I would have even read the back cover.  But David McCullough wrote this, so I read all 636 pages about the creation of a bridge, and I learned so very much!  
  • A Fall Of Marigolds  by Susan Meisner - Switches timelines between September 11 2001, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 100 years earlier, with a a good bit about Ellis Island and the immigration process as well.  THis was a slow start for me, but once I got into this book, I loved it, and learned so much!

North Carolina - 


Ohio - 

  • The Pioneers by David McCullough  - An especially intereting read for us genealogists in Pennsylvania.  So many of us had branches of our families "go west" to Ohio, where there are often in depth biographies written for those banches of the family.  What took  them to Ohio?  This book gives so much context for that research.


Oklahoma - 
  • Killers Of The Flower Moon - The Osage Murders & The Birth Of The FBI  -  By David Grann In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.  Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. 
Pennyslvania
  • The Summer Of 1787 By David O Stewart - The story of the creation of our constitution, and the men who crafted it.  If you plan to visit Independence Hall in Philadelphia, read this first!  Another one of my all time favorite reads!
  • The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough.  I love everything David McCullough has written, but this, in my opinion, is one of his very best. I've visited Johnstown, but it is through McCulloughs descriptions that I "see" the history that occurred here.
South Carolina
  • Six Miles To Charleston by Bruce Orr - When we travel, I like to find a book that has soemthing to do with where we are traveling.  For our trip to South Carolina, I found this book about the reputed first female serial killer.  It isn't one of my favorite books, but it was an interesting read. " In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its reportedly grisly cellar to the murderous couple's incarceration and execution at the squalid Old City Jail. Yet there still may be more sinister deeds left unpunished, an overzealous sheriff, corrupt officials and documents only recently discovered all suggest that there is more to the tale. Orr uncovers the mysteries and debunks the myths behind the infamous legend of the nation's first convicted female serial killer."
Tennessee - 
Texas - 
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King.  Fiction, but with so much historical background on Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy.  

History Around The World:

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery.

Seven Years In Tibet By Heinrich Harrer
This memoir is one of my favorite books of all time.
"In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama."


The Greater Journey - Americans In Paris By David McCullough
"The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work."

 Little Princes - One Man's Promise To Bring Home The Lost Children Of Nepal by Conor Grennan - A Memoir
In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. He was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. Conor learned the unthinkable truth--the children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages protection for their children from the civil war for a huge feebly taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children with their families. He risks his life, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Little Princes is a true story of what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. At turns tragic, joyful, and hilarious, it is a testament to the power of faith and the ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations

 Born To Run

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The History that Inspired The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek


I'm reading The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek this week, and although it is fiction, it is inspired by history.  Both the history of the Pack Horse Librarians, and the history of the blue people of Kentucky.  I do love a book that teaches me history!  As often is the case with books like this, I wanted to do some research on my own.  This is what I found on the Pack Horse Librarians.  (JoJo Moyes new book, due to be released this October, is also about a Pack Horse Librarian  The Giver Of The Stars.)

 The Pack Horse Library Project

After the great depression, as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration, librarians on horseback took books and periodicals to the remote hollows and hills of eastern Kentucky. More about the Works Progress Administration

"I remember standing with my mother on the porch of a long-gone rural Kentucky school when I was a child and she was a school teacher" said Bill Elam.  "She tried to explain to me the Pack Horse Library. She summed it up in words that I do remember: They brought us books"  Some places were so remote that book women often had to go part of the way on foot. One carrier traveled a section of her route by rowboat. The Courier Journal, Nov 5 1995

The Courier-Journal 
Louisville, Kentucky
05 Nov 1995, Sun  •  Page 21

a 1995 article in the Courier -Journal includes an interview with 83 year old former pack horse librarian Grace Caudill Lucas.
"Son, (times) was so hard you couldn't hardly crack 'em" she said. "It wasn't only one; it was about everybody. The only work there was around here besides grubbing and making moonshine was railroading, and there was only a few pensioners.  They was the only ones that had a dollar.  We had enough to eat, We had our own hogs, and our own cow.  But many of a night my children and me went to bed with just milk and bread for supper, and its still good enough for me."

Before becoming a Pack Horse Librarian, Grace worked for the Works Progress Administration Sewing Project.  Around 1934, at age 22, she switched to the Pack Horse Library project.  "I got paid $28 a month and worked three days a week.  I had to hire my horse.  I paid 50 cents a day for the horse and fed it."
She recalls riding around cliffs, and through deep water, and sometimes her feet froze to the stirrups.

(Try clicking on the photo to enlarge and read it, or right click and save as, then you should be able to enlarge it to read it)
The Courier-Journal 
Louisville, Kentucky
17 Dec 1995, Sun  •  Page 3


Did you wonder if the librarians really did bind and repair the books?  I did.  And I found this article in a 1939 Kentucky newspaper:
The Owensboro Messenger
January 22 1939



St. Cloud Times 
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
13 Nov 1936, Fri  •  Page 9



And what about those Pack Horse Librarian Scrapbooks?
Before there were bloggers sharing recipes and crafts and tips, there were Pack Horse Librarian Scrapbooks - full of magazine articles, recipes, quilt patterns and more.  Some of them still exist today!

“The librarians would go through these ragged magazines and dilapidated books and they would cannibalize them, deconstruct them, remix them and create these new scrapbooks.” -Jason Vance





Additional Books About The Pack Horse Librarians:
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More:


The Courier-Journal 
Louisville, Kentucky

05 Nov 1995, Sun  •  Page 21

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Wizards Unite - Potions Master Codes & How To Use Them

Did you know you can decrease the potion brewing time by 15%?
Tap on the stirring spoon, and you will see a screen with blank squares.
  Fill in the correct code for each potion, and then it will brew faster.  


Baruffio's Brain Elixer
 Clockwise stir, pinch in, line across, line across, pinch out, shake

Dawdle Draught: 
Shake, clockwise stir, counterclockwise stir, counterclockwise stir, pinch in

 Exstimulo Potion:

line up, line up, clockwise stir.

Healing Potion: 
Pinch Out, clockwise stir, tap 3x, pinch in .

 Invigoration Draught:
Line across, line up, line up, pinch out

 Potent Exstimulo Potion: 
Line up, Line Across, Line Up, Counterclockwise stir, Clockwise stir, Counterclockwise stir.

Strong Exstimulo Potion:
Line Up, Line Up, counterclockwise stir, clockwise stir.

 Strong Invigoration Draught:
Line Across, Line up, Line Up, Line Up, Pinch Out, Pinch Out

Wit-Sharpening Potion:
Pinch Out, line up, line up, tap 3 times.
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The Cheapest Sublimation Printer Option? Alternatives to Cricut Infusible Ink.



With all of the talk this week about Cricut Infusible Ink, I've started compiling alternatives from the comments.  Please note that I have not (yet) tried any of  these - I'm just collecting the information at the moment! 

NOTE - This page is from 2019, Prices have most likely changed!  But probably not for the better...

 Infusible Ink is cricut's version of sublimation printing, and I include the prices of their materials, and an expected release date, at the bottom of this post.

 A Little About Sublimation
"Dye-sublimation works by penetrating the surface of the substrate with ink. Man-made materials such as nylon, certain plastics, and polyester fabrics contain polymers that when heated, enable the bonding of ink.

Dye-sublimation printing yields beautiful and permanent colors that are embedded in the substrate or fabric, rather than printed on the surface. Images on fabric won’t fade or crack even after multiple washings. Images on hard substrates will not chip, peel or scratch."https://www.rolanddga.com/blog/2016/06/02/22/42/3-things-you-should-know-about-dye-sublimation

1. Everlast Patterns From Heat Transfer Source
(Sublimation pages pre-printed for you, ready to be cut in your cricut machine)


2. There is talk of an online company that will do custom sublimation.  I don't know if that will be the heat transfer site above, or another one, I do not have that information yet. (If you have companies to recommend, please message me!)

3. Buy An Epson Printer and Sublimation Ink Kit -

Epson C88 Printer
https://amzn.to/2WmoDIk


Sublimation CISS system for Epson C88
https://amzn.to/2K3KnXM
Does this include ink?  Or do I need to purchase that separately? I don't know..
Ink - https://amzn.to/2I2aFaD

Sublimation paper to print on
https://amzn.to/2IpGid9

Well, that added up fast.  At least $200 to get started with sublimation?  And that does not include any items to actually use the prints on.  Also consider that most of the new irons will not get hot enough to work with  any of these methods.  You will want a heat press, an easy press, or possibly, and old thrift store iron.


4. Infusible Ink From Cricut - Prices
Expected to be available at Michaels on July 16th online, 22nd in store.
(Personally, I expect to see a lot of it in the clearance section by Christmas...  I can wait)


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