Looking for something to do this weekend?

The 2nd annual Imprints Cares About Literacy Used Book Sale is here!

Join us on Friday February 25th from 4 to 9pm. Shop for books while enjoying a delicious array of wine, beer, and appetizers from Bob's Big Gas Subs and Pub.

You can also purchase books on Saturday the 26th from 9am to 3pm. During the last hour, get even more bargains during our "Bag Sale." Stuff a bag full of books for only $5! Bags are provided. 

We hope to see you there!

We Need Your Gently Used Books

 Imprints is doing it again! The 2nd annual Used Book Sale is set for Friday and Saturday, February 25th and 26th.

To donate your books or for more information, please contact Betty West at 336.722.6296 x206 or bwest@imprintsforfamilies.org

Books for all ages are welcome!

February Parent Meeting

The Imprints parent group in February is:

The Power of Love: How to Spot Your Child's Love Language

This parent group will be based on The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman.

When: Wednesday, February 9th from 11am to Noon.

Where: Imprints at Augsburg Community Center
             502 N Broad St
             Winston-Salem, NC 27101
             (Parking lot is on Pilot View St)

Please RSVP to your parent educator or to Berta Andrade at 713-9743 or bandrade@imprintsforfamilies.org.

Child care and lunch are provided! We hope to see you there!

November Parent Group

The Imprints parent group in November is:

Having Fun With My Family: It's More Important Than Ever

Please join us to explore ways to play and celebrate together in your busy family life.

When: Wednesdsay, November 17th, 11am to Noon

Where: Imprints at Augsburg Community  502 North Broad Street, Winston-Salem

Childcare and lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP to your parent educator or to Berta Andrade at 713-9743.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Imprints Parent Group - Who's the Boss?

Please join us on Tuesday, September 21st from 11am to noon for a lunch and learn about positive discipline and taking charge in your home.

The meeting will be at Imprints at Augsburg Community Center - 502 N Broad St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.

Childcare and lunch are provided. Please call Berta Andrade at 713-9743 to RSVP.

I'm Bored!!!

We're about midway through the summer and I know that I'm starting to hear the "I'm bored!!" Are you? Too much free time can make it tough to come up with things to do. Here are a couple of ideas to fight midsummer boredom.


Go outside! There are tons of things to do outside but one less obvious thing may be to become explorers. It may seem like you know your neighborhood but try looking a little bit closer. 

• Pretend to be ants and look at things from the ground. Discuss what it would be like to be so small. If you don't know a lot about ants, look them up on the internet or in a book. You'll both learn something.
• Collect leaves or rocks and compare them. Try to find out which tree the leaves came from.
• Take an alphabet walk. Find something that starts with an A (ant), then a B (ball) and so on.
• Cut a paper towel tube in half and tape the two pieces together to make binoculars. Take them birdwatching and record what you find.

Another idea is to make an idea box. Give your kids an empty tissue or shoe box and ask them to decorate it. 

Then together, come up with ideas, write them on strips of paper and put them in the box. On days when they are having a tough time deciding what to do, they can draw an idea out of the box. 

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Have one person hide a kitchen timer. The others have to find it by listening to the ticking sound.
• Use sidewalk chalk to create a city with roads and stores. Use toy cars, animals and people to play with the city.
• Cut drinking straws apart and tape them into people and animals. You could even add them to your city.
• Read and act out out a favorite story.
• Create a fort by putting a blanket over a table and have a picnic lunch under there. 
• Spray shaving cream onto a cookie sheet and let the kids draw in it with their fingers.
• Make a treasure hunt. Use picture clues if your kids are too young to write.
• Bake cookies or make a snack together. Makinglearningfun.com has several kid friendly recipes.

Whenever you think of a new idea or come across one in a magazine, write it down and add it to your box. 

We would love to hear what your family does on "boring" days!

Please help!

Beginning tomorrow, April 6th at 9am, GoodSearch will donate $1 for each toolbar that is downloaded. The catch is that GoodSearch has a $5,000 limit, so Imprints supporters need to be some of the first 5,000 people to download it.

Starting at 9am, download this link onto every web browser that you can: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/imprints

Please ask your friends and family to download this money saving toolbar so they can help us get as much of that $5,000 as we can. Thank you for your support!!!!

If you are unfamiliar with GoodSearch and how it helps Imprints, please read this to learn more.