This file includes Slumber Parties. See also Day and Night, Lullabies and Teddy Bears.

Sleep Page Toppers

Sleep Quotes

• All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. (Plutarch)
• Always kiss your children good night - even if they're already asleep. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
• The amount of sleep required by the average person is 5 minutes more. (Wilson Mizener)
• The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. (E. Joseph Cossman)
• The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.
• Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
• I don't dream about you, because I can never fall asleep when I'm thinking about you!
• Dreams Are the Flowers That Bloom in Your Heart
• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. (Edgar Watson Howe)
• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
• Having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
• How Can I Tell My Dreams Not to Sleep With You
• I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. (Bill Watterson)
• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. (Dale Carnegie)
• I'll sleep when I'm dead. (Warren Zevon)
• I'm not afraid of the dark, it's the things in the dark I'm afraid of
• In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. (Colette)
• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. (Baltasar Gracián)
• It's hard to feel morally superior to a person who gets up earlier than you do.
• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. (Fran Lebowitz)
• My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
• Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. (Catherine O'Hara)
• No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. (Carrie Snow)
• People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. (Leo J. Burke)
• People who snore always fall asleep first.
• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. (Gaston Bachelard)
• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. (Charlotte Bronte)
• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.
• That's right I'm good in bed! I can sleep for days!
• There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
• There is no such thing as too much sleep.
• Tired nature's sweet restoration, balmy sleep! (Edward Young)
• To sleep, perchance to snore.
• A well spent day brings happy sleep. (Leonardo da Vinci)
• When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
• When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
• Whenever I Want You All I Have to Do is Dream
• A yawn is an honest opinion openly expressed.
• You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Navajo Proverb)

Sleep

(Sir Philip Sidney)

Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
The indifferent judge between high and low.

Waking Up Page Toppers

The Land of Nod

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Midnight Thoughts

A tiny cry within the night,
A mother's touch, a gentle light,
A rocking chair, a cheek caressed,
A baby to a bosom pressed,
A bundle in a cot replaced,
A mother's footsteps, soft,
Retraced -
She whispers as the shadows
Creep...
"Now, let me sleep! Please,
Let me sleep!!"

Send the Children to Bed With a Kiss

Oh, parents, so weary, discouraged.
Worn out with the cares of the day,
You often grow cross and impatient,
Complain of the noise and the play.
For the day brings many vexations,
So many things go amiss.
But, parents, whatever may vex you,
Send the children to bed with a kiss.

The dear little feet often wander,
Perhaps from the pathways of right.
The dear little hands find new mischief
To try you from morning 'til night
But think of the desolate parents
Who'd give all the world for your bliss.
And as thanks for your infinite blessings,
Send the children to bed with a kiss.

For someday their noise will not vex you.
The silence will hurt you far more.
You will long for the sweet childish voices,
For a sweet childish face at the door.
And to press a child's face to your bosom,
You'd give all the world just for this.
For the comfort t'will give you in sorrow,
Send the children to bed with a kiss.

Sleep Page Ideas

• Put a piece of 12x10 blue star paper at the top of the page. Tear a strip of green paper a little over 2" wide and 12" long to fill in the white area at the bottom of the page. Put a fence sticker on the green paper about 1" up from the bottom and about 3" from the right edge of the page. Put 3 or 4 lamb stickers on the grass - placing one so that it appears to be jumping over the fence.
  At the top of the page use gold ABC's (or the gold pen) to write "Counting sheep". Cut white pieces of paper in the shape of large clouds to mat photos of sleeping babies.
• Using the deckle scissor or something similar cut a piece paper about 4" square. Write on it "Shhh, Baby's Sleeping". Put it in the center of the page near the top and draw lines above it so that it looks like it is hanging from a nail (use a paper punch to make the nail head). Put photos on the page of your baby sleeping in various places or positions.
• Use ABC stickers to write  "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" across the top of the page. Below the title mount a sheet of blue star paper sideways across the page leaving a narrow white strip at the bottom. Cut a crescent moon shape out of gold paper and put it near the upper left of the page (if you want you can set a small Teddy bear sticker on the moon). Cut photos of sleeping babies or children into cloud shapes. If the photos have dark backgrounds put them on white paper and trim around them to make a white mat about 1/4" wide. Mount the photos on the blue star paper. In the white strip at the bottom you can journal about the photos or finish the prayer.
• Cut sleeping child photos into "z" shapes. Mat on white and cut around in the same shape. Mount on blue star paper

A motorist decided to pull into a city park for a nap after a long day's drive. As he settled down in the seat and closed his eyes, a jogger rapped on his window to inquire the time. Bleary-eyed, he found his watch and proclaimed it to be 10:30.
Sleeping at last, he was awakened by another jogger rapping on the window.
"Sir, do you have the time?"
Looking at his watch again, he answered, "It's 10:45."
He wasn't getting much rest, so he fashioned a crude note and stuck it on the dash so all could read. It stated, "I don't have the time."
Again, he settled back for his sorely needed nap. Along came another jogger who rapped on his window and called out, "Sir, it's 11 o'clock."

Slumber Parties

Page Toppers

Use sleeping bags for sleep over, camping and slumber party pages. Cut two rectangles out of coordinating papers and round off the two bottom corners of each one. Mount one on top of the other. Turn down one of the corners of the top rectangle at an angle so it looks like a sleeping bag. Some people use one rectangle and cut a small triangle for the turn down part.
Some of the stickers that go good to decorate these pages are flashlights, toys, make up, music notes, etc. (Tobi W.)