Oh wow how time flies when you are having fun! It sure has been a while since I made time to sit and blog, sorry for that.
On another note, have you ever realized how many words start with M? A bunch and for that reason I took a whole week to focus on that letter and we still didn't get to everything I planned! Here we go:
* I cut out huge M's from HEB paper bags and let the kids glue on different colors and sizes of paper to Make a Mozaic M. This one took them and while and they really enjoyed it.
* I let the kids cut out shapes from Magazines. I told them to find pictures they liked and to cut them out, this was fun practice on with scissors. The goal was to Make Magazine flowers but I realized that was more for older children. But I did end up Making a few on My own.
* I drew a Maze on a paper and explained to them how to get out and they had fun trying to figure it out.* The kids glued on Maccaroni to a piece of paper spelling out MOM.
* The next day I decided to step up the Maze a notch and Made a Maze for them to gide a Marble through. This was easy I just took a box and cut a side off and taped on colorful straws. Each child took turns tilting the cardboard and getting the Marble to the end.
* Going along with the Marble theme we Made a few different Marble paintings. The first one was achieved by putting shaving cream onto a cookie sheet, spreading it out evenly, adding drops of different food colorings, swirling it around with a stick, then placing a piece of card stock on top and pushing down to get the imprint of the Marbled creation. You put it out to dry and it even turns out to be soft and good smelling :)
The second method was to tape a piece of paper into a box and let the colored Marbles roll around and design a look. I took left over yogurt cups and put a little bit of paint into each one with different colors, dropped a few marbles in each color and let the kids take turns on grabbing the Marbles with plastic spoons and dropping them into the box and watching where it went with the paint flying everywhere. This was fun!
* The kids Made Maccaroni necklaces! I gave each child a string of yarn and a handful of maccaroni and let them lace it on. To wear the necklaces easier I attached a safety pin to the ends of them. My son gave me his.* On the final day we focused on Music! We Made what we called Music Makers. To do this you give your child a toilet paper tube and tell them to decorate it anyway they want. Then cap on end using paper ( I used 2 layers of tissue paper) and then add a handful of rice to the inside and cap the second end. There you have it your very own Maracas or what we called them, Music Makers!
We listened to different types of music and talked about the instuments that are used to make music in those songs that we heard. And finally we played Musical chairs!* As an ending to the week I let them watch a Movie, just so happened How to Train Your Dragon came out and they got to watch it.
