H is for Happy!!!

Hooray for H! We Had tons of fun with the letter H! There are some great feelings that start with H and we sure did talk about them. We were always trying to stay Happy and give tons of Hugs! For some reason my kids were also feeling extra Hoppy and preferred to hop everywhere. There were some activited that I didn't get to and it looks like we will just Have to do them next time. But for now this is what we did:

* The kids made a House made of craft sticks and then colored them
on the inside and out. I loved seeing their imagination used for this one.

* I let the kids stencil hearts on a paper and then decorate them by glueing on pieces of colored tissue paper.

* We did a dot to dot Horse and then colored them! I 've never seen such colorful horses;)

* Lastly I seem to love making crafts on craft sticks so we went ahead and painted wooden Hearts and glued them onto colorful craft sticks. This was a 2 part craft since the paint had to dry but they really enjoyed it.

We ended our days Happy with lots of Hugs! Hope you Have a Happy day:)

G is Great!

Last week we took only one day to Go over G! So far it is the letter that the kids have had the hardest time actually writing. We did lots of writing practice, on paper and on the side walk. But we also did a couple of Great activites!

*I paired the words Green, Grass and Goat all into one activity. First we went outside to look at everything Geen and I let them pick a little bit of Grss. Then we came back inside and they cut out a Goat and Glued him onto a piece of construction paper. Then just for fun I let them glue on marshmellows as the Goat's tummy. Then they Glued their Grass on the picture and colored the Goat's collar.

* We colored a Gecko Green and practiced writing the letter G!

* We also played a lot of Green Light Red Light and I spy!

F is FUN!

Because of the busy week and the non crafty E, we spent a little bit more time with F because it really was FUN!

* We made a Family portrait- this is always fun at this age because you get to see what their little imaginations come up with!

* We colored lots of Fishies that were Friends from our coloring book.

*We made our own fishies to play with or use as a bookmark. I cut out a fish of 2 sizes and let the kids glue them on top of each other. Then we glued the fish onto a colorful stick. And the most fun part was letting the kids glue on the eye and the embellishments to make their fishie fun! By the way I got the bags of eyes and gems at the Dollar Tree!

*We made a picture with our FEET! I traced the kids feet and let them write Feet and their names as a keepsake.

*We made Faces on a plate. I gave the kids a paper plate and let them draw their interpretation of their Face. You can glue a stick to it and let them use it as a mask in front of their face if you would like.

*Last but not least was my Favorite we made Frames! We took colorful popsicle sticks and glued them together in a frame shape then glammed them up with some gems. Then I happened to have some magnet handy so I cut strips and stuck it to the back of the frames so the kids could put them on the Fridge!

E is for energy!

Sorry it's been a while, I experienced an amazingly busy week last week with doctor's visits and MOPS meetings which meanwhile took a lot of Energy out of my but didn't seem to bother my kid's energy:) We did find time to do a few activites last week but E has been the hardest letter for me to be creative thus far.

For letter E we did:

*Lots of practicing writing the letter E

*Colored some Elmo pictures

*Ate lots of Eggs

*Made an Eyes mask- I drew eyes on construction paper and let the kids color in the pupil their color. Then they helped me cut them out and I made holes in the middle for them to see out of and holes on the edges to carry yarn through to go around their heads.

* Learned all about the Earth and topped it off with making an earth suncatcher! I took a paper plate and cut out a whole in the middle and glued a piece of plastic wrap to cover the hole ( you can also use parchment paper).

Then I copied the earth onto the plastic with a permanant marker.

I gave the kids blue and green paint and they painted the earths and then we attached blue tissue paper strings to the bottom (you can use crepe paper instead). Finally I punched a hole at the top and looped a piece of yarn so they could hang it up.

The picture doesn't really do the kids artwork justice, but they were all so excited to get it home and put it on their windows!

D is for Dinosaur!

Last week we ended the week focusing on the letter D! Boys love all things D, Dinosaurs, Dragons, Dogs, the list could go on and on. So needless to say I focused on a couple of really hands on activites each day and the kids really enjoyed themselves. Plus there sure were plenty of dinosaur books to read along the way!

These are the activites we did:

*We made door hangers- I bought the foam ones that come in a pack of 4 at the Dollar tree and on one side I put there name and on the other side I let them color it however they liked and topped it off with plenty of dinosaur stickers!

* We made drums and drum sticks- I always keep the yogurt containers instead of tossing them and I finally got to use some for this activity. It was a 2 part process where I let the kids paint the "drums" with a dark color to try and mask the container and while it dried we made drum sticks with colorful straws that I taped a colorful popsicle stick on to one side. The kids had a blast using their drums as loud as they could!

* We made dinosaur prints- I had them drawn on a piece of manilla paper and let the kids color them however they wanted and then we added sand to the picture to show where the dinosaurs had left their prints in the sand. The kids had fun dipping their paintbrushes in glue then sprinkling on the sand.

*We made a dog puppet- I used a paper bag and had ear and tongue cutouts ready for them to just glue on.

* And of course we had multiple Dance parties!

C

The last couple of days were spent on the letter C in this house!

Again there are so many works and too many ideas to do all in 2 days. There were some good books that we read from the library as well as these activities:
* Colored a cow and practiced writing the letter C
* Colored a car and practiced writing the letter C
* Cut out a cat and glued it onto a piece of construction paper and colored it :)
* Colored a cookie and glued on beans to decorate it

* Played in Cream (shaving cream that is)- this was the favorite by far! I put a plastic table cloth on the ground and gave each child a serving of shaving cream and asked them to draw c's and they enjoyed the texture of it and slipping around it!

* Made a card for mom and dad!

Clouds would have been fun if it weren't raining the whole time, I would have taken them outside to watch the clouds go by and make up what they saw in the clouds. Who knows maybe tomorrow we will be able to throw this in?!

C you later!

B is for Black

Hello all!

Last week we took Thursday and Friday to focus on the letter B. Who knew there were so many words that begin with the letter b?! My son's favorite color is black so naturally everytime I asked the kids what the letter B said, he would say, " B, Ba, Black" We had fun with this one.

There were lots of Books from the library that I incorporated with our lesson which was awesome. We read a book about Buzzing Bees, Butterflies, Black, Blue and of course the letter B.

We did many activites including:

*Making bracelets- with a pipe cleaner, macaroni, and markers to decorate them. (this also works those motor skills too)

*Cutting out a butterfly from construction paper and decorating it

* Coloring a ball and practicing how to write the letter B

*Making a ball- I punched holes on the outer rim of a paper plate and let the kids thread some yearn through the holes and then they colored it how ever they wanted to and we wrote Ball in the middle. (also worked those motor skills ).

*Making a bookmark- I used that foam paper that's real cheap and cut strips out and punched a hole in the top and put a few pieces of yarn to dangle from it. Then I wrote their names on them and let them use markers and foam stickers to decorate them.

There were just so many ideas I had that we didn't get to so I can't wait to do the letter B again!