Well, I was going to post pictures of the cute craft and snack we had, but my house was broken into and they took my laptop and camera. So for now, please make do with just the description. Thank you!
The craft we did was a cute groundhog puppet. Adam drew up a little cartoon groundhog waving one hand. Each kid colored him in, glued him to a large popsicle stick. We then took large foam cups with a slit in the bottom. Put the stick through the slit, and you can now make your cute little groundhog pop out to check his shadow!
The snack I made was just "dirt". You take chocolate pudding, and fill a small plastic cup about halfway. Crush up some Oreo cookies to look like dirt and sprinkle over the top. I topped it off with a Nilla wafer cookie that I decorated to look like a groundhog face with black frosting.
The books we read were:
Gretchen Groundhog, It's your day by Abby Levine
Groundhog Day by Margaret McNamara
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Groundhog's Day!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Day 18: Hand puppets
Day 18: Adam and I made hand puppets out of brown lunch bags and construction paper. They turned out really cute. I made a kitty and piggy, and Adam made a fish and a lion. Of course Adam's are way better than mine, but that's what I get for marrying a artist! (He also reminded me that he taught art to kindergarten through 8th grade!) We had a ton of fun and this morning when the kids came downstairs they spotted them instantly! Although L first called them monsters and then presents. He has been having fun playing with them. He actually had piggy sneeze, asked me for a tissue for him, made him blow his nose, and wipe. Can you tell we have had the evil cold a few times this year?? D has just been kicking them around the living room. Oh well!
Car update: So Adam changed the starter in the car all by himself and that was what was wrong!! Thank goodness, we have a car again. It's no fun having a broken car, it's really no fun when all you have is that one car. It took him almost 4 hours, but he did it. Hurray! I added pictures of his hands after so you can see what the result was. Remember it was a high of 25 degrees that day too!! I was good and brought him a cup of hot soup while he was working. And I shoveled the driveway so that he didn't have to. Am I good or what?
The puppets and the mess
Adam's creations
My creations
