Once again, these all come from the Totally Tot website. As you can see, the kids sometimes have their own take on how these will look, like the letter f for example. Oh well, they are just expressing their creativity, right?
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| e is for egg |
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| f is for fish |
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| g is for goose |
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| h is for horse |
While eating lunch today, we were watching Sesame Street. A newer muppet named Murray was going to a kids art school.
M: Did you guys know that Daddy went to art school?
D: NO WAY!!!!!!!
M: Mommy went to art school too.
D: Oh okay mommy.
L gave no response at all to either
So much for impressing them with what I did before they were around.
This morning L was walking around the living room with his middle finger in his mouth (as some of you know he has a preference to that finger). I asked him what he was doing. Here is our conversation:
L: "That's how you think, right mommy?"
M: "No L, that is how you annoy your mommy."
L: "Well I'm practicing how to annoy you. It's for the annoy your mom contest. I'm going to tell all the townspeople that the contest is today."
M: "Oh well, okay."
I mean, what can you say to that one. I can see already that I am going to be in trouble with these two when they get older.
The mom's group that I organize had their 2nd annual family picnic on Sunday, and we had intended on having the kids do potato stamps since it is National Potato month. Well, the kids were having way to much fun at the playground, so I didn't even bother setting it up. I had the stamps all cut already, so Monday evening before dinner, I took the kids in the backyard. I had cut a heart, star, triangle, square, rectangle, and sort of a rain drop shape. I put a dollop of each color of washable paint on a paper plate for each of us to use. Our friend had donated a large roll of white paper to us, so we rolled it out on our tiny sidewalk in back, and got set to stamping. At first D would just stamp over the same spot with every stamp. That quickly become a messy pile of paint. But once she figured out that you could move around this giant sheet of paper, she became much more creative. That is until she has red paint all over her hands and wiped the hair out of her face. Needless to say it was definitely bath night! They were very proud of the designs that we made and proudly helped hang it up. I thought even the plate the kids used looked really neat.
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| They started out as single color stamps and quickly became a nice mix of colors. |
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| Even the plates holding the paint became art work afterwards! |
As some of you might know, I'm an organizer of a local mom's group. This year, we have the majority of the kids going to one school or another. We decided it may be fun to have a back to school party to get the kids ready. We decorated pencil cups, bookmarks, and had fun coloring pages. I read stories, and ate a pencil cake. The cake idea came from Family Fun magazine. If you haven't checked them out yet, you should. They always have age appropriate crafts, story ideas, food, travel, toy suggestions, and party planning. The pencil cups were just cans that I saved from the meals I cooked. I washed them out, let them air dry, wrapped 2 layers of masking tape over the top lip of the can (so the kids didn't cut themselves on anything), and covered in just plain construction paper. I gave the kids stickers and markers to help them decorate with. The bookmarks were donated foam bookmarks that we also decorated with stickers and markers.
The two great stories we read were:
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| Pencil cups all ready to go! |
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| Pencil cake. Not exactly how I intended it to look, but not bad. |
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| Our finished pencil cups. |
We have gotten a few more letters done. Right now I'm trying to catch up with the lower case letters so that they are the same. We are almost there! The kids are really having fun with these, and ask just about every other day when we can do more. I did realize while I was taking the pictures that L put his lower case d backwards. Oh well. What can you do, right? For more info and ideas on the letters, check out Totally Tots blog! They are amazing!
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| c is for chameleon |
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| d is for daisy |
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| H is for House |
I have started to do a Homeschool Preschool since I can't afford to send the kids to one. I have found so many amazing websites. The one that I totally stole these from is Totally Tots. This site is an amazing resource to have if you are trying to teach little ones. We started to just do the Capital letters, but are now working to catch up with the lowercase as well. When we are all done with our letters, I am going to put them in plastic sleeves and then into binders. That way each kid has made their very own alphabet book, that they can look through when ever they like. And just what am I going to do with the ones I made? Well Christmas is coming and I have a new little niece. You put the two together!
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| a is for apple |
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| A is for Alligator |
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| b is for butterfly |
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| B is for Bumblebee |
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| C is for Crab |
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| D is for Dinosaur |
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| E is for Elephant |
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| F is for Fox |
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| G is for Goat |
