Last year we made these fun fingerprint and footprint flags for Flag Day! The kids had a blast and they hung on our back doors through the 4th of July. This was the one my then 5 year old made. She only used one foot for the footprints so she wouldn't get red paint on the white stripes. :) The then 3 year old obviously had to put both feet in the paint, but still managed to walk in a pretty straight line! They also did 50 blue fingerprints to … [Read more...]
Story Prop Bag Comprehension Activity
Good readers need to be able to recall and retell story events in order to understand what they are reading. A fun way to practice these skills with young readers is to create a story prop bag. They are super easy to make! Before reading the story to kids you gather a bunch of items that are found in the story and put them in a bag. Then when it's time to read you pull out the items one by one for the children to look at, touch, and think about. … [Read more...]
Dine with a Character: Muffin Tins with Moose!
We have been taking part in My Little Bookcase's The Little Book Adventure and really enjoyed challenge #2, leaving letters in library books for the next reader. This month's challenge is to dine with a book character--so much fun! We could not wait to get started! We actually chose which character we were going to dine with one night while we were eating. We have been doing Muffin Tin Mondays and the kids decided that a muffin tin meal would be … [Read more...]
Naked Mole Rat Play Dough Activity
This month's Virtual Book Club for Kids author is Mo Willems. We love Mo Willems here and ended up reading, and rereading, 4 of his books last week--The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, and Pigs Make Me Sneeze! Such great reads, we definitely recommend all of them! Once of the most reread books was Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed. It's the story of a naked mole rat who likes to wear clothes. In fact he … [Read more...]
Tinkerlab Creative Challenge: Flower Projects
It's time for another Tinkerlab Creative Challenge! The kids love these challenges so much that sometimes I will find them "hosting" their own challenges for each other or their friends. And I adore watching each of their creative processes. Seeing how they create and modify and recreate until they are satisfied is fantastic. You can actually see how they are thinking. This month's creative material is flowers. I have to say that for me this … [Read more...]
Batman Birthday Party!
Someone turned 4 last week!!! And had his heart set on a Batman themed birthday party. So, we ordered some cool Batman capes from Sew Plain Jane and invited his friends and cousins over to have some fun! At the last minute I made the girls Batman shirts using Heat and Bond and some polka dot material. The birthday boy is, of course, already well stocked in the superhero shirt department! We had a bounce house and Batman tattoos for the kids to … [Read more...]
Tangled Art Birthday Party!
When my niece turned 6 a couple months ago my sister threw her the coolest Tangled art party! They planned tons of fun activities and we had a blast! When the kids arrived they each got to decorate their own art smock and play pin the bow on the braid. The yarn braid is not only a fun party game, but would be a great place to store clip and ribbons in a bedroom or bathroom. Once the smocks were ready they put them on and headed out back to make … [Read more...]
Caterpillar Puppet and Song
We have been caterpillar and butterfly obsessed around here! We ordered caterpillars from Insect Lore and have loved watching the the caterpillar life cycle in action. We have lots of caterpillar books, but the favorite this year is A Caterpillar Grows Up by Melvin and Gilda Berger. They love the photos and one of their favorite facts is that caterpillars have 12 eyes. So when we were making our caterpillar puppet the first thing we added were the … [Read more...]
