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Thursday, April 15

Play outdoors- Burrito & rice party

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Our outside play was limited to a burrito and rice picnic party! We had to run a lot of errands so we ate lunch outside today.


burrito


rice


and then play time with the fallen branches.


River said, "Did you know that the tree made these branch sticks?" then he paused for a moment, "But you know Mama, Jesus made these sticks."


One of my newly loved CDs is called Picnic Playground by Putumayo Kids.
(We have been listening to it all week)
It is a "Musical treat from around the World." And let me tell you it is the best
Putumayo kids CDs we have ever listened to.




We are participating in the great outdoor challenge hosted by the blog 5 orange potatoes 
 

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Thursday, April 8

giant toothbrush

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We have been listening to Raffi's "Singable songs for the very young" a few of our favorites are: Willoughby wallaby woo ...an elephant sat an you, Old Macdonald had a band, Down by the bay, and Brush your teeth. These songs are such great classics and I'm not quite sure why we haven't spent much time listening to them before, but River knows how to work the CD player so we listen to "Elephant sat on you" song at least 6 times in a row before moving to the other songs.

This giant toothbrush we made so when we listen to Brush you teeth, we can pretend with our toothbrushes as we dance around.

The materials we used.....

cardboard, toothbrush (the 6-pack from the dollar tree), paint, scissors, and a shallow water dish to wash out the paint


I cut out the cardboard toothbrush (It was a little too big)


River cut the slits to make the bristles


He said, "The cardboard is crunchy, so it's hard for my kid scissors to cut through". So he used the universal kitchen scissors which worked better. (I use my cheap IKEA kitchen scissors for everything)


I folded the bristles back and forth


He actually did use the toothbrush with the 
bristles down to paint, most of the time :)
He started with the blue paint, his interest waned at times and I think it was due to the fact we was using a toothbrush and it didn't spread the paint out like he was used to. Until I showed him the "push- down-hard-with-all-your-muscles" technique.


While River was painting he asked where mine was...so I made mine. I think a smaller toothbrush would have been better for him, like this one.


River's giant toothbrush


The difference in size you can see here

It was a fun project using a toothbrush to paint!


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Saturday, March 13

Some St. Patrick's Day Week Activities

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*Paint an old yogurt container black to be the pot to hold gold/treats. Add a rainbow to the lid, so the child literally has to find the gold under the rainbow.

*Make a leprechaun scavenger hunt using real photos, or drawn pictures to be the clues. At each clue have another picture hint to help find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.



*For imaginative story time use the following items: leprechaun, gold coins, green hat, clovers, etc.

*Dance around to irish music while doing jigs.

Double Play by Liz Carroll and Jon Doyle (great fiddling)
25 Best Celtic Favorites by Madsey Entertainment (great variety of Classic Irish Favorites, with singing and without)
Celtic Dreamland by Putumayo Kids (the music was really slow, not good to dance around to)
Pandora music station-
Riverdance and Lord of the Dance films and soundtracks

*I will have a little leprechaun print out to use if you would like. Also I hear that cutting a green pepper in half and dipping it in paint, using it as a stamper, adding on the stem, makes fun clovers.

* The Letter G, is G the Goose Giggles. So we will paint the goose green and gold, and play duck-duck-goose. Our word list will include green, gold, goodies, giggles, goofy, grazing, gobbled (taken from the Letter G story on the back of the flipchart.) I don't think I will use the Letter G activity found in the Activity Book.

*The # 4 will be the number this week. Using 2,3, or 4 leaf clovers have the children decide which are the lucky 4 leaf clovers. (Hint: I hear using hearts as your clover outline works well)

There will be additional posted ideas from other group members. So this should be a really fun week with the letter G, being incorporated in with St. Patty's Day!!)

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