Funny Fish

We have new a book about counting and animals that the oldest one really likes.

The last page has 10 funny fish.

I noticed that the fish had heart shapes for the fins and lips.

It inspired this craft.

The little one has been drawing for sometime and really enjoys it.

Today I showed her, hand over hand, how to make a circle.

She picked up on it fairly quickly and we ended up with 6 fish, 4 of them were her circles.

She was excited to use the glue stick to attach the hearts.

Great focus and concentration.

Butterflies

Our butterflies have emerged and they have inspired us 

to create our own butterflies.

Old fashioned clothespegs and crepe streamers.

No glue, no scissors needed.

Choose your colours, lay them out and rip.

Squeeze them into the opening of the clothespeg,

squishing them tight so they stay in.

Decide how long your wings will be.

You can rip them to make them shorter

or fold them under.

Next, decorate.

Draw designs on the wings,

use the hot glue gun to add some bling

or just draw a happy face.

Ta da!

Time to fly!

Making Puzzles

Poppers

I have a lot of plastic Easter eggs so when

I saw this fun idea at Teach Beside Me I knew we had to try it.

 My husband pre-drilled the holes in the eggs

 so the children just had to insert the straw

add a pom pom

and blow.

 So many giggles.

I loved watching these two grandmothers helping their little ones

make and then blow.

It became a game of I'll blow and you catch.

Hickory Dickory Dock

This month we are touching on nursery rhymes.

This week we played with Hickory Dickory Dock.

At the art table families found materials with a question,

"Can you make a mouse?"

So what do we do with our mice once they are made?

We made a big paper clock to hang on the wall.

The children attached their mouse and played with the clock hands.

They were encouraged them to think of a rhyming word to go with the number

they chose.