Homemade Pok-e-moji Valentines

Valentine's Day Celebrations! 

Sienna has been wanting to do a lot of "actibies" lately. This is a fox made out of heart shaped pieces.

Here's her award-winning Valentine's bag.

She went to a party with the ward play group, but I stayed home with sick Arthur. She took it upon herself to help out a little friend who was not having a good time.

Valentine's cakepop!

Maggie's Pokeball bag, and emoji Valentine's Day cards.  She drew a different emoji on each card. A lot of effort put into her homemade valentines this year!

Dalton also made a Pokeball bag and emoji valentines.  He made yellow heart-shaped valentines with heart eyes.

Valentine's Day detritus. 

And our traditional pic while getting John a sandwich from Mustard Cafe.

Preschool

Elephant handprints

Halloween playdough

Gak

Hedgehogs

Baking muffins

Valentine's Day cookies

Paper butterflies.

Nailed it.

 Tickling Arthur's toes

Watching seeds sprout

Field trip to the zoo.

Building fairy houses.

Home Preschool: Circle Theme

We made treat necklaces with circle treats and cereal for our Circle Theme home preschool. 2 years ago.

Home Preschool: Names

This week was my last week in charge of our home preschool group. We finished the ABCs so this week our theme was "names".  We made our names using marker, yarn, cooked spaghetti, playdough, washi tape, and shaving cream.

The patience they had with the yarn was extraordinary.

Turned out great!

Spaghetti names.

I printed some name worksheets for them to do.

Here's one example of the spaghetti, washi tape and play dough.

Home Preschool: Letter W is for Water and Watermelon

First off, here is a letter T tree and tulip craft from a few weeks ago.

Today we did W is for Watermelon and Water.

The kids painted on the sidewalk with water for 45 minutes. Brilliant. And free.

I gave them rectangles of red and green and they cut out watermelon shapes and glued them together. Then I punched holes and gave them a piece of black yarn to make seeds. This is an activity I did with Maggie's Letter W home preschool back in India. I should have looked at that post because I couldn't figure out how I got holes in the middle of the watermelon. Also, other good W ideas. Oh well.

And then we had real watermelon slices!

I sure love all these sweet kids.

We also had vanilla Wafers with our snack.