F is for Farm

We talked about the letter "F" all week and focused on Farms. We did lots of fun activities. We of course made our farm mobiles and our muddy pigs. We also made these cute little sheep.The kids had fun matching up the animal parts in this file folder game that I made for them.They also made matches and we attempted to play memory with these cards that I printed and cut.We tried to play with our farm animal lacing cards. My boys are not a huge fan of these. They seem to get bored with them pretty quickly.The boys always enjoy doing puzzles. And here Brodie is putting together his farm animal puzzle. Next week we are talking about the letter "L" and will be focusing on leaves.

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Farm Mobile

Here is another craft we did this week for our farm theme. It is our version of a farm mobile. You can go here to print off the template.

I had the boys color the pictures with markers. I cut them out and then we hole punched them and tied yarn to them. Since we really don't have anyplace good to hang a mobile (all of my nails in the walls are occupied right now) we decided to just tape them to our chandelier in the dining room. Drew's is dangling from the lamp in the living room.

Here is a picture of Brodie's mobile.

Muddy Pigs

No this is not a post about my children, well I guess it is actually!

This is a craft we did this morning. We are still talking about the letter "F". The focus this week is Farms. I really wanted to take a trip to the Cambridge Apple Orchard/Farm but the weather has been so chilly. Looks like this weekend will be nice so maybe we will head up there then. In the meantime we have had lots of fun so far this week with Farm related activities.

These are our muddy pigs. I printed off the template here. First we colored our pigs with pink markers. Then I had them paint over them with brown paint (that I had to quickly look up online to see how to make since I only had primary colors! How quickly you forget those things. For those of you wondering it is yellow, red and blue.)

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F is for Frog

We started the letter "F" this week. We have been talking alot about frogs. You can go here to find lots of coloring sheets to print on frogs. I printed some off and the kids had fun painting them green. We watched an interesting video on the rare Golden Frog here.

Here is the collection of books we have been looking at. Some from the public library and some from our own library.We talked about how a frog starts off as an egg then changes into a tadpole, grows legs and becomes a frog. We colored this worksheet and cut out the pictures and glued them to cards. Then Brodie put them in order. You could also use this worksheet. It shows more stages of development.

I came up with this game. It helps us work on our numbers. The kids are great counters but number recognition is where we need help. They had lots of fun with this. I used card stock and cut out lillypads. I numbered them 1-10. I gave each boy a rubber frog then I would call out a number and they would find it and place their frog on the correct lillypad.
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Firetruck Craft

This week we are focusing on the letter "C" mainly (you could use this craft for the letter "F" as well). My theme for the week and possible next week will be community helpers. Today we discussed firefighters and what they do to help our community. We also discussed what we do if we see a fire or smoke. To go along with our discussion we read a couple books and we made these firetrucks out of egg cartons.Items you will need include an egg carton, red paint with brush, pipe cleaner, black construction paper, picture of child or picture from magazines, scissors and glue.1. First cut the lid off the egg carton. Have the child paint the carton red. Allow to dry.
2. Cut 2 circles out of black paper for wheels and glue to bottom of carton.
3. Cut picture out and put in upper right corner for driver.
4. Cut up and bend pipecleaner to make ladder.
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Flag Craft

Here is a craft we did for the fourth of July. We made flags using construction paper and sequence. I cut out strips of red paper. The boys glued them onto the white cardstock. I cut out a small rectangle and had them smear on glue and sprinkle blue sequence on for the stars. They glued this onto the upper left corner of the paper. This was our version of the American flag.