Archive for July, 2008
Duck Stamping
Jul
Yesterday I showed you the felt board activity that we did to go along with The 5 Little Ducks song. Today I’m sharing another duck craft we did. I saw this over at one of my new favorite sites- No Time for Flashcards (if you haven’t been to this site yet you just have to check it out).
Here’s what you’ll need- paper, a duck and a stamp pad. (As a side note- my stamp pads are for kids and are non-toxic. But they were missing the all important word “washable.” So you might want to make sure you get washable stamp pads. I’m just sayin’)
Give the items to your child and let the creativity flow. Hailey is working on figuring out exactly how it is working.
Having fun stamping the paper.
While I turned my head for about 2 seconds, Hailey picked up the stamp pad and stamped her face.
The finished duck stamping piece of art.
Five Little Ducks
Jul
I’ve never met a child who didn’t love music and Hailey is no exception to that. So for the next few weeks I am going to be doing a bunch of activities all related to some of her favorite songs. First up- is Five Little Ducks… an adorable song about five little ducks who go out to play and then don’t listen to their mommy duck when she tells them to come back. If you haven’t heard the song- check out this Five Little Ducks link to watch it on YouTube.
Hailey absolutely loves this song, so I decided we should make some pieces for our felt board so that she can play with the pieces while we sing it.
Here’s what you’ll need: 5 little ducks and a mommy duck, some crayons and not pictured- contact paper, scissors, glue and felt.
Hailey colored the ducks.
Then I put contact paper on the front side of the ducks.
Glue the backs of the ducks to a piece of felt or Velcro.
After the glue dries, cut out the ducks and put them on your felt board. (My felt board is just a big piece of felt nailed to a wall in Hailey’s play room.) Then I sang the song to Hailey showing her how we could move the ducks to go along with the words of the song.
And Hailey loved it!
And here’s the words, just in case you need them:
Five Little Ducks
Five little ducks went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
but only four little ducks came back…
Four little ducks went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
but only three little ducks came back…
Three little ducks went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
but only two little ducks came back…
Two little ducks went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
but only one little duck came back…
One little duck went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
but no little ducks came back…
Mama duck went out one day
Over the hills and far away
Mama duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack,”
and five little ducks came back.
Vacation Memories
Jul
We recently returned from vacation. Whenever we talked about something we had done on our vacation Hailey would act like she was thinking about it and trying to remember. So I decided to create a simple little photo album for her to help her remember the fun we had.
First I found a cheap photo album (I actually already had it, but I’m sure you can find them at the dollar store). Then I printed out some of Haileys favorite pictures and printed out some captions to go with the pictures.
Then I glued the captions onto the pictures and let them dry.
I put them into a photo album.
Finally I showed Hailey her Summer Vacation 2008 photo album. And she loves it!
Tags: photo album, Toddler and Preschool Activities, vacation memories
A Box Full of Fun
Jul
We just came home yesterday after being gone for a week and a half on vacation. We are getting back into our routine but we didn’t do anything crafty today. While we were on vacation we stayed at Matt and Ellie’s house (my brother and sister-in-law) and we had lots of fun. So, I wanted to share a fun project that Hailey and her Aunt Ellie did while we were staying there.
Ellie had saved a nice big box for Hailey so that they could make a house.
At first Hailey would not go inside the box. So she worked from the outside decorating her house. Aunt Ellie made lots of fun pictures inside the house, cut out windows and even made a skylight.
Hailey finally decided to go into the house- so here are Hailey and Aunt Ellie working very hard on the decorations. They closed the door to keep the final look a secret.
As you can see Hailey loved her house.
I didn’t actually get a picture of the final house- there were more windows and lots more decorations but I forgot to take a picture before we left. Anyhoo- you can still see how much fun this was for Hailey. I am on the lookout for a big box now so we can make one to play with at home. Thanks for such a fun time Ellie!