Archive for August, 2009

Letter of the Week- Letter X

31
Aug

We are almost done with the alphabet!  We aren’t doing a lot of crafts as we are busy enjoying the little bit of summer that is left.  We are going on vacation in a couple of weeks and when we get back we’re going to get back into our routine of doing more crafts and learning activities.

Anyhoo- this week I showed Hailey 2 choices for the letter X over at No Time for Flashcards and she wanted to make the “X is for X-Ray” choice.  We did ours a little bit differently, but we got our idea from there.

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Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper- black and white, scissors, crayons, glue and saran wrap.

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Cut out two bones and a boarder.  If your child is a bit older you can have your child help with the cutting.  Since Hailey is almost 3 she is going to start doing a lot more cutting for our projects.

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Color the black paper- we used white and silver.

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Glue the bones on to look like an X.

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Take a piece of saran wrap and lay it on the table, stretched out nice and flat.

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Put the black paper face down on the saran wrap and then tape the extra to the back of the black paper.

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Flip it over and glue on the boarder.

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The finished X is for X-ray.

Letter of the Week- Letter W

25
Aug

Finally!  We’re back with a new craft!!  Yay!!  We’ve been busy getting settled into our new house and enjoying summer. It will probably be a while before I get back to posting every day because we’ve been spending a lot of time playing outside and enjoying the nice weather.  So for now I’ll just post a little bit until we get back into doing more activities this fall.

Since I want to finish the alphabet before fall comes- we did this cute W craft that I found over at No Time for Flashcards.

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Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper- green, pink and yellow, green marker and crayon, glue and watermelon seeds.  If you don’t have watermelon seeds you can just cut some small black ovals for the seeds.

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Cut out 2 Ws.  Make the pink W a bit smaller than the green one.

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Have your child color the green W with the green marker and crayon.

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Glue the green W onto the yellow paper and then glue the pink W on top of the green one.

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Add some seeds to the W.

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The finished “W is for Watermelon.”

Shape Activities

12
Aug

Here are a variety of shape activities we have done over the last year.

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Hailey made a shape dinosaur using a variety of shapes.

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We made a train an added circles for wheels and squares for windows.

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Hailey loved her sailboat and we used a triangle for the sail.

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We made a truck using a variety of shapes.

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Hailey made this fish using all hearts.

This was a shape sorting activity that Hailey enjoyed.

Hailey made circle prints when we were learning about circles.

Song Activities

10
Aug

I still haven’t had time yet to do any crafts with Hailey.  We have almost everything unpacked and I should be able to do some new activities soon.  I thought since I didn’t get a chance to make anything with Hailey today that I would post some of our favorite song related activities from last summer.

We made this to go along with Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

We made a school bus to go with The Wheels on the Bus.

A really cute song is The Little Green Frog and we made a puppet to go along with is.

The Five Little Ducks is fun song and we made a duck pond to go along with it.

See all of our song activities here.

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