Archive for June, 2013
Fourth of July Suncatcher Fail (Kind of)
Jun
I saw some super cute red, white and blue suncatchers at Beneath My Heart. I showed them to Hailey and she said she definitely wanted to make them. So, I got everything ready to make the suncatchers.
I used a baking pan, star shaped cookie cutters, parchment paper and beads.
Put the wax paper on the baking pan and then put the star shaped cookie cutters on there.
Fill the with red, white, blue and clear beads.
Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes. It’s a little stinky near the end, but not too bad.
Once your suncatchers have cooled, pop them right out of the cookie cutters. Or not. Ours would not and will not come out. The directions said they should pop right out, but ours are stuck. As I look closer at the pictures in the directions, I they used a different kind of bead. We used the kind that you can iron and they melt together. That is the only thing I can think of that would make the difference is they used a different kind of bead. I even tried prying the cookie cutters off with pliers and the beads are very stuck!
So, here are our completed suncatchers. Even though they didn’t turn out like we planned we still had fun making them and Hailey and Hunter had fun playing with the completed project, so that’s all that matters 🙂
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Fourth of July Watercolor Activity
Jun
This was a simple and fun activity for the 4th of July.
You’ll need- cardstock, or watercolor paper, glue, star shaped sponge and a paper plate.
Put a small pool of glue on the paper plate, then have your child dip the sponge into the glue and make stamps on the paper. Hailey made one for her and Hunter since I knew Hunter would just smear the glue all over his paper.
When the glue is dry (we waited until the next day) add some red and blue water color to your paper. The glue will resist the the water color, leaving a pretty design.
Hailey’s completed 4th of July watercolor.
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Poppins Book Nook- Traveling With Stanley
Jun
The theme for the month of June for the Poppins Book Nook was travel/transportation. It took me a while to figure out what we could do to go along with that theme. One day while I was at Barnes and Noble I looked at some Flat Stanley books and knew that would be the perfect book for the theme.
We have never read any of the Flat Stanley books, so we picked “Flat Stanley His Original Adventure” by Jeff Brown. We also bought one of the chapter books to read too. After we read the book, Hailey made her own Flat Stanley.
I found a template of Flat Stanley on Commerce Library Kids and printed it out for Hailey to color.
When she finished coloring him, I went on facebook with this picture and asked our friends and family if Stanley could come and visit them. Thanks to so many people offering to help us, Stanley has a very busy summer lined up 🙂
His first adventure was with us, we had a wedding to attend. Hailey and Stanley were all ready to go.
If you look closely you can see Stanley behind the seat belt, watching a movie with Hailey.
Stanley was very good at the reception- he sat in the chair and watched all the people 🙂
After the wedding Stanley left on his next adventure. Hailey’s Aunt Ellie took him to visit Delaware and Washington DC.
Stanley went to physical therapy with Aunt Ellie. It looks like he had fun and I’m sure he learned a lot 🙂
Stanley had quite the adventure in Washington DC and was able to see the Jefferson Memorial and Tidal Basin.
He also stopped for a visit at the Lincoln Memorial.
Stanley also went on a bike ride (and wore his helmet, of course!) to visit the University of Delaware.
He sure has been busy with Aunt Ellie, and looks like he has really enjoyed himself!
I ordered a map of the United States for us to use to mark off the different places that Stanley visits. We haven’t received it yet, but when we get it we will add the fun places that Stanley has gone.
Stanley is headed off to Utah next and has a lot of fun filled adventures coming up this summer, so make sure you stop back to see what he’s up to.
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Check out some (or all!) of the other bloggers participating in Poppins Book Nook:
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom – Royal Baloo – 3 Dinosaurs – Monsters Ed – Chestnut Grove Academy – Growing in God’s Grace – Royal Little Lambs – Life with Moore Babies – Teach Beside Me – The Usual Mayhem – Mum Central – Fantastic Fun and Learning – Kathys Cluttered Mind – Play Create Explore – Toddler Approved – Growing Book by Book – Adventures in Mommydom – B-Inspired Mama – The Fairy and The Frog – Edventures with Kids – Learning & Growing the Piwi way – A Gluten Free Journey – Mom to Crazy Monkeys – No Doubt Learning – Preschool Powol Packets – To The Moon and Back – Our Craft ~N~ Things – Farm Fresh Adventures – Proverbial Homemaker
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Tot School
Jun
Hunter is 18 months old.
Last week our focus for Tot School was on the color blue and the 4th of July.
Hunter made a blue sun catcher to add to our window of sun catchers.
Hunter pointing out the color blue.
Coloring with a blue marker (and possibly tasting it too).
Hunter loves the do-a-dot markers!
We made a red, white and blue discovery bottle.
Hunter enjoyed playing with it for a few minutes. Then he handed it to me and didn’t want it anymore.
Blue sensory bin
Hunter thought he was helping Hailey make these Fireworks, but the top was really on the spray bottle 😉
Hunter enjoyed making a Fourth of July Star Wand.
Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots were up to this week.
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