Shape Dinosuar

We finished up our dinosaur theme today by making a shape dinosaur.  An activity like this can be incorporated into almost any theme to reinforce shapes, colors, counting, etc.

Here’s what you’ll need: various shapes cut out of construction paper, a piece of construction paper to glue everything onto and glue.

Glue the shapes onto the paper.  Make sure to talk about colors and shapes and count the pieces as your child adds them on.

Here’s Hailey’s finished shape dinosaur.

Easter Wreath

Since we are busy trying to find a new house and trying to pack up our current house I am sharing a craft with you from last year.  Hailey made this when she was 17 months old.

You will need a paper plate or a large piece of card stock, construction paper, scissors, and glue.

Cut out the center of the paper plate or the card stock (which is what I used because I was out of paper plates). Cut egg shapes out of different colored construction paper. Then let the kids decorate the eggs with crayons, markers and stickers.

Of course I had to cut the “eggs” out (I think age 3 is probably the right time to start allowing children to try out scissors on their own). But, Hailey did the coloring and even the gluing herself. While we were working on this acitivity I made sure to talk about the oval shape of the eggs as well as the circle shape of the wreath. I also made note of the colors of the eggs and the colors of the crayons Hailey was using. She LOVED it and cried when we were all done. So, here are some pictures of the fun.

Hailey was so proud when she saw her Easter Egg wreath hanging up.

Shape Truck

Our theme this week is transportation.  We started out today making a truck using a variety of shapes and colors.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper to glue your truck on, a variety of shapes in different colors and glue.

Glue the shapes on to the construction paper to make the truck.

Our finished truck.  This project is great for reinforcing shapes and colors!

Letter of the Week- Letter G

Hailey is finally healthy enough to do some activities so we are finally back!  Hopefully we’ll be back to stay this time- no more getting sick.

I am going to be doing things a little bit differently though.  In the past I was trying to do way too many things with Hailey in one week.  We did a letter project almost every day as well as a project relating to our theme, a number, shape and color activity, a Bible story activity, and more.  It was getting to be too much for me to plan and get everything together.  So, we will be doing less art activities than we were doing before.

So, getting back into our letter each week- this week is the letter G.  I got this idea from No Time for Flashcards (I get almost all of my letter of the week activities from Allie- she has such cute ideas and Hailey always loves them).

Here’s what we made:

You’ll need: green paper with the letter G on it, gold (yellow) paper, glittery paint, and something to paint with.

Hailey loved painting the G.  I told her that we used Green paper because green starts with G and that we used Glitter paint because that starts with G.

The completed Glittery G.