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More Caterpillar Fun

26
Aug

Since we are watching our caterpillars turn into butterflies I have been doing several caterpillar activities with Hailey. Yesterday you got to see our Egg Carton Caterpillar and today I’m showing you how we wrote Hailey’s name for this fun craft.

Here’s what you’ll need: Several different colors of construction paper, something to draw a circle with (I used the Pringles container), scissors, marker, glue, items to use for eyes, nose, mouth and antenna on your caterpillar.

Cut out enough circles to have one for each letter in your child’s name and an extra one for the head of the caterpillar. Keep the green piece whole for the background.

Write your child’s name on the circles, leaving one circle for the head.

Glue the letters on, add the face and decorate it.

Here is the finished caterpillar (with some legs drawn on).

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April Ideas

11
Apr

I try to do other things with Hailey, besides the crafts that I take pictures of to share here. So, I thought I’d give a brief summary of the non-craft activities we have done or that I plan to do with Hailey this month.

I created cards with pictures of adult and baby animals on them. Then we matched up the babies with their mommies.
We are going to plant some grass seed and take pictures as it grows. (It’s still been a little bit chilly here, but hopefully we can start this in the next couple of weeks.)
Play matching and sorting games with these umbrellas.
I have a Randy the Raindrop story that I am going to use on a flannel board (that I still need to make). I’ll take pictures of it when I actually do it.
Make dice with farm animals on them. Then sing “Old MacDonald” and roll the die to see which animal we will use for that verse.

Raindrop writing- practice the letters in Hailey’s name using these raindrops. The reason the raindrops are white is that is the color I am focusing on this month.