Caps for Sale

We have been having so much fun picking a book each week and doing activities based on that book. Our latest book was Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina.  We read the same book everyday, which is just what Hunter loves to do.  Then, I plan art projects and various activities based on the story we read.  Sometimes Hunter cooperates and wants to do the activities and other times he says he just wants to play.  Here are some of the things we did:

Hailey read the book to Hunter and they both really enjoyed the story.  We also found it on YouTube and Hunter liked watching it there when Hailey and I were not available to read it to him.

Hunter tried to balance a book on his head, the way the man in the story balanced the caps on his head.  It was definitely harder than he thought it was going to be.

I went into Hunter’s room and came out with all of his hats on my head, holding a fake mustache, and saying, “Caps for sale!  50 cents a cap!”  Hailey and Hunter thought it was pretty funny, so they both had to try it too.

Hailey selling some caps.

Hunter selling some caps.

In the story the monkeys take the caps away from the man.  Monkeys eat bananas, so I wanted to come up with a banana snack to go along with the story.  I saw the idea to make chocolate covered bananas at Delightful Learning.  We didn’t follow her directions but they still turned out nice and yummy!

I also saw this idea at Delightful Learning.  Hunter painted a tree brown,

then we glued it onto some paper, and he made monkeys using his fingerprints.

Hunter insisted that the tree needed the man and his caps- so we added those too.

We made this lapbook about monkeys last year in Tot School, so I pulled it back out and we had fun looking at all of the monkey activities he did.

Caps for Sale is cute book and we enjoyed reading it and doing all these fun activities!

Preschool- Letter N

Our last focus letter was the letter N and we did some fun activities to learn all about N.

Hunter had a lot of fun painting a letter N.

I drew a moon and stars on cardstock with a white crayon.  Then I had Hunter use water colors to paint and watch the moon and stars show up to make a night sky.  We put “N is for night” on the paper.

Hunter used noodles (spaghetti) to paint a letter N.

I made some extra noodles (spaghetti) for Hunter to use in a sensory bin, but he wanted to eat them instead.

Hunter glued cut up pieces of newspaper onto the letter N.

He practiced cutting- he was cutting out newts to glue onto the N that he painted with noodles.

He ate M&Ms with a nut inside.  He decided he prefers the M&Ms without a nut.

We made a necklace with cereal.

Hunter very carefully painted this letter N using a q-tip.

He added pegs to the N.

Hunter loves Ninja Turtles- so we made hand print Ninja Turtles.

We had fun learning all about the letter N.

(All letter N printables are from Confessions of a Homeschooler, 1+1+1=1, and Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.)

There are Monsters Everywhere

Hunter loves books about monsters, so we did a fun little unit all about monsters.

We love Mercer Mayer books- so we read “There are Monsters Everywhere,” “There’s a Nightmare in my Closet,” and “There’s Something in my Attic.”

Here are some of the activities we did:

Hailey wanted to make this project with us- first you make some drops of paint on cardstock.

Then fold it in half and press down (wearing your monster pajamas, of course).

Open it up and add some eyes

These are the fun monsters Hailey and Hunter made.

Hunter had a monster snack- he knew right away it was supposed to be Mike from Monsters Inc.

When we read “There are Monsters Everywhere” the little boy in the story learns karate so he can scare the monsters off.  So, Hunter practiced his karate moves.

Hailey tried out her karate moves too.

Hunter wearing some monster feet and pretending to be a monster.

We made a little monster snack.  Hailey and Hunter put a piece of baking chocolate onto a pretzel.

Then we baked them for a few minutes, until the chocolate started to melt.  When we took them out we added a candy eye, then put them in the refrigerator until the chocolate hardened.

They aren’t very scary looking monsters, but they were yummy.

Hunter practiced his cutting to make spots for a monster craft.

The finished monster.

We had so much fun with our monster theme!!  Hunter asked to read the books everyday- they are his favorite books!

Preschool- Letter U

We are focusing on the letters in Hunter’s name right now. We recently finished up the letter U.

Here is a look at just a few of the activities we did:

Hunter used colored pencils to color a letter U paper.

I couldn’t think of anything fun to glue onto the letter U, so I just had Hunter stamp the letter U onto this U paper.

He used Do-a-Dot markers to stamp his U wand.  He did pretty good just marking the U.

Hunter used chalk to color this letter U paper.

He did a good job tracing the outline of the letter U.

He wore his letter U crown while playing with the pattern blocks.

Hunter loves to build!

Hunter used water colors to paint a coffee filter, which we turned into an umbrella.

U is for umbrella craft.

Come back to see the other fun activities we have been doing at Our Crafts N Things!

(All letter U printables are from Confessions of a Homeschooler, 1+1+1=1, andEnchanted Homeschooling Mom.)