Supposed to be a Marbled Egg

I saw a really cute marbled egg in one of my Mailbox magazines so I thought we would give it a try.

First we grated up some colored chalk using the smallest part on the cheese grater.

Hailey dumped the chalk onto a cookie sheet.  The cookie sheet had water in it, just enough to cover the bottom of it.

Then she swirled the colors using a straw

and put an egg shaped piece of construction paper into the pan.

It was supposed to look marbled.  It didn’t.

It looked speckled.

Then Hailey did another one and pushed down more, so it made little finger prints.

It didn’t look anything like it was supposed to, but Hailey had fun anyways.  In case you’re curious- here is what it looked like in the magazine:

Yeah- just a little different

Easter Egg

We made another egg today for our Easter theme.

I mixed food coloring with evaporated milk and had Hailey use it to paint a pattern on the egg.  I had planned to use condensed milk since it’s thicker, but didn’t realize I didn’t have any until it was time to do the project.

The finished pattern.

Then Hailey tipped the egg a little bit to let the colors run.  If we had used condensed milk as planned it wouldn’t have mixed as much and I think it would have given the effect I had hoped for.

The finished egg.

Water Colored Easter Egg

We are started our Easter activities today with this really simple craft.

I cut an egg shape out of cardstock.  Hailey made some designs on the egg using glue.

We let the glue dry all day.

Then Hailey used watercolors to decorate the egg.

The finished egg.

Letter of the Week- Letter F

Last week our letter was F.  Here are some of the things we did:

F is for Fox from Totally Tots.

F is for fire from Homeschool Creations.

Hailey colored her letter F vocab words.  Then she cut them out and made it into a book.

She circled the letter Ff in this letter hunt story from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Here are some of the thing we did from RRSP:

Hailey colored her verse.

She colored her sight word.  (This word was actually from a different week- we are catching up a few sight words.)

Practicing her letter F words- seeing how quietly she could say them.

The cut and glue craft for the verse.

Other stuff:

Doing a page in her sight word book for the word “for.”

Doing some number 9 work in one of her Disney workbooks.

Doing a clothespin number match from Confessions of a Homeschooler.  Check out the giveaway going on for the K4 Curriculum at Confessions of a Homeschooler!

A lot of times I can only find things like this for 1-10.  So I was really excited that Hailey could get some more practice with 11-20.