Little Green Frog

Hunter has been learning the color green this month, so when I saw this adorable frog craft at Step into 2nd Grade with Mrs. Lemons I just had to make it with Hailey and Hunter.

First up you’ll need some construction paper, glue, a sharpie and a pencil.  (The pencil is really just to wrap the red paper around, which will later be used for the frog’s tongue.)

Hailey glued the frog shape onto her paper and then added the paper for where the eyes would go.  We used a little bit lighter shade of green for where his eyes would go.

Hailey used a sharpie to color black circles on the white paper for the actual eyeballs and then glued them into place.

Hailey drew a mouth and added the tongue and bow.

Hunter’s frog, same thing minus the bow.

I think they turned out super cute!

We have also been singing The Little Green Frog:

Mmm mmm went the little green frog one day
Mmm mmm went the little green frog
Mmm mmm went the little green frog one day
And they all went mmm mmm ahhh!!

But we all know frogs go ladedadeda
ladedadeda ladedadeda
We all know frogs go ladedadeda
ladedadeda ladedadeda
They don’t go mmm mmm ahh.

Hailey and Hunter both love this song!!

Oranizing the Craft Closet

This is my craft/art project supply closet.  I really hate this closet- it is up much too high and it is really deep.  The bottom shelf is at my eye level and is pretty much the only shelf I can comfortably reach.  The shelves are really deep, so there is no way I can reach anything at the back of the shelves, even if they are on the bottom.  Plus that wooden beam in the middle is always getting in my way.  We have lived here for almost 4 years and I have re-organized this closet so many times, but it always gets messy again because it is so hard to put things away.  This is my newest organization- everything is in a bin and everything is labeled.  I am really hoping this helps!

Here is a closer look at the left side- the top shelf has bins that relate to themes I use at certain times of the year- they are organized by months- September-November, December- February, etc.  Since I practically need a ladder to get things down off this shelf it is best to keep those bins up there.  When I am using one I will keep it in the open space on the bottom shelf.  The middle shelf and bottom shelf have different items we use for art projects.  As long as I force myself to put things away as soon as we are done using them then I think this will work.  Right now there is a lot of wasted space behind the bins, but since I can’t reach anything back there I am just leaving it empty.

 Here is a closer look at the right side.  Again- the bins on the top aren’t used very often.  The other shelves have bins with pull out drawers full of craft supplies.

 I am hoping I can keep this organized, right now I can find everything I need and that is a wonderful thing!

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Tot School

Hunter is 15 months old

Our theme this week was the color green and St. Patrick’s Day

 I put yellow and blue paint in a Ziploc bag and then used painter’s tape to stick it on the table.  I also covered the seal of the Ziploc bag with packaging tape for some extra reinforcement to make sure it stayed shut.

 Hunter thought it was great!

 Hailey joined us with her own bag and practiced writing some words on hers.

 Hunter loved playing with his!

Hunter made a picture using a green do-a-dot marker.  He loves using these and is never happy when it’s time to put them away.

Hailey had fun making a rainbow.

Hunter was really into our art projects this week and had a blast doing all of them!

We made a puffy paint shamrock (see the full post here) and Hunter had so much fun and made a nice big mess.

 The green collage shamrock turned out cute (see full post here).

Hunter had fun making his pot of gold too (see full post here).

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Saint Patrick’s Day Fun

Here is a quick look back at our week and all of the fun St. Patrick’s Day activities we did, with links to the original posts.

 We made Collage Shamrocks.

Our Puffy Paint Shamrocks turned out so cute!

 Hailey had a lot of making this End of the Rainbow craft.

Hunter had fun making this Pot of Gold (and also eating the paint!).

 We made green Discovery Bottles filled with different St. Patrick’s Day items and green materials.

Hunter loves his Shamrock Suncatcher that he made.

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