Preschool time!

Its been awhile! We welcomed a new little peanut in June :)  Been a whirlwind!

My good friend and I started homeschool preschool last week. I get the girls one day a week for school and she gets them one day a week for school. Not only is it awesome to see them learning but I get a few hours a week to bust out some cleaning and Etsy orders without having to entertain my 3 year old at the same time! Double win for mom :)

So for preschool we are picking a theme each week. Last week was weather because it had rained earlier in the week and had been cloudy. A nice break from our blazing heat! So for my day we did 2 crafts. The first was rain in a jar. Very simple. I used a mason jar for each girl and filled it with some water (don't go all the way full). Then stuck some shaving cream on top. Or if you are forgetful like me and don't check till 11pm the night before to see if you have shaving cream you can use shaving gel. It still works. The "cloud" won't look quite so puffy and you kind of have to wait a few seconds for the gel to go white but it still worked out. Then I gave each girl a small cup with water with food coloring in it. Blue and green worked well. Then they each got a little dropper thing (from oriental trading, not a big fan they break easily but oh well) and got to drop the colored water onto the "cloud" and then watch it rain.

Total hit! Girls loved it so much we did it twice (and they asked to do it again this week too!). They totally missed the learning aspect of water, clouds, rains but hey they are 2 & 3. I was just super surprised there was no mess after we were done!

Next up was sun catchers! I cut out clouds on white cardstock and rain drops on black cardstock. Then I stuck the rain drops on contact paper and cut it to the rain drop shape. Tore up some white, glittered and blue tissue paper and grabbed cotton balls and ribbon.

They glued the cotton balls to the cloud and then stuck the tissue to the rain drops.






 Then I strung them up and voila! I actually love the way it looks and has been hanging on our back door for a week :)

And we also did line and letter tracing. Introduced the letter W for weather. I used some workbooks I got off of Amazon and made copies of the pages we used. And then lastly we had a snack. I put yogurt, PB, honey and a little cinnamon in a bowl for each and then let them mix it up. They got a kick out of "making" their own snack. I gave them graham crackers and apple slices to dip in the yogurt mix. Have to say it was rather yummy. Mommy may have tasted Z baby's a few times :)

 I must say it is very interesting to see the differences in the two girls. 6 months apart and some activities hardly any difference in the two and other things one or the other can be miles ahead of the other. I absolutely love our preschool time and so blessed to have a good friend willing and excited to take this adventure with me!