Zoo Week!

This week our playgroup hit the zoo since the weather has been amazing finally. So we continud the theme into preschool. I did the letters G for giraffe and Z for zebra. It was a mild disaster this week. Our lil buddy's mom blew a tire on the way over so she had to hang out waiting for tow and it was just a lot of distractions for the girls. But such is life and we roll with it! We still made it through a few crafts :)

First up I cut out big letter G's and girraffes on yelolw cardstock and Z's and zebras on white with my Cricut. Then we stuck the Z and zebra in a box with several dots of black paint, added a marble, closed it up and shook it all up to make zebra strips!








The Gs and giraffes I gave the girls brown paint and they gave them fingerprint spots.












Last thing we made it to was lion masks. I cut holes in paper plates, cut strips of yellow and brown tone carstock and cut out ear shapes in brown. I hot glued a popsicle stick and the ears on. The I put a bunch of glue around the paper plate for the girls and they put the strips on for the mane. They weren't too into this craft as they were pretty distracted but Z baby did pretty well and she still plays with it and puts it up to her face and ROARS. All in all still a really fun morning!

A is for Apple

This week we went with the theme of A and 1. I failed to get to the number 1 but we did lots of A! I went with A is for apple.

First up we painted apple trees! I cut big sheets off of a large paper roll I have and drew a tree(ish) outline on it. Trunk and a few branches. I cut an apple in half and gave each girl one half. They painted the apple red and then used it like a stamp. Sort of anyway ;) Then I cut apple slices which they were supposed to use the same way but paint green to make leaves. That part was a fail as both girls hate getting their hands dirty so they stamped once and then couldn't pick up the slice without getting their hands dirty so they refused. So instead they just painted leaves however they wanted. Next up they painted the trunks. I explained the base of the tree is called the tree trunk. To which our lil buddy said "like an elephant!" gotta love little kids! Anyway that was our apple trees!

After that we made apple cake. I used this RECIPE. I WAY overcooked it. It says to go until it tests done. Well I think the moisture from the apples made it appear still uncooked when it really was done. So we had super crunchy apple cake lol. The middle was soft and it still tasted good and both girlies ate it. They had fun dumping the ingredients in and watching the mixer.

After that we glued shredded paper onto an apple shape. Both this and the apple trees were good lessons on listening to directions. They had to listen and put the correct colors in the correct places. Obviously they are 2&3 so not a big deal if they wanted a brown apple instead of red but I think its good to try and encourage them to listen to directions. And they really did pretty well. They also colored apple pictures with crayons and had free reign to use any color their hearts desired :)

An apple a day!