sat on her tuffet

i actually had to look up the word tuffet today

for years i thought tuffet was a word for 

butt, bum, bottom...ya know what i am talking about

i was wrong

its a piece of furniture

a low stool 

usually wooden

learn something new everyday!

and in case you are from NYC 

there is a cheese/meat/bar

called TUFFET

back to little miss muffet

sitting on her tuffet

i hope you all know how this goes

well we decided miss muffet needed our help catching all those spiders
so she would not be freighted.

so we "caught" them and put them in a jar!

You can find the jar HERE

we just dipped our thumbs in black paint and then added 8 legs
easy, fun, and the kids thought it was sooo funny!

after we caught all those spiders in the jar

we found more spiders hiding in the "rocks"

the "rocks" is a mixture of mixed beans that 

i got at our local grocery store

the kids found 15 more spiders!

GROOOOSSSSSS!!!!

besides the spiders all you daycare providers and moms

NEED to go out and buy some mixed bean soup 

pour them in a tub of some kind

give them spoons, lids, measuring cups

whatever

 

BUSY for 35mins!

and in my mind

anything that last for more than 5 mins is worth trying!!

yes it made a mess!

and some kids might try a bean or two, or possibly a hand full.

but don't worry if you have a child that likes to clean 

give them a dust pan and that becomes 

more fun than the actual beans!

thankfully i got a kiddo that enjoys cleaning!

after naptime we then made a GIANT spider to frighten  

our moms and dads with...

we didn't but the kids thought it would be a great idea 

When I was gathering the materials for our spiders

i said "lets make big giant spiders on these paper plates."

notice the giant spider on the paper plate!

smart girl!!

although we learned a lesson 

a spider has 8 legs TOTAL

not 8 legs on each side!

and then she realized oh no one else is making an actual spider on their plate
so she painted the whole thing black!
silly girl!  I loved her big spider!!

now the lesson to be learned here friends is:

a tuffet is a wooden stool

beans make kids happy

teach children to clean

spiders have 8 legs
frighten means to be scared
(these are things i learned and kids learned!)