hunting, cutting, and painting

this week is kind of weird...

today i only had 2 kids till 10

and then by lunch I had 8 kids

i enjoy days like this

i can come up with an egg hunt alphabet game

without 100 distractions!

as you can see in the photo above i made an egg

cut the egg in half and put a lower case letter on top

and an upper case letter on bottom

i also do the laundry on these quiet weird days

some may not agree with me doing housework 

while I work,

but its one of the perks in my job!

after the eggs were made, laundry was folded

and the other 6 kids arrived

we hunted for the cracked alphabet eggs and put them together!

the kids did fantastic at this!

i am super impressed that the kids know most if not ALL the letters of the alphabet!

then we had some quiet time so i could prepare another activity!

i started cutting out eggs when i said

hey crazy daycare lady you do to much of the work and don't give

the kids enough opportunity to do some of the work for themselves.

i have control issues..

so i handed over the paper, and the scissors 

and let the kids do the work while i sat back and took pictures.

again these kids amaze me and how talented they are

i take all the credit...joking!

after we got done cutting our eggs out we took some plastic eggs

and painted circles with them onto our egg cutouts!

I got the idea to paint with the eggs from my 

AMAZING daycare friend sheena!

she is my sanity, because she understands the job

and she understands me!

painting with the eggs was a little tricky as they were quit slippery

when your hand was covered in paint.

how does a child get their hand covered in paint after 10 secs

of me placing the paint on the table!

kids are tricky!

these two act like brother and sister

but are GREAT friends!

"because mom you can be friends with boys that is ok, right?!?"

"yes dear you can be friends with boys...and thats it, JUST FRIENDS!"

 and finally the dirty boy painting...

im telling you today was a weird day, because the boy that usually 

eats, licks, smears, paint EVERYWHERE

wanted nothing to do with painting!