Friday, February 10, 2012

Blogging Break Catch up!

I took a break from blogging the last couple days
because
1. I wasn't in the mood
2. We didn't do anything to exciting!
and then I decided it doens't need to be exciting to blog about
I am blogging to share!

So Wednesday we did 2 different stations
(these kids are obsessed with doing stations right now so I am rolling with it!)

At station one they painted with Yarn


At station two they painted with popsicle sticks

It was weird because the group that did the yarn station first didn't really enjoy it but LOVED the popsicle station, and the kids that did the popsicle station first seemed bored but painted FOREVER with the yarn!  Kids are so crazy sometimes!

On Thursday we did this
But its all I can share with you for now! 
You will learn more next week!
I know the anticpation is killing you right...or not :)

Last night the hubby ordered pizza
(i had left the house in a hurry and didn't prepare any meals or leftovers so that means order pizza)
anyways I LOVE to marlbe paint when I have pizza boxes!
And what kid doesn't love to shake a box with marbles inside as crazy as they want!!
dumping the painted marbles in the box

giving the box a good shake!
finsihed product!
one more shake for good measure!  :)

And Finally I leave you with my little computer nerd!
(and yes he is playing with a barbie computer, but thats what you get when your older sister is a girl!)

Linking up with Two Sasters TGIF #6

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Musical Painting

First I have to say:
What you are about to read is a MUST!!!

If you have never tried this or done it
PLEASE PLEASE DO!!
What you need:
A vareity of painting/writing stations
Music (we used "chillout music")
Set up your stations

I had 4 stations
-easel
-dot paint
-writing activity UNER the table
(taped paper to the underneath of the table)
-finger painting

Play some music, when the music stops the kids switch stations!
I tried to monitor to make sure they were done or very close to done before I stopped the music!

EASEL PAINTING

FINGER PAINTING

UNDER THE TABLE WRITING ACTIVITY
(A MUST DO!!!)

DOT ART

SERIOUSLY best activity EVER!!!
there was something so amazing during this project I can't even explain it very well!
Kids were painting by the way the music was playing!
I had beautiful pictures from calm queit music!
I had WILD pictures from a more African upbeat song
I had Messy pictures from music that was all over the place!
EVERY PICTURE WAS PERFECT!
IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!
I will be doing this more often and HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend doing (did i mention you NEED to do this) this with a large group, small group, or just play different types of music with your child at home when doing some painting or drawing!

Here are a few more photos from our fantastic project time!




Alrighty! 
Hope everyone had an AWESOME tuesday!
I know we did!!!

Linking this post up with Show and Tell #87
this is a GREAT blog!  Make sure to check it out!!!



Monday, February 6, 2012

GET BETTER SOON!!

One of our daycare friends is sick and in the hospital!
Its such a bummer!
They have been there for almost a week and not seeing a lot of progress on our friend!
So today we looked at pics of Coyer in the hospital!
We prayed for him
we talked about the things that make Coyer happy
-wearing a super hero cape, drumming, scooby doo, playing fighter, and the color pink (i think every boy favorite color is pink at one point in their life) 
and then we drew pictures for him!


Here are a couple of the pictures the kids drew!
I was VERY impressed with their creativness and drawings!




Tonight I plan on swinging by the hospital to drop off a
goodie basket and pictures from the daycare kiddos! 
They all wanted to go with, but I told them that we just have to many different germs
and can't share them with Coyer right now...they were bummed but understood!

Get better soon Buddy we miss you!!
Please pray for Coyer that he will get better and come back to daycare soon!
If you want to read his progress go The Fergen Family

P.S. Today is my birthday and I may or may not have had the kids sing happy birthday at least a dozen times...the benefits of working with kids!!!  :)