love is in the air!

I don't know about anyone else

but over here we got

boogers, coughs, boogers,

oh and did I mention the

BOOGERS!!!

for real!  Ugh I am all nose wipped out!!

Anyways!

Love is in the air over here!

I was busy using my cricut to cut a punch of hearts for the kids to just glue to a piece of paper.

When another daycare friend says

"make a love tree!"

So we did!

What you need is:

a bunch of hearts

(i used 5 different colors and a bunch of different sizes)

their hand/arm cut out of brown paper

a piece of paper to glue everything to and glue

The kiddos got busy right away decorating their "love tree"

of course there were all sorts of giggles when I would say "love"!

AND then the laughter wouldnt stop when I sang about LOVE!

These kids crack me up!!

I leave you with this little man who is GUILTY with playing in my tubberware cupboard!

I will be VERY happy when we are back down to my daycare space!!

but until then I will tryto enjoy these little moments!!

Happy Wednesday!!

Linking up with Show and Tell #86

Christmas Party

CHRISTMAS PARTY!

 

Here is a quick recap of what we did on our last daycare day before Christmas...

 

Pin the nose on rudolph!

 

notice where child is and where rudolph is...

 

Foot/handprint rudolph

 

 

 

Handprint Christmas Trees

 

 

Gingerbread Man Bingo

 

 

Popsicle Star decoration

 

 

 

THE DAY FLEW BY!!

but fun was had by everyone!!

 

Christmas Crafts are over!  Didnt get everything done that I wanted :(

there is always next year!

 

Halloween Crafts

First off I have to say that I honestly don't care that much for Halloween, but I do try to do a few crafts with the kiddos that are Halloweenish...  I always try to keep things simple but yet fun for the kiddos!  Hope you enjoy and are able to take a few of the ideas and use them with your children!

This first one isn't really "Halloween" but the kids thought it was because of the colors we used.

Pretty easy to do...black paper, white and orange paint and a couple balls and let the kids have fun!  I usually use an old pizza box but didn't have any so I did have to supervise a little more because I didn't want flying balls!

The next one is simple and the kids loved it because they are hanging from ribbions dangling above our heads..ewwwwwww!! :)

Trace the kids hands and cut it out including the thumb.  Glue one hand over the other and add some eyes!  The kids loved picking our their own eyes!  We have a whole house full of different colored eyes!

Our spiders hanging from their webs!  The babies love these!  espeically when they move (aka when I blow on them)

Finally we did this little number today! It was a favorite of the kids and they did turn out pretty cute!

I wish I had someone here to take photos of the babies when i did this because it was priceless!  oh well someday I will be able to hire a photographer to follow the daycare kids around and take pics :)

What are some things you do during this time of the year??

Handprint pumpkins

A friend of mine that also does daycare does a handprint or footprint once a month!  I don't think she has missed a single month and I always thought how awesome that those parents will see their babies hands and grow because of what my friend does.  I on the other hand have been doing daycare for a little over 3 years and always had good intentions of doing this but failed over and over!  So I finally decided I need to be better about this and have stuck to it for the last 3 months and sometimes we do more than one handprint!  Thanks to my dear friend for the motivation! - I hope she knows who she is!

So this month we did pumpkin handprints to go with the season! 

Here are the children hard at work...

 showing me their orange hands!  The kids love painting with anything and everything but actually getting to paint with their hands is a real treat!

 he dove in with 2 hands!

 even the babies got a turn!

-they aren't babies anymore but pretty sure I will call them my babies until the next "round" of babies come!  They grow up way to fast!

 he pretty much did everything BUT paint the paper plate!

 this little dude kept his hand in the same spot and stared at me!  His big brother came over and helped him move his hand side to side but he didn't change expression and once his brother stopped he left his hand in that same spot :)

the final product! 

do you make your child's handprint often as a memory? 

Ribbit, ribbit!

PAINT!

i say this word and I have 8 children at my feet yelling and screaming with delight!

Painting makes me a little anxious but I still do it 3-5 times a week. 

Why do I put myself through this...

because of happy little faces!!

 On Monday (and part of Tuesday) we made these...

cute!! 

See ya soon, Racoon!