its raining...

i know you were all thinking men

common this is a daycare blog :)

But we did a little project on rain and water!

First we talked about clouds

if we could touch a could what would it feel like:

pillows, soft, fluffy, cotton candy

if we could taste it, what would it taste like:

gross, feathers, cotton candy, sticky

We then made a cloud with cotton balls

glue + cotton = fun!

hmmm where should this piece go...

look at that face of pure concentration!

even "babies" can join the fun!

We then made rain drops!

i took a couple toilet paper tubes and folded one side to make it look like a raindrop

busy busy boys!

Here are some of our finished products!

and then we did some water play!  

we talked about how after a rain storm we can always find lots of frogs and snakes and other pond animals.  and so we had a few "ponds" and animals inside!

there may have been some alligators and sharks that made their way to our pond as well!

oh I also had to put a stop to water play to lay down some towels (should have done that first!)

they were getting a little crazy and the water on the floors was making me a little crazy!

poured some water in the babies trays and WOW! 

that was a HUGE FUN MESS!!!

look at that face of pure happiness!!!  

These crazy boys played in their water tray with spoons and medicine cups 

for over 30mins!  

They then screamed at me as i took their trays away!

but don't worry the screaming stopped once they got outside...

only to begin again when they had to come back inside!

CRAZY BOYS!!!

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what are you doing on this wonderful Tuesday day??

the big bad wolf...

which was kinda a total fail

but the kiddos still had fun

making thier big bad wolf.

I just cut out a bunch of triangles

of all different sizes

and came up with our big bad wolf

they turned out fun, goofy, and each one is sooo different!

they don't look much like a big bad wolf but we know what they are

and thats all that matters!

We also got to go back down to the basement!

YAY!!

The kids were tad overly excited...

but hopefully after a couple days the excitment settles down!



Heart Stamps

Nothing exciting over here today

Just that I am excited thats a Friday so that I can get some rest in from a crazy week!!

Today we did heart stamps with toilet paper tubes!

I saw this idea on pinterest.

super easy,

super cheap

and of course all things paint are fun!!

What you need:

-toilet paper tube, bent into heart shape

paper

paint

girls hard at work doing their heart stamps!

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 And then I leave you with this photo!

all the kiddos laying on their tummies relaxing, while watching a little movie before nap!

I was cleaning up lunch and walked in on it so I had to run and grab my camera!

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!!

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The stick just wasn't so sticky!

One of my new year resolutions was to plan my daycare projects in advance!

I have not missed a single day!

Everything has been ready and prepped for when the time came!

well last night I look at my calendar

and do a check in my head to make sure I have all the materials

well nope I do not because of the the flood!

I don't have all my yarn, not much tissue paper, no felt

BUT contact paper YES! 

It was on a top shelf!

So I gather all the supplies that made it and have them ready for today!

a BIG piece of contact paper pom poms, a small amount of tissue paper, buttons, sequence, a few pieces of yarn and string and some other small light weight odds and ends!

the kids go to work!!

hang the contact paper on the wall!

set out supplies and let the kids start the decorating process

hmmm where should I put this?

The finished product!

Also not sure if it was because the contact paper has been sitting in a super moist basement or if it was bad contact paper but the items had a hard time staying stuck!!  I am assuming it was because it sat in the basement but who knows! so all day I have been picking up the pieces that are slowing falling off to the ground!!

here one of the kiddos made a face

you can see the eyes, the button ears, the sequence mouth and the yarn for hair!

Too cute!!!

This was a HUGE hit and the kids were busy with this activity for over 30 minutes!  I love when we can get up and moving with our project time!!

I highly recommend this activity with energetic kids! Because there was lots of walking to be done if you stick the supplies on one side of the room and the contact paper on the other! 

I leave you with this picture

I was finsihing lunch clean up and walked into our "new" daycare space and found this little dude sitting at the table reading a book (upside down) just smiling away like he was the biggest kid at daycare today!  It just struck me as super funny and I had to get a picture of it! 

Happy Monday!!

Here are a few more pics of my daycare space as of today

this is a pic of the back bedroom

and this is a pic of the main daycare area that I use!

The carpet is offically dry and waiting a little longer on the wood!

so we are almost ready to start repairing everything!

Snow Much Fun!

Today was a quiet day since we have a few kids out with strep!

SAD!!

These nasty cold/flu bugs are getting around A LOT!!!

NO FUN!!

(but I must say we have been fairly healthy and not to many kids have missed daycare so far this winter)

Now onto things like snow!

We hadn't painted with cookie cutters in awhile so I got the snowflake and snowman cookie cutters out and some paint and let the kids get busy!!

After we got done painting with snowman and snowflake cookie cutters I had a surprise waiting upstairs for the kids!

BUCKETS FULL OF SNOW!!!

The kiddos had the choice of wearing gloves or bare hands! They all went back and forth!

I had bought some spray bottles at the dollar store so the kids could spray the snow, BUT they didn't work!  DISAPPOINTMENT!  so i pulled out a bunch of syringes and we used those instead!!

they discovered quickly that the snow would melt when it got squirted with water!  AMAZING!!!

AAAHHHHHH he was NOT a fan!!!!!

and this young man was OBSESSED with making yellow snow! :)

which reminded everyone through giggles why we don't eat the yellow snow!

Happy Monday!!!

I went to an amazing training this weekend which a majority of it was about movement and music so I hoping (if brave enough) to share a video clip or 2 of some new games/songs I learned!!

on this blog I mainly only share the "projects/crafts" so hopefully I can start sharing a little more!!

LOVE-flakes

We got the real deal last night and this morning!  

Snowflakes!

I already had on my schedule

that we would water color snowflakes.

It worked out perfect because the kids were ALL about the snow!!

But then one of my favorite blogs Teach Preschool

lets everyone share on her facebook page their blog and she picks a topic

which was Valentines day...honestly valentines day hasn't even crossed my mind yet!

but then I decided to make the snowflakes by cutting hearts into them!

Which we then called LOVE-flakes!

All you need is circle paper 

a scissors

water color

paintbrush

I have no idea how to tell you how to cut a snowflake! 

I just do it :)

So here are a few that I cut!

Then let the kids paint away!!!

Here are some finished snowflakes

We then tied string around my light fixture, taped them to the string, and

Ta-da!

There are a lot more hanging now! 

It looks so "pretty" according to the kids!!

I am waiting for the child that comes along and takes a swing at it! :)

Happy Friday!!!

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