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!!!

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!!!  :)

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!

Linking up with Toys in the Dryer and Two Sasters

 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!