"C" Week

Before we went to Georgia, we had "C" week. That was fun. We started with "Crazy Carrot Man!" That was yummy. I had a really hard time not doing "cupcake" or "cake" -- which would have been fun too, but since we were already "bakers" for "b", and I was pretty sure were were going to do "doughnuts" for "D", I figured maybe I'd play "good mom" and throw in a healthy snack or two.

I'm always so amazed at how much mileage you can get out of an egg carton. We used a shorter version of this to make an "ant" for "a" -- use a longer one and you get, "caterpillar" for "c"! Works for me! It's even better if you have a cardboard one and you paint it green, but hey, a pink caterpillar has character, right? Oooh, "c" for "character!"

The flat part of the egg carton, I've found, works great as a palette, by the way! I put some paint in there, took a little dollar store racecar, and we painted car race tracks on paper, which actually looked pretty cool! I would say stay away from the good cars you have and use the cheapo kind.

But I suppose if you don't, you could always do "Carwash" for "c"!

Then we made a cactus -- we painted a sweet potato (you can use any potato, I only had a sweet potato in the house) and then stuck some green toothpicks into it. This was a little scary and thorny to have lying around the house afterward so it went to the "big desert in the sky" aka the trashcan after we had fun taking pictures of it.

I love making these cute little coloring books. I think I like them more than he does, actually. He hasn't been in a coloring mood much. Oh well.


That's "C" week!

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Credits:

Thanks to: Mosi Esme', DLTK's Printable Crafts, Everything PreSchool

"C" Week

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"B" Week

We had a lot of fun doing "B" week in the O Household. Mainly because there is baking involved. We couldn't help ourselves, really. I mean, "B" for Baking. You know. As in baking brownies. That's a double-b. Who could resist that.





And then of course, there were the "bubble" treats, which are really marshmallow rice krispies but he calls marshmallows "bubbles" so they're "bubble treats" here. And then afterward, cutting them out with "B" shaped cookie cutters. However, when deciding between brownies and bubble treats, brownies win every time. Good thing "B" week was the week before Hot for the Holidays. Or there would be trouble. Not for him. For me.


And you can't do B week without "bubbles" and "baseball", a "B" combo platter.
Then we did some painting "bugs". One of those is a bumblebee believe it or not. The yellow one.

We made a "beaded bracelet".
And a foam "basketball" with "balls", "B"'s "bugs", "butterflies"...

B week really could have gone on forever, I had so many B words and ideas. So that was B week! Onto C week now!

"B" Week

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The Letter "A"

Since Poops was teensy tinesy we have had letters around. The foam letters you stick on the bathtub, the floor mat puzzley thingies with the letters in them, cookie cutter letters... we play with them like they're Weeble Wobbles or Power Rangers, whatever. I would hold them up and tell him what they were not expecting him to remember but hoping he would. And for the longest time he wouldn't. But one day he did. He started to tell me what they were and I was amazed. You think nothing's getting in but really it is.

So I've been following the lead of Mozi Esme' who does letter crafts every week with her little girl. (She's so inspiring!) I am doing them too now, one or two projects a day. The goal for me is to teach him what the letters "say"now that he knows their names already. This week we did "A".
For "Art". A little tempura paint and a canvas and voila! You have art.

"A" grilled cheese sandwiches made from letter cookie cutters I bought (and love) from Williams Sonoma long long ago.
An "A" coloring book I made from printouts from a couple pre-school web sites. I'd love to have a library of all his letter coloring books when we get to "Z".
An anchor we cut out and a construction paper chain. This actually was a double-duty craft. The anchor was for the letter A. But the little linkies had a purpose. Each link represented a day that daddy was away on a trip. Each morning we would ceremoniously take a link off (he did this quite vigorously and grandly too! Boy did he miss his daddy!) and on the very last day we took off the last one which meant daddy was coming home. He was so. happy.
Ants out of egg cartons, wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners and little puffy balls (which became kitty playthings and now the little puffballs are scattered about). And we sang the, "The ants go marching one by one hurrah! hurrah!" song. And ate these:
"Ants on an apple boat" is what we called them. Peanut butter on thinly sliced apples with raisins (ants) on top. Pretty yummy snack actually!

We also painted a little wooden airplane. Which also helped with the daddy-being-gone thing because daddy had to ride the "air-pane" to "Jer-nee" (Germany).

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The things I didn't think up on my own I got from (and thank you!!!): Mozi Esme, Everything Preschool, DLTK's Educational Activities for Kids, and First-SchoolPreschool Activities and Crafts.

The Letter "A"

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