Category: crafts

Creating Crabs

leslie June 13, 2017 0 Comments
This post is brought to you by the letter C.  :) We are on Alphabet Island having adventures studying island life including crabs!Mother Goose Time came up with this little crab craft for Crab Day, and it doubles as a musical shaker!  I love it when crafts have a dual purpose.Mother Goose Time sent us a little cardboard container with a lid, a strip of eye stickers, red glitter...

Science Discovery: Rainy Day Slime

leslie May 30, 2017 0 Comments
Each month I check out a huge batch of books from our local library that goes along with our Mother Goose Time monthly theme... this month happened to be BUGS.Rainy Day Slug was one of the books I found this month that has been constantly read!  The slug explores the inside of a home leaving a nice slimy white trail behind him that Sweet Pea traces with her fingers.  When I...

Crazy Caterpillar Crafts

leslie May 26, 2017 2 Comments
If you have been following our adventures for a little while, you know that I have really struggled with being able to fit all the daily discovery bags in each month.  I wrote about that here. The last several months we have picked and chose bags from our Mother Goose Time box that interested Sweet Pea.  I really loved how easily this month could be adjusted and how 2 bags could...

Birdwatching

leslie April 26, 2017 0 Comments
This Bird and Egg Unit is my favorite so far this year yall.If you've been keeping up with us, you will know that I blogged about how Sweet Pea and I built a Bird Sanctuary the other day outside our dining room window so we could become birdwatchers.  We continued our transformation by reading the book The Birdwatchers, making binoculars from paper cups (provided by Mother Goose Time),...

Building a Bird Sanctuary

leslie April 25, 2017 0 Comments
I've been so inspired this past month by our Birds and Eggs unit by Mother Goose Time.We built our own nest that my girl loves, which you can read about here.  In fact, she convinced Daddy to sit in it with her and read together yesterday.  Wish I had grabbed a picture. Yesterday, I taught the 2-4 year old crafts at our local co-op and I had the kids make birdfeeders from toilet...

Shaving Cream Paper Eggs

leslie April 14, 2017 0 Comments
Easter is around the corner, and you know what that means...EGG DECORATING.This month our Birds and Eggs unit came with a "Who's in the Nest?" attendance tracker. Since it is just me and Sweet Pea, I decided to modify the nest to become a "How many are in the Nest? daily game for Sweet Pea. First we had some Egg decorating to do.The supplies you need are:-shaving cream-food coloring or...

Tot School: S is for Snake

leslie March 28, 2017 0 Comments
 Hey friends!  Had a GOD sighting last week.  Let me tell you about it.  So every Wednesday we go to our local library for Preschool Story-time.  It just so happened that we were studying and reading books on snakes which was the same thing I had planned for us to study that afternoon with our Mother Goose Time!  I adjusted the order of our days using the Planning...

Creating Alligator Skin

leslie March 24, 2017 0 Comments
We are still hanging out at the pond and having so much fun.  I am definitely behind in my blogging, but I have been having so much fun with my girl.  Today during our Mother Goose Time (MGT), I gave her a choice between studying fish, ducks, or alligators.  She chose the ALLIGATOR and today Sweet Pea created a picture of ALLIGATOR SKIN!I can not recommend Mother Goose Time highly...

Creating Cattails

leslie March 16, 2017 0 Comments
We've had so much fun learning all about the Pond in our newest unit study!Unfortunately Sweet Pea had the flu, so we haven't had many outdoor adventures to the local pond; however she did make her own picture of cattails at a pond the other day and had fun even with the flu.Mother Goose Time supplied us with sticks, green paper, and the blue sheet along with the inspiration photo of cattails....

Tot School: Valentine’s Day

leslie February 20, 2017 0 Comments
Valentine's Day is such a fun day to celebrate with kids!My husband and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day at all, which is fine by me;however, I do want Sweet Pea to know what the day is about and why.I still want to make it special for her, but I didn't want to spend money. My desire was to spend some really good quality time talking and making things special for our Love day.Mother Goose Time...