Letter Dd: Dogs

Dd is for DOGS...one of Marin's favorite animals!
She loves dogs. She will shout "ruff ruff" whenever she sees one. So we....

We read Dog's Colorful Day (cute story) and painted dots on our dog. 

She, of course, loved the painting. 

Just because she's cute. :o) 

I tried another go at "tactile cards". She liked this one a lot better and traced the letters and felt them
without having a fit to pull them off. (It's felt, foam, a sticker, and a wooden letter.)

Then we read Bark, George. Another cute story about a dog that  made other animal sounds instead of barking. The vet reached way in and pulled out all the other animals so that George could bark again. So....

Marin played doctor (which happens to start with Dd as well :o) and reached into George's "belly" and...

pulled out all the other animals so that he could bark.
We used the cards first but then put chunky puzzle pieces in and "practiced" saying their names and animal sounds. 

Last but not least, we read one more dog story....Go Dogs Go! Then made a dog paper stained glass craft. I found it at Dollar Tree and wasn't sure if Marin would get it. But she LOVED it. She loved glueing tissue paper!

And Dd stands for  Daddy Daughter dancing! They had a donut date as well. :o)

Letter Dd: Dinosaurs!

So Day 1 of Dd week started with some Dinosaur play! 

We counted dinosaurs on our number mat. 

We stamped Dd with our letter magnets on the Magna Doodle. 

We read That's Not My Dinosaur for the billionth time in our life.
This is a favorite book at our house. 

We sang a dinosaur color song like Brown Bear Brown Bear.
"Blue Dinosaur Blue Dinosaur what do you see?
I see a Yellow Dinosaur sitting by the tree."
And so on....

Hollis LOVED it. :o) Especially because the color dinosaurs were laminated and she could chew on them. 

Then we made a little dinosaur sensory box with rocks, shells, dinosaurs, and some water.
We will add some sticks and leaves later. 

I had this all set up on her table for when she woke up from nap.
The squeal of excitement when she saw it was worth a million dollars.
A good Dollar Tree find. 

She was so happy to paint.
Right now, I am pretty sure black is her favorite color!?!?

Beautiful Dinosaurs! 

 We've got more Dd fun planned for the week with DOGS! 

Children's Book Club

COLOR ZOO

by Lois Ehlert

I decided to participate in the Virtual Book Club for Kids over at Mommy and Me Book Club. I love her blog and all the activities she does with books. So I decided to join and participate in the monthly book club. 

This month was Lois Ehlert, so we read Color Zoo. Marin was more interested in the shapes than the animals the shapes made. So we really did more shape activities. 

I found these tangram pieces and puzzle cards at the Dollar Tree and
thought they'd be perfect to go along with this book. 

I laminated the cards and put magnets on the back of the tangram pieces to help
her keep them in place.
This was still a little hard for her but she still enjoyed playing with them.

Then a Shape Texture Memory Game....

Using felt, pasta, paper clips, and pipe cleaner, I made shapes on cardboard for a memory game.
Marin (20 mths) loves touch and feel books so I thought she would like this game, but....

All she wanted to do was rip the shapes off the cardboard.
She was very frustrated that she could not get them off. :o) 

Letter of the Week: Cc

Our Letter Cc activities were a little short and quick because we went on vacation. 

But here they are...cupcakes, colors, cars, caterpillar critters,  and creation!

We made cupcakes! Then put food coloring in the batter and swirled with
a toothpick to make Color Swirl Cupcakes. She LOVED using the blender.
But cracking the eggs were her favorite.
She just used her toothpick as a spoon. 

Creation Collage!
The caption is a little small but we read the Bible story of God creating the world.
Then she used paint, stickers, foam, magazine pictures, and stamps to show everything God created.
She sat and did this for a long, long time. Loved it! 

Color Rice (or Rainbow Rice)
Very MESSY but easy to make and she loves it.
I'm going to have to get a cheap shower curtain or something for her to play on because the rice gets
EVERYWHERE.
But worth it. 

We did the stickers and pom pom magnets from the Letter of the Week Curriculum  at Confessions  of a Homeschooler. 

I made this Color Clip game for the airplane ride for our vacation.
She didn't care about them at all then.
But she dragged them out the other night and we clipped the colored pom pom clips on the correct
color circle.