4th Of July Activities

 

Here are the Fourth of July activities we’ve been up to:

Connor made a flag.

The kids tweezered puffs into a star ice cube tray. (Brianna loved this)

Brianna sorted red, white and blue foam stickers.

Using those same stickers, along with some ribbon and star sequins, they made red, white and blue collages.

I watered down paint and we spooned it onto black paper and the kids blew onto the paint with a straw to make fireworks.

You can go here to see my post on our Fourth of July playdoh!

We also enjoyed reading these books:

(By Alyssa Satin Capucilli)

(Words and music by Irving Berlin. Illustrations by Lynn Munsinger)

I will be linking up at:

A Mommy’s Adventures (stART)

1+1+1=1 (Tot School)

Homeschool Creations (Preschool Corner)

Brianna’s Tot School: Bubbles!

Brianna is 27 months old

We worked on a bubbles/water theme this week and had so much fun!!

We did lots of fun activities outside!

I filled a bucket with soapy water and a sponge and washcloth and Brianna and her brother washed their little tikes car.

We then took the bucket, along with some paintbrushes and ‘painted’ the driveway with water.

I let her pour the bucket of water onto the driveway and she proceeded to jump in it.

After the driveway fun i squirted some dish soap into their kiddie pools and filled with water. The result? Bubble filled pools an lots of fun!

We did a bubble blowing activity outside too. We taped paper to the fence, put some food coloring into our bubbles and blew them onto paper where they popped.

Go here to see 2 bubble crafts she made:

I put out some items, including a damp washcloth, for to bathe her baby doll. She loved this!

She attempted to fold washcloths. She was so cute with this, even though it wasn’t the easiest thing for her. She still enjoyed it.

Non Bubble related:

She played with the birdseed sensory bin,

colored a heart red,

and made a handprint sun.

She painted with Crayola Beginners paints on fun paint papers.

Lately she has been really into peeling the paper off of crayons. She concentrates so hard!

Using this coloring page, she colored and glued sand onto it to make a sand picture.

She helped me pull weeds. (or should i say vines)

and found Curious Georges matching shadows. (from our Friends magazine)

Using the idea i saw here, the kids played in a cornstarch and water mixture. However i added too much water. So we will try this again sometime. The kids still loved playing in it though!

She enjoyed some of our instruments:

And made an ice cream cone.

That was our past couple of weeks! Go here for more Tot School posts. And check back later this week for a post of all the Fourth of July activities we’ve been up to.

*I am using the Joyful Learning Curriculum.

stART~ Bubbles!

We read two cute books about bubbles this week, both of which were perfect for Brianna’s age:

Bubbles, Bubbles by Kathi Appelt

and Scrubba-Dub by Nancy Van Laan

And Brianna made a couple of little bubble crafts too. She made bubble prints by pressing a piece of paper over bubble wrap she had painted on:

and she made glitter bubbles. She put some circle label stickers onto a piece of paper,

i helped her add drops of glue and then she sprinkled on some glitter.

We shook off the excess glitter and let it dry!

We are having alot of fun with our bubble theme, so come back later to see some more fun ideas!