The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I'm a huge Eric Carle fan. I absolutely adore his books. We own many of them and I read them to the girls frequently, so there's no surprise that many of his books have become their favorites too! At the moment, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is Izzie's favorite bedtime story. During the day, I've caught her playing caterpillar. She'll wiggle around on her belly (she's a caterpillar, of course!) and munch everything in site. Then, she'll crawl under our big fuzzy brown blanket (her cocoon) and wait, wait, wait...then, she'll burst out of her cocoon and spread her arms (wings) and fly around the house, chanting, "I'm a beautiful butterfly!" Repeat. And, repeat. And, repeat.

So, to jazz up the day and to let her rest her wings, we decided to create butterflies!

Decorating a coffee filter with Dot Markers.

Place a pipe cleaner in the center to complete the beautiful butterfly!

stART: Duckie's Rainbow

Izzie read Duckie's Rainbow for her stART project this week.

Then, she made a rainbow using tissue paper!

Rainbow template (I color coded it for Izzie).

The completed rainbow with clouds!

Afterward, she decided that we needed to make another craft, so we made a rainbow letter R.

Izzie singing her rainbow song and reciting the colors of the rainbow on her letter R.

To see more stART projects, be sure to follow the rainbow over to A Mommy's Adventures!

Letter U Activities

Izzie completed the Magnet Page with her Dot Markers. I've been wanting to make these Magnetic Pom Poms for Izzie to use on the Magnet Pages too. She may get them in her Easter basket this year!

For letter recognition (capital and lowercase letter U), she completed this activity that I turned into a file folder game. For me, it's easier to store and locate being in a file folder. I attached a small snack Ziploc bag to the inside of the file folder to hold the smaller pieces.

U is for umbrella. Inspiration from No Time For Flashcards.

I'm starting a letter template binder for Izzie. I printed the letter U template and simply slid it into a clear page protector. This time, she used Play-doh to construct the letters, but the options are endless to use with the templates.

She practiced writing the letter U. These are the reusable uppercase flashcards from Kumon. I bought these at a used resource sale and they are wonderful. I'm really wanting to purchase the lowercase letters too!

More writing practice. I recently found an amazing site, Preschool Palace, with a ton of preschool activities. It's worth the time to check out!

Matching capital letters and lowercase letters. Again, I made this activity into a file folder game. She used her lowercase letter tiles.

She really enjoyed matching the number umbrellas to the correct amount of raindrops with
the number flip book.

I found this counting activity and thought I would introduce Izzie to the concept of counting by ten. She was able to recognize numbers 10, 20 and 30, but wasn't interested in learning the other numbers. I went over it with her a few times then left her alone to "practice". I was quite surprised when I came back and she had the grid completed in the correct number sequence! However, it was a little deceiving...I asked her to count the numbers for me. Well, she started counting 10, 20, 30, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 100! She recognized that she could put them in correct number sequence by just looking at the first number...it's a start!