Preschool Day - R & N

For the letters, R & N, we had so many ideas we had to limit ourselves! We did the letter formations first, with Handwriting Without Tears worksheets.

Then it was story time, we try to find books that go with the letters, or the words we are learning that day or crafts we are doing.

We learned about rainbows and the colors that make them.

Then they got to paint their own rainbows and of course the letter for their name.

We made "rainbow flyers" out of paper plates and tissue paper. Ours is STILL hanging up as decoration.

Then the kids got to help with some of their favorite activities....making the EDIBLE items. We made chocolate bird nests and they LOVED them. I just used the chocolate candy melts (Michaels sells them) and then we had leftover Easter egg candy (jelly beans would work for eggs too) and topped with marshmallow birds. YUMMY

To go with lunch, I had rainbow color fruit separated in bowls and had the kids put them on wooden skewers (again found at Michaels) in the order of the rainbow....they really enjoyed this a lot...although Emma had a hard time not eating all the strawberries!!

More Nativity Fun

I ordered this magnetic Nativity Set and reversible board and Angel is really enjoying it...helps make more real the story of the birth of Jesus. Think I might have to get the Easter ones too!

And THESE just arrived and I am eager to make our own gingerbread nativity.

Thanksgiving Crafts

We enjoyed some arts and crafts for Thanksgiving this year...continuing old traditions and starting new ones. My mom started this first one and Jason and I have done one every year since we got married...it is the We Are Thanksful Poster. You get some of your favorites pictures of the last year and put them on a poster. We do this Thanksgiving Day and it is lots of fun to look through all of them and put it together. Then we have it laminated to protect it. I have found a way for now (until there are too many) to hang them. I punch two holes at the top and connect with a metal ring and hang on a small dowel rod.....We love looking at all the pics hanging up throughout the year and amazing to look through the past ones as well!!

Ever since I got married I have enjoyed making place cards for each person at the dinner table. This year, Angel helped!! We used her little hand to paint turkeys and it was lots of fun....especially putting the googly eyes on them!

This year I made the girls some Indian feather hats....although had trouble keeping Angel's feathers straight and Emma just wanted to pull hers off!I also started a new tradition we hope to do every year. I printed out templates of leaves and we all enjoyed coloring our own sheet....ok we helped with Emma's. Then we all (again we helped Emma this year) thought of things we were thankful for and wrote one on each leaf. Then I put together our "Thankful Tree" on Thanksgiving and it has been our table centerpiece since....yes I know, now I need out the Advent decorations...I am just behind schedule!! Anyways....I hope to keep the leaves in an envelope labeled with the year and look back at them as time goes by!!
Any fun and neat crafts you do for the holiday??

Making our Thanksgiving Place Cards

For the past several years, I have always liked making personal place cards for our Thanksgiving table. This year, Angel helped and did a fabulous job making hand and finger turkeys...the perfect size hand for this project. She wasn't too sure about getting her hands dirty at first....my little clean queen!