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Monday, 20 October 2008
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Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch (Biscuit)
By Alyssa Satin Capucilli
see relatedPumpkin Mosaics
Ava and I made these pumpkins last week.
Supplies: scissors, orange paper, markers, green paper, glue, paper plate
1. Give your child orange paper to cut up into smaller pieces. This is a great project to work on scissors skills because the paper doesn't have to be cut a certain way. If your child isn't ready for scissors they could just rip the paper into smaller pieces.
2. Glue the pieces on a paper plate.
3. Cover the paper plate as much as possible.
4. Give your child a black marker to draw a face.
5. Cut out and glue a green stem to complete your pumpkin.
Here are ours. Ava didn't want a green stem on hers.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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Currently Reading
Halloween Bugs: A Trick or Treat Pop Up Book (Bugs in a Box Books)
see relatedHere are some easy, yet fun spider art projects
1. Paper plate spider
*Paint a paper plate (brown, black, or purple work well)
*While it is drying, have your child cut out 8 strips of black paper. (you can
draw lines on the paper with chalk or a white crayon to give them
guidelines)
*Fold the black strips in an accordion style and glue to the back of the plate.
*Glue on googly eyes. (You could also draw them on.)
*We used pom pom balls for the mouth. You could also use a pipe cleaner, yarn,
or draw one on.
2. Sparkling Spider Web
*Allow your child to squeeze glue all over a sheet of black paper.
*Give your child silver glitter to sprinkle over the paper.
*Shake off the excess and you'll have a beautiful spider web.
*I found a clipart spider online, but you can also use spider stickers.
(Helpful glitter hint: Put the paper your child is sprinkling glitter on inside a
cardboard box [like the bottom of clothing boxes] or a raised side cookie
tray. It really helps keep the mess down.)
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
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Currently Reading
Five Little Pumpkins (Harper Growing Tree)
By Public Domain
see relatedMultisensory Learning
Here is a fun multi-sensory activity for teaching how to write letters, numbers, or words. It can also be used to review spelling words. As a speech/language therapist when I worked with younger children, I would do this activity to review words with the students' target sounds.
1. Choose a substance: sand, glitter, flour, rice, clay, Play-Doh, shaving cream, or pudding.
2. Place the substance in a tray, on a cookie sheet (with raised sides), or directly on a table. (The bathtub works great for the shaving cream!)
3. Allow your child to practice writing letters, numbers, words, or their spelling words. You could also practice writing their names or shapes.
4. It is just a fun, simple way to learn and provides some variety to boring the paper and pencil!
Monday, 06 October 2008
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Currently Reading
It's Pumpkin Time!
By Zoe Hall
see relatedMore Letter Sound Fun
More phonological awareness fun...simple and easy.
1. Choose a letter.
2. Either cut out a pattern of an object that starts with that sound (ex. pumpkin) or just use a regular sheet of paper.
3. Look through old magazines,catalogs, and ads to find objects that start with the letter sound.
4. If your child isn't ready to find the pictures themselves you can ask them as you go through the magazine, "Does bat start with the "p" sound? Does toothbrush start with the "p" sound?" You can also give them the choice of two pictures. "Do you think shirt or pants start with the "p" sound?"
Here are some ideas for simple patterns you can cut out for different sounds or letters.
*Apple for "A"
*Ball for "B"
*Fish for "F"
*Balloon for "B"
*Jelly bean for "J"
*Kite for "K"
*Leaf for "L"
*Moon for "M"
*Ghost for "G"
*Nose for "N"
*Snake for "S"
Sunday, 05 October 2008
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Pinkalicious Cupcakes
This week my mom did a fun project with Ava while I was working. My mom bought Ava the Pinkalicious book. They also made pink cupcakes to go with the story (strawberry flavored cake mix and icing). The story is super cute! It is about a little girl who makes pink cupcakes with her mom and she eats so many she turns pink! I highly recommend this book and the cupcake activity. Ava LOVED it!!!! What a great activity to spend time together!! There are also some fun ideas on line to go with the story.
http://www.cupcakesforall.com/funstuff.htm
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I am a Christian mom of two little girls. I work two days a week as a speech/language therapist and the rest of the time I spend with my two precious little girls (3 years and 8 months). I love to do projects with them and invent new games. I have gotten a lot of comments on my personal blog on the projects I have done with my older daughter so I thought I would share some of our projects and activities on this blog. I love my kids and love spending time with them. I rejoice and thank God for the messy little handprints that are all over our house! I am very blessed!
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