Today we made a fire engine out of shapes- two rectangles, a square and three circles. Eva constructed this on her own and I think it turned out great! It's amazing how independent she is getting.
To finish the engine, I cut out a ladder and Eva made a light bar with some gems. (I guess all the pattern work has been paying off- she made her own on the fire engine.)
As a final touch, Eva drew a fire fighter in the window and a road for the engine to drive along.
Then we read one of Eva's favorite books-
This is the Firefighter by Laura Godwin.
What a great project, I will have to do this with Emily, we talked about fire prevention this week after a trip to our Fire Department at the beginning of the week.
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I did a firefighter and activity too.
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ReplyDeleteIt's the perfect week for firetrucks! Love how hers turned out, especially the use of gems. My son made one earlier in the year and we used a brass brad to make the ladder swing up and down.
ReplyDeleteNice! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving these fire truck activities! We took a trip to our Museum of Transportation and my boys are just primed to do some books on transportation. This one will be great. She did wonderfully I can't believe she did it independently. She must have good stick-with-it-ness!
ReplyDeleteVery cute -- I love the ladder as a finishing touch! I haven't read that book. I bet my transportation-loving toddler would really like it.
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