Bunny Garland

Eva decided we needed a garland for on our fireplace and only bunnies would do!  I love the peeps garland that Dana at Made created last year and used her template for the bunny shape.  I traced the bunny onto pink, yellow and purple card stock and I thought it would be cute for Eva to use a cotton ball to paint a tail on each one but she has plans of her own.  She decide the bunnies needed to be completely covered in white paint and that only a paint brush would do the job.  This was her craft so I let her call the shots!

When they had all been covered in paint (notice how her method changed from painting individual bunnies to just covering the paper with paint!) we added some glitter and when everything was dry, I cut them out.  Eva then decided on the pattern (yellow, purple, pink) and laid them out on the floor.  I taped them to some ribbon and hung them up.  Now we have a festive Easter decoration that Eva can truly call her own!

Shape Fire Engine

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.

Back-to-School Patterns and Collage

I found a pack of 24 school related cut outs in the dollar spot at Target (do they sponsor blogs?  Not many of my posts don't mention the dollar spot!).  There were 6 different cut outs and they were perfect for making patterns.

Eva is really catching on to the whole pattern thing and even made her own pattern today.  She surprised me because she laid out all four of one cut out (the hands) and then went back and put a pencil between each.  It's so amazing to see how her little mind works!

When we were done making patterns, Eva wanted to glue the cut outs so we made a collage (with Hoppy's help).

Another fun decoration to celebrate going back to school!

Kids...In...Space...

We are off to outer space this week to explore the sun, moon, stars and planets.  We may even have an alien encounter!

Crafts
Heavenly Mobile- we'll use glue and lots of glitter to make a sparkly mobile

Starry Night Drawing- wet chalk on dry, dark paper will help us create a night time sky scene

Toilet Paper Tube Rocket- get ready to blast-off with our very own rocket ship

Alien Antennae- this fun headband will transform us into creatures from another planet

Activities
Planet Sort- we will arrange the planets in size order from biggest to smallest

Star Patterns- using the felt board and our felt stars, we will create various patterns and try to figure out what come next

Night Sky- Eva will get to hone her fine motor skills decorating the exploration station with tiny star stickers to create her own constellations

Heavenly Body Toss- using a tissue paper sun, moon and earth, we'll try to toss them into a galaxy (aka laundry basket)

Books