Shamrock Prints

GREEN WEEK! Before I start what we did I wanted to say how much I LOVED the 59 emails about the Old MacDonald Set!  If you try anything or want me to do a specific theme, or need help let me know I would love to help in anyway possible!

Okay -

So hunt down some Toilet Paper Tubes...in our house we have a box of these just dying to be used.  You need to cut them in half so you have 2 tubes...then bend them in hald...invert the one side to make a heart.

Then get some cute kids to stamp different shades of green.

I would like to add that the cute girl to the right...the one I gave birth to - decided to potty train herself in 3 days!  She is 2.4 years old and fully - I mean fully - through the night trained as of today!  WAHOO!

Okay on to the project because no one likes a bragger.

Let it dry a tad and add some white  prints to it.  Add some background and a title and there it is...

It looks great on my art wall huh?

We talked about how cool shamrocks are and my husband showed the kids the 4 leaf clover he found on a camping trip he went on 1 week before meeting me.  He also likes to add that if he didn't find that clover he wouldn't have been "lucky" enough to get me.

I like to add that when he met me...I didn't like him...so the 4 leaf clover luck thing is crap.

He then finishes with...well he kept that 4 leaf clover and because his wish was to marry a beautiful girl...it worked.

I then roll my eyes a little and laugh, because the cheesefest needs to end somewhere.

Funny Farmers

Okay so I took 3 quick pictures...

Then I printed them out on fast print, cut the heads out and pre-glued them to the construction paper.

Then I pre-cut outfits and let them glue their own outfit to the farmer...including pitch fork and arms and hands and feet...

Here they are...

Then I ran all of the sheets through the laminator and here is the book...

All of these pages have touchy feeley things on them.  They turned out pretty cute. I hope you all liked Farm Theme, as much as we did!

Scratched Cows

We talked about our Farm Trip.

And what the farmer told us about what cows do for us.  We had a glass of milk and proceeded with our project! :)

I used this as our outline for the cow.  Cut it out.

Gave the kids forks so we could give the cows a scratched texture, because the farmer said that their skin was like feeling scratchy fabric. So paint it brown and then scratch it up with forks.

Here it is - I over edited it so you could see it.

We then added hay and a word strip so we wouldn't forget what the farmer told us about cows.

If you are guessing that we are making a book about the Farm...YOU ARE RIGHT!

6 Little Ducks

Six Little Ducks

Six little ducks that I once knew

Fat ones, skinny ones, fair ones, too

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Down to the river they would go

Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, to and fro

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Back from the river they would come

Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, ho, hum, hum

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack.

So another song, but fun to make!

Start by sponge painting yellow over the entire piece of construction paper.

K was a pro! :)

Let them dry and then cut a duck shape out. Glue it to some water, then let the kids add beaks and of course FEATHERS!

Cute!

Old MacDonald

So I found these in a book, and copied them and colored them.  I have written to the Author and Illustrator and they said I can't scan them in for you but if you email me I can send them to you that way.

I then covered them in packing tape and hot glued sticks to the back.

Then we sang the song.

It was fun.

Then they played themselves.

This is how I store them.

I bought these for 33 cents at Target on clearance and then put them in a notebook for the kids to flip through and decide what they want to play with.

If you want a copy email me at valeriewitte@yahoo.com I will send them right away.

Chickens and Chick-Hens

Sorry about the absence, my best friends father died and we have been hosts to their family for the entire week!

Not to mention my baby turned one! CRAZY! I have a 3 year old, a 2 year old and now a 1 year old.  I am surrounded by Toddlers and I wouldn't want it any other way! :)

I will be posting every day because we need to catch up!

Don't forget the Pigs from Pink Week, they are part of the farm week.

So now on to the Chickens.

Here is the link to the Print Out I printed out 8 as 3x5 prints so they were smaller.

Here is the link to The Little Red Hen

We read The Little Red Hen and then colored the hens/chick-hens. LOL

We identified parts of a chicken, and then cut out some hay.

Then glued our tie-dye chickens...

I lost the final picture it is on the other computer or my husbands laptop, because it certainly isn't on this laptop.  I will find it but this is the preliminary look.  It says something like "These two chickens say bock bock, they lay their eggs in the hay." We added eggs to the picture as well.  Picture it in your minds. :)

Day on the Farm

For REAL!

We went to a local Dairy supplier...we get out milk delivered round these parts!

They had an open petting farm for kids to see and feed animals with.

In Colorado you can go to White Fence Farms, or Karl's Dairy like we did. Longmont Dairy doesn't do tours anymore otherwise we would have gone there since that is who delivers our milk.

the best thing about this little trip is that it was FREE! Contact your local Dairys or 

Farms and see if you can tour today!