Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

This book is one of my all time favorites and is a must have for every home and school library! There are so many fun activities that you can do with this book, it is just amazing! We decided that we were going to make our names climb the coconut tree.

After reading and discussing the book, the kids each got a baggie full of letters. They picked out the letters of their name and glued them up the trunk of their coconut tree in order. After they glued on their names, they added leaves to the top. For three year olds, I would suggest letting them find the letters and glue them on in any order.

Playdough Fun

There wasn't anything too fancy about this activity: play dough and cookie cutters. The kids were having so much fun, that I snapped a few pictures just because they are so darn cute.

Hudson's face is cracking me up. Play dough cutting is hard work!

I was so proud of Skylar, she did her whole name with very little help.

Pasta Rainbows

This was a two part lesson that was a lot of fun. I got the idea for the lesson and the recipe for dying pasta from a great preschool in Utah. She is amazing, feel free to check out her site for more details about how to do the project (click here).

Day One: We broke in our new aprons by dying pasta together. They came in very handy because one of the bags started to leak when we started to shake it. We reviewed colors, talked about following recipes, and which primary colors mixed together to make secondary colors. Then we danced our hearts out to The Freeze by Greg and Steve while we shook our bags and mixed the pasta. (We All Live Together-Vol. 2 is an amazingly fun CD to own!)


Day Two: We used templates under wax paper to make rainbows using the pasta we had previously dyed.


Here's the final product! The kids did so well and made such great artwork.

Update

Hi parents! I wanted to give a quick update. I haven't been able to post anything for a while because I left my camera at my family's house over labor day weekend. I finally got it back this weekend, so be prepared for quite a few posts over the next couple of days to cover what we have done in the last two weeks. It's been a lot of fun!

Funny Story

So, I have been calling around trying to get emails and check phone numbers again because I "lost" the list we made at back to school night. I found it today! My 6 year old thought it was scratch paper and painted pictures on the back of it to send to her friend in the mail . I sure am glad I checked the envelope before I sent it off. Thanks for doing it all again anyway!