Elephant!

This past week we did the Letter E!

I did activities with Eggs and Elephants.

I got all my art idea's off of

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html

I LOVE this website!

We did the color by number. My printer was out of colored ink so I just took markers and

did the squares next to them. The kids LOVED doing this! Only the 3's and 4's

did this one. I gave the 1's a blank paper and crayons.

The next art activity we did was from Confessions of a Home Schooler was the Elephant Craft.

As you can see we did it a bit differently. I wanted all of the kids to be able to do

this one. So we used dot paint to color the elephants. The 3's and 4's were sure to stay inside the lines or close to it and the 1's did the whole paper. We then let them dry.

We finally got to finish them today! I cut the 1's and 3's Elephants while the 4's did there own.

I clued the 1's together and put the clue down for the 3's and 4's.They then placed the pieces.

Although I did cut the 3's pieces out I gave them the scraps to cut so they could still practice cutting!

What is your favorite art project?

(will post what else we did with the letter E another day!)

Life Lesson

Sometimes Life Lessons come from a paper fish bowl

 

Wouldn't it be nice if things worked out exactly how you

picture it in your head?

Sensory Bottles

I used to make Sensory bottles all the time and if you deal with kids 4 and under I am sure you have too! I used pop bottles but I feel like these get yellow over time and leak. I saw on Pinterest (http://southernthomas.blogspot.com/2011/08/discovery-in-water-bottle.html)

Somebody using clear water bottles.I decided to give it a try!

 I went to target and bought some

Water bottles. I found them in the workout section.

For the stuff in it I went to the dollar spot and the party section.

I later was given the idea to use the Naked Smoothie bottles.

They worked just as great and gave me an excuse

to be able to buy the yummy drinks!

Here is what I decided to put inside my bottles:

For this one I used rice and little cars being are letter

that week was C.

I used Elmer glue on these bottles but hot glue would also work.

For the Second bottle I used glitter and water.  If you have

it put some food coloring in or oil.

For the third bottle I used pom poms and rice.

I did this one because I wanted to work on colors with the one year olds

and counting with the older ones.

For the forth one I used monkeys and marbles.

This one was the kids favorite one!

And here is the box of things to do with the kids for the next day!

My morning went so much smoother being I had some new stuff for the one year olds

and also the preschoolers!

I made these bottles thinking it would be something fun the the one year olds but it turned out all the kids enjoyed it.

What have you done with your kids this week?

How to give new life to an old chair

I bought this chair for a dollar at a garage sale.
Bought  three cans of spray paint for 2.50 each at ACE

It was time for a new sewing chair!
The one I have now is on wheels and being
our basement floor is not even it makes sewing
even more difficult then it already is for me!
So When I drove by a garage sale and saw this I HAD to buy this. I think my husband thought I lost it!

I took off the seat and it was ready to spray paint

While I let the paint dry I worked on the seat.

I didn't take pictures of this process.
I bought some seat foam at Joann's and Cut it to size. I then took
some scrap fabric I had and cut that to size. Because I do not have
a staple gun I went ahead and used a hot glue gun......I really wished I had a staple gun!
But it worked alright.

Once The painting was done
I went ahead and screwed the seat back on!

I was pretty pleased how it turned out for my first time!

This picture makes it look better then what it really is. The fabric is pointing

out on the sides and the inside of the chair is not painted cause I ran out of

paint. I bought silver instead of gray for my third bottle....grrrrr. Being I was too lazy to

go back to the store I left it the way it was!

 I am just putting it down stairs where it is dark anyway!

The total project cost me about 7 dollars . It took about 2 hours

 because I had to wait for it to dry. So I was able to do little stuff in between. I spent about 15 min. on the seat itself.

If I would to do this project again I would first get the same color of spray paint :). I would also sand

down the chair and use regular paint and brush to give it a cleaner finish.

When it comes to the seat I would of taken more time to make sure all my edges were flat. I would also made sure I had a staple gun!

Overall I am VERY Happy with the chair. You know Being I had no clue what I was doing and probably did not do it even close to how you are actually to re-finish a chair.I have not had a chance to use it yet but every time I walk by it I smile :)