Today is National Sugar Cookie Day. In honor of it, we had some friends over to decorate, bake, and of course eat sugar cookies. First, the kids decorated cookies to be baked.
While those cookies were in the oven, they decorated previously baked cookies with edible markers, icing, and sprinkles.
The party was a great success. I think the kids would have eaten sugar cookies for lunch if they could have!
Flag Day was at the beginning of our week, so we made our letter F accordingly.
Molly had a great time rolling, and pressing her thumb into our chocolate peanut butter fudge buttons. She had to be reminded to be gentle when pressing, or her she'd press her thumb right through!
I hosted a playdate to create wacky foam snakes by blowing air through a simple, homemade bubble-making device. I found the idea in my Family Fun magazine.
We took a field trip to a local farmer's market. The favorites from the loot? Blueberries, raspberries, and honey whole-wheat bread.
We made several Father's Day cards during the week, and even went to a friend's house to make a special card for Daddy.
And finally, we read The Very Lonely Firefly.
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I hosted a playdate to create wacky foam snakes by blowing air through a simple, homemade bubble-making device. I found the idea in my Family Fun magazine. The kids dipped bottles into bubble solution,
used their little lungs to blow into the bottle,
to make a foam snake appear out the bottom.
Our normal Saturday soccer practice was cancelled due to a tournament going on. This was supposed to be Simon's first Saturday joining us, so we improvised and met them at the field nearby to have a bit of a soccer practice of our own. Zach had to keep moving the goal away from them, for reasons that will become apparent in the next picture.
Once Zach set down the goal, the kids decided it was more fun to play in it than to play soccer. They did this over and over when the goal was out.
It wasn't just 3 year olds and dads out there. Moms and little sisters joined the fun as well.
May 13th was National Apple Pie Day. So, what better way to celebrate than to have a playdate to honor the day. We began with a reading of Dr. Seuss's Ten Apples Up on Top.
We then made adorable yarn apples.
And topped off our celebrating by eating mini apple pies.
Leah was actually awake to play with the other younger siblings. This picture had to be captured very quickly since they didn't stay put very long!
We made an R for rabbit. At dinner that night, Molly was asked what letter she made. She responded with "R," and then when asked what animal it was she excitedly answered, "A bunny!"
This project took a few days to complete. Molly didn't quite grasp the idea of coloring the entire rainbow arch the correct color. She just wanted to color the number. She eventually came back to it and at least got half the rainbow colored.
Molly worked on her fine motor skills by lacing beads on to pipe cleaners,
then we arched them to make our own bead rainbow!
We met some friends at Rita's Italian Ice for a sweet treat during R week. Allison's Italian ice must not have been enough; looks like she wants a taste of Molly's custard too!
We ended our week working on some math skills. First we did rainbow clip counting,
then worked on rainbow size sorting. Molly did really well comparing the sizes of the rainbows so we could put them in order.
This week I also hosted a playdate to make felt flower hair clips so that we were all ready to show our pretty May flowers! These girls sure do love each other!
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I hosted a playdate to make felt flower hair clips so that we were all ready to show our pretty May flowers! Each of the kids made two and then were off to play. I saw that Molly was still at the table and realized that she was glueing the rest of the flowers together all by herself!
This is what happens when you ask three year olds to hug to pose for a picture!
The big kids were sweet to make hair clips for their little sisters too.
Leah was taking a nap during most of the playdate, so I had the girls model their new hair clips together.
Molly has proudly worn her flower hair clips for days now. We've even found them in bed with her!
Edit: This project is super easy! Cut two different size flowers out of contrasting felt. Stack the flowers and sew a button on top. I had the kids glue the pieces together so they had more to do than just pick out colors. Then hot glue on to your choice of clip. Happy crafting!
We began our T week reading The Little Engine That Could,
then making our T for train.
Molly's concenrating very hard inserting toothpicks into dotted shapes.
We met some friends for a playdate at a recycled tire playground to celebrate Earth day.
Molly continued to celebrate Earth Day by creating her own Spring tree.
We finished our week with some turtle learning. This was Molly's first experience with size sorting. She did well, but we'll definitely work on this again.
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The girls and I met some friends for a playdate at the recycled tire playground at Patapsco Valley State Park to celebrate Earth day.
The slides (and trading sunglasses!) were the big hit of the day.
Keira, Molly, Sadie, and Lucy loved swinging on the tire swing all together!
And although not pictured, all four younger siblings were really there. Next time, we'll make sure to get a picture of their smiling faces too!
I chose to concentrate on the letter C this week because of all the clover activities I could do around St. Patrick's Day, and we didn't even do any of them!
We started our week by reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar,
and then creating our C for Caterpillar. Apparently Molly thought the caterpillar needed whiskers like Daddy! (I saw this idea at Explorations in Learning.)
Leah has started exploring a lot of Molly's toys and especially likes the "McComputer" (as Molly likes to call it!).
For our stART project, we read Spot Bakes a Cake.
We extended the story by baking cupcakes. I think we need a little more pouring practice! (I saw this idea at April Flowers.)
We decorated our cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day. Molly worked hard on "tap tapping" the sprinkles on top.
The rest of our week consisted of a lot of celebrations! First, St. Patrick's Day...
Then we celebrated the arrival of spring at the playground. I think Leah is a big fan of swinging, just like her sister. What do you think?!
And lastly a special trip to the zoo for Samson the baby elephant's 2nd birthday.
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