Today's Fun

Today we had a hard day. The kids seemed to be a little whiny and didn't want to do anything. I tried to get some songs going, a little Freeze Dance, and water balloon enticement. Nothing worked... huh, not even water balloons?? Come on guys, what do you want??? Do I have to stand on my head?? I sat down and we started to brainstorm some ideas... we decided to cut up some old cardboard boxes, bring out the glue and glitter glue, and have a nature treasure hunt.
We found sand, pine cones, bark, leaves, flowers, and rocks. We were excited and had fun showing each other what we found.

Here A finds some sand, he could have found a lot in the sandbox, but he likes getting it up off the ground. To cute.

Getting ready to go... there goes those markers.... by the end of the day they were full of sand and grass. But that's ok, we've got more :)

Here is the beginning of a Masterpiece... I think she changed it, added sand, and made a great mess!! But I am glad I got it at this stage... it is very beautiful.

Here D loved the glue. He had fun finding the nature items, but putting them on with glue was the best... I wish you could see his face, but just imagine a huge smile. "I can do more, Shell??"

"Yes D... go ahead, we have more." "Really, as much as I want??" "Yes, go ahead" and then a Huge smile and more squeezing...

Yup, more squeezing, and looking at each other's Masterpiece's for ideas... I think we have some great pieces....

Even the big kids got into the action....

I am not sure if this was his first creation or second, but he loved having fun with it!!

Another Master Piece




We then moved inside to work on some music. L got his "electric keyboard" out for the little guys... they thought it was a lot of fun to hear all the different kinds of sounds you could set up with the piano music.

Here our littlest one is showing us how she uses the piano on her toy... the big kids loved it... She always has an audience.

All in all we had a good day, the whining stopped and we had fun creating some fun art work. Tomorrow we finish up some of our 4th of July project... I found the two we are going to use from Trish at Preschool Playbook...You can find it HERE. We will be doing the Glitter Fireworks, and the Exciting Streamers... may have time to do the Tissue Paper Fireworks, but I am not sure I have any tissue paper left... we have had a lot of birthday parties this past week. So, go on over to Trish's Preschool Playbook, she has some really great ideas and I absolutely will use many of them... Thanks Trish!!!!

Fun, Fun, Fun

Having fun at daycare today!! We are enjoying the beautiful, hot weather and taking our work outdoors. We filled the pools, buckets & sensory tables and brought the art table outside and had some artsy fun!! We had paint and brushes for everyone, we created Red, White & Blue Masterpieces!! We added some glitter and made"fire work" shows on paper... the kids thought that was great fun. We talked about fire works and the sound of them going off. All but 2 yr old S remember fire works from last year... a lot was discussed during our work today.

Making a fun mess!!

Hum... this is a good color for me...

Very serious work... they talked about mixing the colors together and what colors they made.

Some chose not to mix colors... but Red, White & Blue prevail

How the colors mixed for one of our Artist's!!

We also had some serious sea shell washing going on. S was very intent in having her "pet" snake help her today. (Don't know if you can see it there in her left hand... pinky)

Taking a break from the hot weather and doing some swingin inside... the best money I ever spent. Our swing is used often everyday... for the fun of it, for quiet time alone, an island for pretend friends, or just good ol' swingin!!

2 little friends learning to share, discussing "things", taking turns, and making friendships...

I love my job :)

Fine Motor and scissor skills... making a 4th of July Star Windsock

We are off to a great week and I look forward to ending it with our Trip to The Lazy 5 Ranch and 4th of July picnic with the animals...